Israeli app for team-building
Israeli startup Strayboots provides mobile experiences for corporate team building, group adventures and city exploration. It has set up scavenger hunts and other activities in over 50 cities worldwide and is used by more than 1000 companies, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Nike.
Your computer can really help you
Israeli startup Ai Type offers computer users personal assistance based on keywords in the messages they type. For example, type “I have to collect my kids early” and Ai Type can offer to connect you to a cab company.
AT&T’s Israeli TV app
US telecomms giant AT&T has launched DirectTV - a new TV project, in which content from 120 channels is streamed to the web. The app (for Apple and Android in the US) was developed by AT&T’s Israel R&D center, which was formed when AT&T took over Israeli startup Interwise in 2007.
Water summit in Las Vegas
The BusinessH2O Summit in Las Vegas on Dec 12 features Governors, CEOs, academics and a veritable “who’s who” of Israeli water experts. They will discuss best practices in corporate water stewardship and public policies to address the growing demand for water.
$4 million for joint US-Israel renewable energy projects
The BIRD (Binational Industrial Research and Development) Foundation announced $4 million grants for five joint Israeli-US renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. Israeli beneficiaries are BrightSource, CelDezyner, Solview, Waves Audio and the Technion.
Israel to boost solar energy production
Israel’s Public Utility Authority is to issue more than 1,000 megawatts of fresh solar energy development quotas. It is to ensure that Israel achieves its goals of making 10% of the country’s electricity supply renewable by 2020.
Russian PM visits Israeli agro-tech center
Dmitry Medvedev and his delegation were more interested in Israeli agriculture technology than politics on the Russian Prime Minister’s November trip to Israel. They visited the Volcani Center in Beit Dagan, one of the world’s most advanced facilities for agriculture research.
Solar-powered desalination
Israeli startup Tethys has developed a direct solar-powered desalination system that produces drinking water using energy from direct sunlight.
CNN discovers Israeli that reinvented the wheel
CNN’s Oren Liebermann has written about three Israeli Innovations that will revolutionize the planet. They are Softwheel’s wheel with built-in suspension, Mobileye’s autonomous vehicle technology and Aquarius’s replacement for the combustion engine. (video is of Softwheel).
System to avoid mid-air collisions
Israel Aerospace's new Collision Warning System (CWS) alerts pilots of military aircraft of an imminent potential collision with commercial aircraft. The system gives a voice warning and two separate visual display warnings.