Microsoft has chosen Israel’s N-Trig to provide the digital pen technology for its new Surface Pro 3 tablet computer.  N-trig provides high performance controllers and a variety of active pen types for touch-enabled smartphones, tablets and Ultrabook devices. http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2014/08/28/microsoft-picks-israeli-n-trig-for-new-surface-pro-3/

Students at Israel’s Technion are raising funds to support their project to develop the “Safie” – a biological system that detects very low concentrations of bacteria, unsafe chemicals, toxins, hormones and allergens in food and water.  Please help them to … Continue reading →

(Thanks to Atid-EDI) Don’t worry if you lose or break your smartphone.  With bleep-Smart from Israeli start-up Musers, your data is backed up every time you charge the phone’s battery.  Contacts, history, pictures, videos, WhatsApp – it’s all saved to … Continue reading →

(Thanks to Israel21c) Israeli start-up Zeek has built a crowdsourcing mobile app to help customers sell their unused gift certificates or store credit (at a discount) to those who can use them. The app also warns about expiry and your … Continue reading →

Ben Gurion University researchers have developed a new computer-based personality profiling methodology that can decipher the actual feelings of an individual.  When used to analyze speeches of Presidents Obama and Putin it produced some interesting assessments. http://nocamels.com/2014/08/putin-is-a-romantic-loner-and-obama-mistrustful-according-to-israeli-personality-algorithm/    http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/news/profile_personalities.aspx

Israel’s longest tunnel has been completed after 22 months of work. The tunnel forms part of the 57km (28 minutes) Jerusalem Tel Aviv rail link via Ben Gurion airport. A new station is under construction at the western entrance to … Continue reading →