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

On the surface, Israeli start-up Vidyatel’s mission is to prevent unauthorized use of copyrighted video content by people who don’t pay the copyright holder for the privilege of doing so. But Vidyatel has another, more important message for us: Stop being so lazy! You’re smart, creative and intelligent – and there’s no reason you can’t come up with original content for the videos you upload to services like Metacafe. Why stick that oh-so-lame “I’ll be back” clip in your video? What does Arnold Schwarzenegger have that you don’t, anyway?
Lazy or not, though, it’s time to stop using other people’s digital [...]
By David Shamah

I know a guy who likes to cook. Or, rather, liked to cook (past tense). Until he got married, of course.
You see, his wife won’t let him near the kitchen. He’s a child of the 70’s – meaning that he’s ‘liberated’ in the Gloria Steinem sense – and has no problem doing all that kitchen stuff; he’s even willing to do the dishes. But that’s a no go at his hacienda; when he washes a dish, his wife complains that it isn’t clean enough, and she rewashes it!
Thanks to a new technology by Israeli startup XTR 3D, though, my friend [...]