Daniel Shechtman becomes the fourth Israeli to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the 10th Israeli to win a Nobel.
Technology
How do you say ‘business is booming’ in Chinese?
The latest high-tech Israeli firms to set up shop in China are translation app-maker Lexifone and software developer Matrix Global.
Israeli business incubator launches in China
Rapidly growing Israel-China link includes new industrial initiatives and a plan to teach Israel studies at Chinese universities. The industrial park in Wujin, Changzhou, has two Israeli businesses and more to come. “Israeli businessmen are clever, hardworking and serious — …
Israel’s top 45 greatest inventions of all time
A new exhibit pays homage to Israeli ingenuity behind gadgets like the Disk-on-Key, PillCam, solar windows and a space camera. Photo courtesy of Bloomfield Science Museum “Inventors for a Day” tap into their creative side at the Inventions, Inc. exhibition …
High-definition TV over low-cost Internet
Cut the cable, lose the satellite dish: ZiXi’s streaming Internet TV platform is better and cheaper, and it’s made in Israel. Zixi CEO Israel Drori. Disconnect those cables. Take those unsightly satellite dishes off your roof. Everything your TV needs …
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Israeli University voted best place in world to work [video]
Israel’s Weizmann Institute has once again been singled out by The Scientist as one of the best places in the world for academics. There are only three instruments in the world like Dr. Michal Sharon’s mass spectrometer, which vaporizes large …
NovoSpeech allows devices to ‘hear’ clearly
Despite technological advances, automatic speech recognition has lagged behind, but now an Israel company offers a better solution for phones, GPS and other devices. Drivers using GPS devices with voice input can find themselves in the wrong location if the …
Top trending news on your iPad
No more wading through websites: Israel’s popular HitPad app brings automated news curation to the iPad. Main view. Lacking the sort of briefing staff enjoyed by presidents and prime ministers, most of us can’t get our daily news without wading …
Don’t worry, roam happy
Onavo crunches your data so you can download more for less, no matter where you’re using your cellular phone. Onavo co-founder Guy Rosen. The story goes that a little old lady from Pasadena went traveling in Europe. She used her …
GM’s engines rev up on Israeli ingenuity
At its R&D center in Herzliya, General Motors looks to Israeli engineers for tomorrow’s automotive technology, and invests in Israeli startups with exciting products to share. GM Israel site director Gil Golan and GM’s VP for R&D, Dr. Alan Taub, …
Peer39 helps web ads hit their target
When advertisers want their ads to end up on the right sites – and avoid the wrong sites – they turn to the semantic solution offered by Peer39. Peer39 execs from left, Alex White (VP Product and Account Management), Andy …