12 Israel-related technology headlines from the week of November 23, 2008

November 30, 2008 by Lisa Damast
Filed under: Cleantech, Company Briefs, Industry pulse, Information Technology, Web2.0

Most news from the week of November 23, 2008 was dwarfed by the terrorist attacks that took place in Mumbai, India. The Israel-related technology headlines that did make it through included skepticism for Shai Agassi’s electric car company, Better Place, Magic Software’s new platform application and Israel’s latest Web 2.0 entrant, wePapers.com. For these headlines and more, check out this week’s 12 below.

Cleantech and Environment

1. Gadget that makes water from air!

2. Changing the Whole Auto Industry, Seriously?

3. Where Will the World’s Greentech Hub Be?

Investments and Economy

4. Experts: Failure to integrate Arabs costing Israel millions

5. Canada-Israel trade is up 45% so far in 2008

Information Technology

6. Magic Software Releases its Flagship Application Platform: uniPaaS Version 1.5, Now with .NET Rich Internet Client

7. PineApp Mail Encryption Solution Frees Up Users and Gives Control Back to the Business

8. Aladdin’s Cybercrime Investigation Facility

9. Worldwide Wi-Fi Social Network Takes Off

Miscellaneous

10. Spamming illegal in Israel from December 1

11. wePapers.com launched, aims to be the YouTube of academic papers and documents

12. U. of California to Reopen Study-Abroad Program in Israel

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.

*About the Weekly Headlines image: The Star of David in the image was found on Flickr and is used under the Creative Commons license. It was originally uploaded by Flickr member,zeevveez. The overall Weekly Headlines image was designed by Lisa Damast.

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