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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
 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
 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
 Ordering lunch into the office should be fun, not a chore – and Bite2Eat has developed a system that lets you enjoy your lunch, without the hassle. By enhancing the lunch experience, Bite2Eat may just make for happier, more productive workers – and give a boost to the restaurant industry as well, with eating establishments getting a new, low-cost way to market themselves and pick up business.
By David Shamah
 Maybe it’s the recession – but for some reason, care and compassion seem to be back in vogue. Just a short time ago, Donald Trump was considered a top role model – a businessman who had clawed his way to success, tough as nails, whose favorite line during his stint as a TV star was “you’re fired.” Nowadays, it’s not nice to be not nice, and millions who sucked at the font of hyper-materialism have returned to core values of community and caring. Unfortunately, though, they’re a little out of practice, having forgotten what it takes to give a damn.
That [...]
By David Shamah
 Traffilog believes that the best way to save gas – not to mention drivers’ lives, as well as cut down on vehicle maintenance costs – is to keep as close an eye on vehicles, while they’re out in the field. The Traffilog system features GPS, G sensors, and ECM systems that interface with the vehicles systems, reporting everything that happens back to an administrative server. From there, there, the information makes its way through filters and databases, analyzed for the relevant details needed by clients – who then get informed by e-mail, a Web interface, or SMS.
By David Shamah
 In the end, it’s the basic commodities that really count. Without a good computer, for example, all the hi-tech database programming tricks are just ideas in the head of a geek. And without a keyboard, you wouldn’t even be able to write a simple letter. Much less hang ten on that database!
That’s right: Keyboards are an important part of the tech revolution, too, and deserve to be recognized for their role. Lest you think, however, that there is little that can be done to technically improve the old workhorse, Raviv Orfeli of Holon-based IKBS-International Keyboard Solutions has some news for [...]
By David Shamah
 What do you do if you want to buy something from a store where they don’t take credit cards?
Pay cash, of course!
Okay, but what if you want to buy something really big – say, a car – and the person you’re buying it from doesn’t trust banks; no checks accepted, no credit cards, no nothing, Just plain old cash. And they live in a bad neighborhood – which makes you very nervous about shlepping around big amounts of cash. Now what?
The scenario I’ve just described is not some from the anti-bank gold bug Luddite playbook, but a reasonably realistic description [...]
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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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