During the week of October 5, 2008, Israel’s cleantech industry continued to make progress and headlines. The biggest cleantech story being that the Cleantech Group has partnered with the California Israel Chamber of Commerce. In telecommunications, JaJah which hasn’t made any significant headlines in the past few months, “re-emerged,” while in Trusteer made another announcement that caught attention. Of course, there was plenty of IT and financial crisis-related headlines making this week’s 14 Israel-related technology headlines as well. For the full list, scroll below.

Cleantech
1. Cleantech Group Partners With California Israel Chamber of Commerce

2. An electrifying solution for wastewater treatment

Information Technology
3. Zoran’s IPS(TM) Interpreter for XPS Earns Logo Certifications From Microsoft

4. JAJAH Gives Voice to Global Innovators

5. CopperGate Communications Named Most Promising Start-up in Israel

6. Beijing Website Aims at High Performance w/ Crescendo

Information Security
7. IBI: SAP profit warning danger to Israeli firms

8. PineApp Ltd. Positioned in Niche Player Quadrant for E-Mail Security Boundaries Magic Quadrant

9. Trusteer Receives “Best of the Web” Award from Online Banking Report

Miscellaneous
10. Israel’s booming hi-tech industry

11. Mobileye Answers Call for U.S. Driver Safety Solutions

12. ‘Universities can’t open academic year’

13. How many Israelis will lose their jobs due to financial crisis?

14. The Five Plagues of Israel: 5 reasons for the exceptionally low Q2 results

About the author: Lisa Damast is the Membership Manager of ebizQ.net and currently resides in Israel.  Any questions or inquiries regarding this blog or ebizQ membership services can be directed to her via email at ldamast (at) ebizq (dot) net. She can also be followed on Twitter, where she covers additional Israeli technology companies and Israel-related headlines and topics.

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