Technology

New incident information platform helps when seconds count

NICE-Vision VP Marketing Nir Hayzler: “We enable the team to create an accurate picture and rapidly send it to all involved in the rescue process”.Catching criminals, saving injured people and dealing with many other emergency incidents can be faster and …

Revving up Israel’s automobile industry

“Israel has some of the best automotive technologies in the world,” says Paul Linden. He should know. Linden has over 20 years experience with some of the top car manufacturers, including GM, Ford and Toyota. Linden, a native of Toronto, …

Ginger’s spellchecker helps dyslexics get it right

For dyslexics, existing spellcheckers only catch 20 percent of mistakes.Spellcheckers on computer software did to language what calculators have done to math, unless you are one of the 15 percent of Americans who suffer from dyslexia. While Microsoft Word’s spellchecker …

Salio’s nanotechnology engine springs into life

Some scientists believe that nanotechnology is the future, and like the railroad and the industrial revolution to our ancestors, will affect every industry known to mankind. From healthcare, to the defense industry and the environment, nanotechnology operates at a very …

Picitup makes image searches picture perfect

Searching for the image: Picitup’s founders, Dan Atsmon (left), Alon Atsmon (right).There are billions of bits of text on the Internet – and without text search engines, chief among them Google, we’d be lost without direction in a sea of …

What next? An Israeli company helps you figure it out

Qmarkets aims to help small and medium sized companies find out what comes next in business.”It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” That’s what baseball great Yogi Berra once said. Noam Danon of Israeli startup Qmarkets, disagrees. Thanks …

An end to luggage hell

A better way to wait for your luggage: Easy-2-Pick’s device beeps as your suitcase emerges onto the carousel at the airport.We’ve all been there: Just off a long, hot flight, you stand exhausted at a luggage carousel, pushing and shoving …