IsraelNewsletter.com Israel News 7/8/2008

Written by: Zack Miller | July 8, 2008

Jacada (JCDA) signs another material deal — this time it’s a follow-on deal with Nationwide Insurance.  According to the release, “This most recent contract extends the use of the Jacada solution to the Property and Casualty Direct Sales and Service group, to further automate and simplify access to customer, policy and billing information.”

Defense contractor Elbit Systems (ESLT) signed a $20 million deal to supply its Hermes unmanned air vehicles (UAV) to an unnamed European country.  The agreement is for air vehicles and ground systems to be delivered in 2009, according to Reuters.

Motorola, a strategic partner of NICE Systems (NICE), announced the receipt of an order on behalf of Denmark’s Interior Ministry.  The order is for an integration of NICE Inform, the firm’s multi-media incident information management solution in an effort to consolidate radio-over-IP content from the Danish public safety network.

Speaking of NICE, NICE’s Actimize division also announced a deal with partner Unisys in Singapore which would have Actimize’s transaction surveillance system installed at Singapore’s largest financial institution, DBS.  Actimize’s system analyzes transactions and recognizes potentially suspicious patterns across a bank’s product channels.  DBS is the first bank in Asia to install such a system on an end-to-end, cross-border, and bank-wide basis.

 

The secret to mobile social networking

Written by: Zack Miller | February 14, 2008

Using a similar framework to O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 definition, let’s first define what Mobile 2.0 is all about. Once we define what is is, we can discuss applications for social network over mobile.phone_call

Mobile 1.0 vs. Mobile 2.0
ringtones, ringbacks <—> Vringo (video caller ID)
reading <—> publishing/participating
pull <–> push
connected to PC enivonment <–> connected to my web environment
411 <–> Google411
GPS <–> Google Maps
p2p <–> p2community
Dodgeball <–> facebook, android
casual gaming <–> networked gaming

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