Written by: Aaron Katsman | February 24, 2009
There is no topping Israeli ingenuity, and at the recent Mobile World Congress, held in Barcelona, once again an Israeli company showed why. Emoze, one the title for best new email application. According to Ynet: “Emoze developed a push mail application that allows users to receive emails to their mobile devices in real time. Once an email account has been defined, the application automatically updates the email inbox on the cellular phone, without any action on the side of the user. A similar application exists for Blackberries. This new development gives similar capabilities to most cellular devices. The basic service is accessible for free and supports one email account. There is also a pay version that offers the option to connect to multiple email accounts simultaneously.”
This could create competition for the Blackberry, as it will enable users to perform similar functions on the cell phone.
Congratulations on the award.
Written by: Aaron Katsman | July 31, 2008
With the summer Olympics set to start in a week, an Israeli start-up that monitors water quality just took gold. Blue I Technologies has been selected by Chinese officials to monitor water quality of the pools for the competition. Though they thought they were out of the running, the Chinese weren’t happy with their competitors results and turned to the Israeli start-up and awarded them the contract.
According to a report in Globes, Blue I CEO Tsur Ben-David said, “We thought it was over. We didn’t think that we’d find a place in the Olympics. The pools were under construction and a top German company had won the contract to supply the water quality monitoring systems for four variables, while a US company was supposed to monitor two other variables. But the Chinese were dissatisfied with the results and turned to us five months ago. This contact initiated a process that ended with our systems undergoing a two-month pilot at the Olympic facilities and we were selected to monitor all six variables.”
This has caused a ripple effect (nice pun) as the company has gained a lot of attention and even the Chinese Ministry of Health has contacted them in order to learn more about their water quality solutions.
While no Israeli swimmer or diver is expected to medal in the upcoming games, it’s good to know that Israeli ingenuity and know how will play an important part of the competition.
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Written by: Aaron Katsman | June 4, 2008
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Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke’s tough talk on the US Dollar helped support the greenback against the major global currencies, but it caused a minor rally against the Israeli shekel. As a reminder, the shekel has been one of the world’s strongest currencies over the last year, and its strength, while serving as a seal of approval on the state of the Israeli economy, has crushed exporters as well as many Israeli hi-tech’s that sell globally but keep their R&D local, due to the fact that their expense line has increased from the currency differential. (Continue »)
Written by: Aaron Katsman | May 22, 2008
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If “Initiative 97″ makes it on the ballot in the fall, citizens of Seattle will be asked to approve a measure that would prohibit the city from investing its pension funds in corporations that benefit from the Iraq war, or companies that provide material support to the Israeli government within the so-called “occupied territories.” The opposition to the initiative is being led by StandWithUs.org. It strikes me as a bit odd that a measure that seems to be intended to protest the U.S. Iraq policy also includes divestment from Israel.
Why the connection?
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