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The American-Israel Chamber of Commerce organised a big event at IBM in Atlanta to explore Israeli innovations around “Big Data” - an area of interest major corporations. C-B4, Personetics and SafePeak explained their solutions to the big issues of data warehousing and large databases.

Israel’s cooler for the Chemin chemical analyser was brought into action for the first time when the Mars Curiosity Rover began to analyse its first soil samples. The first results confirmed that some strange bright particles were of Mars origin and not debris from the landing.

(Thanks to NoCamels) Israel’s Flayvr is a free application that accesses your photo library and then automatically organizes your photos into separate albums and offers tools for quick, one-click sharing to social networks.

Israelis will soon be able to generate electricity independently, channelling electricity from solar panels directly into their homes. Eitan Parnass, director of Israel’s Renewable Energy Association, praised the Public Utility Authority decision. “This is the beginning of a revolution,” he said.

Representatives from both the Indian and Israeli governments, as well as leaders from around 50 Israeli renewable energy companies, gathered in Tel Aviv and agreed that India would be an ideal place for Israeli renewable energy innovators to take their business.

There used to be tremendous hostility to Israel on UC Irvine’s campus. But earlier this month over 300 attended “From Bluetooth to Brain Waves: the extraordinary ways we'll communicate in 2025” - the launch event of a 2-day Communications and IT conference in association with Tel Aviv University.

The Cleantech Group has ranked Israel as second in its 2012 Global Cleantech Innovation Index. With six companies in the Global Cleantech 100 list, it even beats the “top” country Denmark, which has only two companies in the top 100.

(Thanks to Israel21c) Israel’s Flow Industries makes an ‘air gun’ for clearing industrial blockages, and it may also provide a better way to extract shale oil. Instead of the potentially polluting water or acid used in “fracking”, Flow Industries can use Nitrogen, Oxygen or even compressed air.

Israel’s Silicom said that design win for the SETAC-derivative 1-Gbps and 10-Gbps fiber bypass modules was from the security division of one of the world’s largest server manufacturers. The company's SETAC products make servers more modular.

The Argentinean government hosted a seminar in Buenos Aires about innovative technology in Israel. Israel was described as a role model for South American nation. Saul Singer, co-author of the best-selling book “Start-Up Nation” was featured at the event.