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By David Shamah
When the GSM Association – sponsors of next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – hands out awards, it splits the world into four regions, presenting top prizes to the world’s best cellphone technologies and applications made by companies that hail from each region. Two companies are chosen from each region – the Americas (North and South), Asia Pacific (India, Korea, Singapore, etc.), EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) – and Israel. Like a medieval map of the world showing Jerusalem as its center, Israeli hi-tech advocate Yael Shany says that “according to the GSMA, Israel is a continent [...]
By David Shamah
 For the first time, IT departments can trace the “dots” that lead to problems in their computer systems or networks, from the first click by a user on a PC, following the results of that click throughout the chain of servers, databases, and applications it goes through until an action takes place. Correlsense’s patented SharePath system is the only one in the world that shows administrators how the IT dots connect!
By David Shamah
 Cellphone and Internet engineers have been facing a major dilemma in recent years – reminiscent of another dilemma faced in an earlier era by peanut butter and chocolate engineers: How can two totally different user experiences be integrated successfully, enabling both to perform at the best of their ability?
Peanut butter cups – that delicious melding of two completely different but oh-so-satisfying tastes – merged together to make a luscious new creation greater than the sum of its parts. They are an apt metaphor for the challenges faced by cellphone and Internet engineers when it comes to displaying “real” Web pages [...]
By David Shamah
 If you can watch content for free on TV, and listen to content for free on the radio, why can’t you talk content for free on the phone? For some reason, we were raised to believe that phone calls were “expensive,” because of those monthly we get from the phone company, but that TV shows and music were “cheap,” because we got them for free. Of course, actors and singers don’t work for nothing; TV and radio exist because they sell advertising to offset the costs, enabling us consumers to get the content we want to see and hear for [...]
By David Shamah
 If you run say, a public utility like the gas company with gas valves all over town, how do you keep track of them?
Get a lot of eyes, that’s how! And indeed, not too long ago, that’s the way managers responsible for large deployments of electronic, computerized, or other devices had to manage security – by sending people into the field to do a “sweep” of the conditions of their equipment. The drawback with such a system is obvious – you have to spend a lot of money paying those eyes, and by the time they get around to checking [...]
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All articles appeared in the Jerusalem Post, written by me, David Shamah. Questions or comments? Write me at
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