iPhone and 10 Israel-related headlines from the week of June 14, 2009
Filed under: Breaking News, Cleantech, Information Technology, Mobile Web, New Ideas, Uncategorized, Web2.0, cloud computing
During the week of June 14, 2009, Israel was named a developed market which will be effective in 2010 and its economy was hit less hard due to the high tech industry. While the protests, demonstrations and online activity heated up in Iran, Israel’s Fring announced that its software was being used by several protesters and helping their cause. Inside Israel, the biggest news was that the iPhone from Apple will finally be coming to Israel officially. For these stories and the rest of this week’s 10 Israel-related headlines check below.
Cleantech
1. The Next Solar Frontier: Distributed Inverter Architecture
Investments
3. Israeli exports hit less thanks to high tech
4. Israel Named Developed Market at MSCI, Korea Isn’t
Information Technology
5. Storage Startup Axxana Announces the Availability of the Phoenix System
7. Iranian protesters using Israeli software
8. Blue Coat ProxyClient Software Gains OESISOK Certification
Miscellaneous
9. Israeli carriers line up to sell iPhone
10. Coca Cola Israel develops new flavor
19 Israel-related headlines from the week of January 25, 2009 (HYPick Bonus)
Filed under: Advertising, Cleantech, Company Briefs, Data Storage, Environment, IT management, Information Technology, Israeli Websites, Mobile Web, Telecomunications, VC, Video, Web2.0, cloud computing, data security
Cleantech and Environment
1. ‘Israel has no plan for water economy past 2010′
2. Better Place Raises Financing for Denmark Electric Car Project
3. BrightView Secures $6 Million From Israel Cleantech Ventures and Hasso Plattner Ventures
Investments, M&A and Economy
4. Number of laid-off Israelis set new high in December
5. SAP cuts likely to reach Israel
6. MyThings Acquires ViewScore
Information Technology
8. Waterfall Security Solutions to Attend the 2009 DistribuTECH Conference
9. Cordys Award-Winning Process Factory(TM) Now Available as Community Platform Free of Charge
10. IBM to expand Israeli XIV production facilities
11. How flash is changing storage (Axxana)
Web 2.0
13. Peer39 matches online content to advertiser’s message
14. Time to Headup
15. Interview : HYPick – hype a topic
16. Email: 2Pad Grabs Media Attachments from Your Webmail Accounts
17. MocoSpace a Global Top 10 Social Network on Mobile
Miscellaneous
18. Mobile TV chip co Siano wins major Chinese deal
19. Free Internet-Calling Services for Cellphones (Fring)
Bonus: HYPick.com
If you want to know what the hype is– the real hype and not just what people vote on by clicking–check out HYPick.com. Founded by Oren Todoros, HYPick is the anti-Digg-type site that determines the top content based on user comments and views and not ranking, like Digg. Todoros recently sat down with Ezra Butler of LuckyStartups to discuss HYPick. See what the hype is for yourself with this video.
You can add to Israel’s technology hype, by joining in on Israel Innovation 2.0 HYPick.com discussions, such as this one.
24 Israel-related technology headlines from the week of April 13, 2008
Filed under: Cleantech, Company Briefs, Data Storage, Telecomunications
This past week saw PLYmedia named Israel’s most promising Internet start-up of 2008 by Microsoft, and HP unveil plans for startup incubation. The Internet was abuzz with Fring making unlocked iPhones now VoIP accessible and EyeBlaster’s and Dapper’s joining to do the mash… up. Oh yeah, and for those who missed my previous post, IBM continued its data storage solutions providers shopping spree, with its purchase of Diligent Technologies for an estimated $200 million. For a link to details on this latest acquisition and the rest of this past week’s 24 Israel-related
technology headlines, check out the list below.
Cleantech
3. Project Better Place
Hollywood Premiere Of Award-Winning, New Documentary, “Water”
M&A and Investments
IBM buys Israel’s Diligent
Economy making venture capitalists cautious
Information Technology
TrusCont and CoakleyTech Announce the Launch of TrusCont Enhanced DVD-R Security Solution
HP Israel unveils plans for startup incubation
World’s First Single-Chip, Multi-Message,
Digital ChipCorder
Eyeblaster and Dapper Mash It Up Code Free
International
Microsoft names PLYmedia as Israel’s Most
Promising Internet Startup of 2008
Israeli firms shine in Red Herring ratings
WorkLight selected AS A WINNER for the Red herring 100 Europe 2008
TruMedia’s iCapture Wins Gold Medal at the Euro-Reklama Outdoor Expo
Telecom
Israel Wimax Pilot Moves to Next Stage
Motorola and FIRST Inspire Next Generation of Engineers
Israeli telecom firm Koor intends to buy stake in Tata Teleservice
Miscellaneous
Interview with BluePhoenix Solutions’ Chief Marketing Officer
Virtualization Start-Up to Present at Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City
ClickSoftware to Automate Scheduling and Mobile Workforce Management for Rogers Cable Communications
Sentrigo Executes on all Fronts in 2007, Priming Database Security
Leader for Continued Rapid Growth
About the author: Lisa Damast is the Membership
Manager of ebizQ.net and currently resides in Israel. Any questions or
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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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