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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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