Israel is a powerhouse of ingenuity and innovation, boasting the largest number of startups in the world per capita.The abundance of startup companies in Israel is an outgrowth of the country’s high concentration of engineers in its workforce and government encouragement of entrepreneurship. Israeli high-tech has been made famous for startup innovations such as Internet …
Continue reading “Venture Capital investments in Israel in 2005”
Pain can be mysterious, untreatable and debilitating, and its causes can be unknown. But if you could see the pain — or, at least, your brain’s reaction to it — you might be able to master it. Source: Wired News A study from researchers at Stanford University and MRI technology company Omneuron suggests that’s possible, …
Microsoft’s long running request for an interactive TV patent has been granted, reports The Register. The patent, which Microsoft originally applied for in 1993, enables the company to develop and market technology that allows television viewers to pause programmes to follow on-screen hyperlinks and participate in games, chat rooms and other interactive services. Source: PhysOrg.comThe …
Two Israeli companies are behind the technology of U.S. company Nuance Communications’ new software that enables the vision impaired to have easy access to cell phones. Source: Haaretz Nuance is utilizing the technologies of two firms it acquired – ART and Phonetic Systems – to substantially increase the size of on-screen content on handheld mobile …
Continue reading “Israeli firms behind cell phone software to aid vision impaired”
The REAPS (Rotorcraft External Airbag Protection System) developed by RAFAEL Armament Development Authority Ltd. successfully performed in a series of tests last month as part of Phase II of the Concept and Technology Demonstration program contracted by the US Navy. Source: RAFAEL (Armament Development Authority) The REAPS, is a one-of-a kind external airbag system, attached …
Continue reading “Rafael’s Airbag Protection for Helicopters Proves Maximum Survivability”
Japan will budget 215 billion dollars over five years to maintain its reputation as a scientific powerhouse amid fears it is losing its technological edge, officials said. Source: Physorg Japan’s Nobel laureates and the Japan Business Federation had launched a campaign to press the government for the funding despite a cost-cutting drive under Prime Minister …
Continue reading “Japan devotes billions to keeping edge in science”
Chuck Jaffe of MarketWatch discourages average investors from investing in today’s early nano fund: “It’s not that nanotechnology is a bad business or that exchange-tradedfunds are a poor idea. It’s that the combination of the two, at this point intime, can’t deliver what investors like Roger really want, namely an intensefocus on this emerging technology.” …
Google a topic, and the results are based on popularity, right? Wrong. Inside the shadowy world of ‘SEOs.Source: Newsweek (By Brad Stone) Dec. 19, 2005 issue – Three years ago, the web site of Oppedisano’s Bootery, an 81-year-old shoe store in the amiable upstate village of Honeoye Falls, N.Y., was receiving a scant 100 visitors …
By: Mark MillertonSource: Articles Dashboard As 2005 draws to a close, I am overwhelmed by the amount of Web 2.0 startups that this year brought. There were no doubt hundreds or perhaps thousands of new services that came about following on the trend of “Web 2.0”. Developers are beginning to create apps that are truly …
Continue reading “Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005”
Source: Dilbert
