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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
 Want to know about what makes you – or your spouse, co-worker, competitor, or anyone else – tick? Upload their photo to Profiler1, where experts will tell you everything you need to know, using the art/science of Personology. Profiler1 is the first web service in the world that gets you in touch with Personolgy experts, for a personality analysis many say is far more accurate than that provided by graphology.
By David Shamah
 Thousands of people get sick with food poisoning each year, resulting in lost workdays, hospital stays, or, in some cases, long-term illness or even death. And even in cases where food is supposedly safe, it may still contain debilitating bacteria that, for all the government’s best intentions, still gets through to wreak havoc among the public.
All that could change, though, thanks to a new innovation by Israeli startup MS-Tech, which has developed a new “electronic nose” that can sniff out e.Coli and other bad stuff.
By David Shamah
 Who says the day of the dot com millionaire is past? Penina First just won a $250,000 prize package in cash and services for coming up with the most innovative web startup idea this year – Day-Job, a service that will allow people who are looking for short-term help to connect with a large workforce of temps who need some quick cash, but don’t want to make long-term job commitments.
By David Shamah
 In uncertain economic times, companies seek a safe business haven. And today, that haven is the U.S. government, which wants to help revive the economy by stimulating it. So how can Israeli companies get a piece of that action? What they really need is a friend to guide them along the path to contract success – and they may just find that friend in Beth Cohen
By David Shamah
 The winner of the Exit ‘09 hi-tech innovation contest gets a fantastic package of services worth $250,000! The startup chosen by fans and judges gets $100,000 in cash, and a package of services provided by some of the top companies in Israel worth $150,000.
By David Shamah
 Play4Skill’s ‘Domino Theory’ Has Turned the Company’s Dominoes Stars Site into the top domino site online. While massive multiplayer online games, like World of Warcraft, get most of the attention online, there is a large contingent of web surfers who respect tradition, who prefer to do their gaming the “old fashioned” way; playing games like – dominoes! And for them, Israel’s Play4Skill has developed the Dominoes Stars site, which brings the venerable pastime on-line, allowing users to find domino buddies to play with from around the world.
By David Shamah
 Like a startup, an R&D center is expected to be innovative, flexible, and to generate new investments for its owners, which essentially acts as a combined VC fund and angel for the R&D “startup.” And that’s how Avraham Credi, Director of the local Motorola Design Center and a Vice President of Motorola Israel, sees it.
By David Shamah
 He started working on the lightbulb in 1850, and by 1860 he already had a working device. In 1875, he came up with the idea of using carbonized thread instead of the paper filaments he had worked with before, ensuring that the bulb could generate light and heat without catching fire. He patented his idea in 1878, and the next year he started installing bulbs in homes and offices. By 1881, he started his own company, his springboard to fame and fortune. The rest is history; and that’s how we remember Joseph Swan.
Come again? Yes, it’s true: Swan is the [...]
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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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