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 Nordmenn Verden Rundt brings together Norwegians across the globe with social media By Christy Olsen Field Norwegian American Weekly Facebook is more than a digital photo album of what your kids did last weekend. Facebook provides a virtual meeting space for people across the globe to share similar interests, activities and heritage.We discovered a [...]  Imagine a navigation system that works where GPS signals don’t. With its new “Campus Guide”, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is now the first university in the world where you can navigate from inside a building using a mobile phone. Both students and visitors often get lost on [...]  The sunshine in Iron County will become electric when a Norwegian company fires up a solar project expected to be the largest in Utah, if not the country. The North America division of Oslo-based Scatec Solar plans to invest up to $500 million in the project, which would place photovoltaic panels [...]  Statoil and Siemens have signed a technology development cooperation agreement. The partnership will initially embrace wind power, subsea technology, electrical engineering technology and energy efficiency measures. Cooperation between the companies facilitates the development of future path-breaking technology. Based on complementary user needs and technological opportunities we aim at developing technological solutions that contribute to [...] The connection between a Norwegian company, a top-ranked American Public University, wounded soldiers, and brown seaweed might be hard for the common eye to decipher, but for the Norwegian biopharmaceutical company, AlgiPharma AS, the answer is as clear as a million bucks, or rather make that $1.6 million. The 2010 Fiscal Year US Defense Appropriations [...]  Norwegian companies in the Scandinavian Pavilion at premier Biotech Conference John Erik Stacy, Norwegian American Weekly, May 28, 2010 “Bio” is the simple title adorning the premier conference for the biotech industry. This year the conference was held in Chicago in the first week of May and attracted thousands of delegates and exhibitors from nations [...]  Researchers at the Norwegian Radium Hospital develop new instrument for real-time detection. John Erik Stacy, Norwegian American Weekly, May 21 2010 The Biomolex 700 is an “imager” developed by researchers at the Norwegian Radium Hospital and now in use at leading labs around the world. Håvard Hauge, managing director of the Biomolex company, sees [...] Google Inc. and the Norwegian-owned company Global IP Solutions (GIPS) Holding AB announced May 18 that they have entered into a transaction agreement. Under the agreement Google Acquisition Holdings Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Google, will make a recommended voluntary public cash offer to acquire all the issued and to be [...] Following the introduction of the Choice Screen in Europe, Opera Software is experiencing a dramatic uptake on downloads of its latest browser, Opera 10.50. After the Choice Screen launch in early March, on average, more than half of the European downloads of Opera’s latest browser come directly from the Choice Screen. “This confirms [...] The Norwegian research council model is the result of an innovative reform carried out in the 1990s. Is the model functioning as intended? A public evaluation of the Research Council’s activities is in the works to find out. Arvid Hallén, Director General of the Research Council, is looking forward to the evaluation. It will assess [...] |
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