FEELING depressed because you missed out on Google’s stock bonanza? Not to worry. Just get on the company’s shadow payroll. Source: NY Times Hundreds of thousands of people have essentially done just that by starting blogs, forums or other informational…
With decades of experience managing this precious natural commodity, it hopes to become the Silicon Valley of water-management tech Source: BusinessWeek online For decades, water has been an extremely precious commodity in Israel. And over the years, the Jewish state…
GOOGLE’S online satellite pictures may have opened a new area for advertisers to boldly go where none have gone before. Source: The Inquirer Call Target immediately and tell them you have a rooftop just waiting to be painted—for just a…
The PillCam, a video capsule that patients swallow, helps doctors evaluate gastrointestinal conditionsOnce swallowed with water, the PillCam takes about 2,600 color pictures inside the body. After 20 minutes, the doctor can evaluate the video images and make a diagnosis.Source:…
Think it’s tough getting local advertisers to embrace Internet advertising? Try TV advertising. The complexities and cost of producing a video and buying air time are too daunting for most small business owners. Spot Runner, a start-up that comes out…
Integrity Applications’ GlucoTrack is a non-invasive, triple cross-checking device for measuring blood glucose levels.Diabetes now affects approximately 7% of the world’s population. As of today, over 190 million people have diabetes, and the disease is spreading worldwide. The World Health…
WASHINGTON–The risks posed by nanomaterials remain largely unknown, but now is the time for the U.S. government to begin drafting regulations addressing the tiny particles, a former Environmental Protection Agency official said.Source: (click for PDF), J. Clarence Davies, who served…
Newsvine is a news bookmarking-social network-digg kind of service. I am mentioning the site since it’s the first serious try to create one big blogging network based on news analysis and commentary. The great majority of stories you read on…
Texas Instruments performance audio manager Dave Maples: DOC H-series presents an attractive, easy-to-integrate storage solution. Source: Globes M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers (Nasdaq: FLSH) has announced that Texas Instruments (TI) has integrated M-Systems’ DOC H-Series embedded flash drive (EFD) into its…
Fortune smiled on Israeli high tech in 2005. Source: GlobesThe improvement in economic and security was a favorable factor. A window of opportunity for Nasdaq issues emerged, despite the draconian provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US. Foreign companies…
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