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By David Shamah
 Israel’s N-trig is a world leader in touchscreen technology for laptops, and by the end of 2010, the company expects to ship tens – if not hundreds – of thousands of its DuoScreen LCD touchscreen overlays each month. It’s no wonder that some of the biggest laptop makers in the world have beat a path to N-trig’s Kfar Sava offices to work with the company.
By David Shamah
 Israeli startup Covertix makes sure that only the “right people” – in the “right places” – get to read your sensitive documents. When a Covertix “self-protected file” gets distributed, you know who read it and where, and what they did with it. Thus, you get to keep an eye on your intellectual property even when it’s in someone else’s hands. Just like there are rules for network access, there are now rules for accessing documents, so you know that your information is being viewed by the people who are supposed to be seeing them, when they’re supposed to be seeing them.
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
 The digital future is now. The technology exists to allow a complete digital video experience, over the network – meaning that at home, you’ll be able to build your dream digital entertainment system, with TV and movies delivered to your networked TV (via your HD entertainment system). You don’t need DVDs, and you don’t have to fuss with the cable or satellite box anymore.
Yes, indeed, the technology is here – but the reality of the fully wired high definition entertainment experience still seems to many a distant dream, at least based on the way it’s been progressing. But it’s not [...]
By David Shamah
 In unity, there is power. When the people are one, they present a formidable force, one that realizes benefits for each person to a far greater extent than could have been achieved through individual effort. The people, united, will never be defeated.
Yeah, right. Sounds like psychedelic-60’s silliness to our ennui-engulfed 21st century ears. Regardless, though, there’s no doubt about it: There is strength in numbers, and when every member of a group works towards the same goal, powerful forces – more powerful than anyone could have imagined – can be marshaled for the benefit of all.
And while getting different-minded people [...]
By David Shamah
 Getting into the iPhone App Store is a big deal; not everyone is admitted. There are currently about 1,000 applications in the App Store – more than double the number offered when it first opened on July 11 – but Apple still intends to keep things under control, admitting only “quality” applications.
It’s not an easy club to get into – and so far, only one Israeli company has made the cut. Pageonce, billed as the first “Personal Internet Assistant,” now has an iPhone/iTouch application, called iOnce – as of today, the only Israeli-developed application in the App store, the company [...]
By David Shamah
 Mobixell may be Israel’s biggest little secret in the country’s mobile phone industry, a pioneer in the newish cellphone advertising industry: The company recently celebrated the occasion of its 500 millionth user of the technology it supplies to 300 cell phone service providers/mobile operators worldwide. For a company barely eight years old, that’s a lot of users – and it goes to show how important Mobixell’s products are to advertisers in the world of cellphones.
Mobixell enables quick, efficient, and unobtrusive delivery of video content to cellphones – the exact thing that advertisers are interested in. And the company’s main efforts, [...]
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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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