ISRAEL21c is giving away six copies of this year’s runaway hit, the book Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, in a special prize giveaway designed especially for our readers. Start-up Nation, written by Saul Singer and Dan Senor …
Technology
Pango puts you in a parking spot in NYC
The Israeli app takes the headaches out of finding a place to put your car in the Big Apple and other US cities, with more to come.
Start-Up Nation analyzes Israel’s ‘secret sauce’
Israel’s extraordinary high-tech successes result from a combination of military-inspired innovation and an immigrant’s propensity for risk-taking, a new book concludes. Photo courtesy of Ariel Jerozolimski “The world needs innovation; Israel’s got it,”:Saul Singer, co-author of Start-Up Nation. The …
Bringing old world branding to internet sales
Israel’s Webcollage is helping companies like Target, Kodak and Radio Shack to sell their products online using tried and true retail point-of-sale techniques on websites. At US store Sears, products sold using Webcollage technology showed a 22 percent increase …
A neat trick for scheduling meetings
By combining mobile technology with a voting system, Israeli start-up Neatcall may have just the solution to all the time wasted playing telephone and e-mail tag. New startups have the best shot at success when they address a “pain …
FasterWeb eliminates the “world wide wait”
FasterWeb knows how much you value your time. That’s why this Israeli start-up has designed an application that connects you to websites faster, avoiding the usual bottlenecks. While all of us know what www really stands for, there are …
Your handwriting never lies
A computerized system developed by Israeli scientists can detect if people are lying, just by analyzing their handwriting. When you tell a lie, you don’t just give yourself away with your voice, but with your writing too, according to new …
Israel presents the world’s smallest medical camera
The tiniest medical camera in the world, invented by an Israeli company, measures 0.05 inches, is cheap to produce and should eliminate the need for m
Tigo Energy monitors the power from the sun
Voted one of the world’s most promising clean tech companies, Israeli-US company Tigo Energy says its key contribution is its innovative technology for managing solar systems. Despite the cutting-edge science invested in solar energy, some aspects of the industry lag …
Double-check that DNA
An Israeli life science firm proves that DNA does not indisputably tie suspects to a crime scene after all, and develops a test to authenticate it. Until just a few weeks ago, DNA evidence was considered by legal and judicial …
Keeping your data off-limits to prying eyes
By tinkering with the screen display rather than the file, IBM Israel’s new data masking technology lets companies keep confidential data concealed, even from their own workers. The problem with security is that it isn’t always so secure, admits Chani …