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If you search for anything on a smartphone running the new Firefox operating system, it will fire up the software from Israeli start-up Everything.me. Then things really happen as it loads applications dynamically to show you everything you might want, in connection with your search.

Israel’s Pumpic is for those who frequently want to share large numbers or high quality photos with their friends and colleagues. Users can send up to 10,000 images - each up to 100 MB in size - instantaneously. Pumpic has just raised $700,000 in its first round of financing.

Two Israeli companies Cellebrite and CommuniTake are working together to establish a service that can diagnose and repair smartphones whilst still in the hands of the customer.

Eight Israeli companies received the Red Herring's Top 100 Europe Award, given to Europe's leading private companies in recognition of their innovations and technologies. They were Celeno, Modelity Technologies, MyThings, NLT Spine, Phinergy, Somoto, Valens and WalkMe.

A rare positive article in the New York Times about one of Israel’s top education institutes. It features an Israeli-Arab student – one of the 20% of Arabs at the Technion.

Israel’s high-tech industry - in the form of the Israel Advanced Technologies Industry group - threw a huge Independence Day party for hundreds of guests in Tel Aviv. Representatives of 17 R&D labs of multinational companies, including Intel, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo, HP, Oracle and Philips talked about the innovations, accomplishments, and contributions they make to their parent companies.

This is the definitive list of Israel’s inventions. It includes the solar water heater, amniocentesis testing, drip irrigation, desalination, unmanned drone aircraft, 8088 and Centrino computer chips, RSA encryption, Quasicrystals, instant messaging, Pillcam, the flash drive, ReWalk and a whole lot more.

(Thanks to NoCamels.com) Israeli start-up NowForce has developed a replacement for expensive emergency call centers. It comprises a distress signal app for the smartphone; an app for the rescue worker (including paging and directing); finally, a dispatch center back-end solution. In the Missouri police department NowForce has cut response times to one sixth of those experienced previously.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology conducted a survey of 61 experts from 20 countries who voted Israel’s Technion as the world’s sixth highest in the league chart of entrepreneurship and innovation in higher education institutions. Israel came third in the national chart.

Israeli agri-tech start-up MiRobot has developed “the greatest thing to happen in dairy farming in 100 years” – an automated milking machine. At a fraction of the cost of competitors, MiRobot is finishing the development of a working demo and seeking to raise funds in order to go into full production.