Close to 30 million mobile app users turn to Waze to tap its crowd-sourced data for car directions. The Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA) and the White House saw an opportunity to use the app in a new way, following widespread gas shortages due to Hurricane Sandy.
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Israeli company ICVT, which has gained fame among Mac users with its JPEGmini format, has decided to take its technology on the road with a new app for Apple devices called Beamr. ICVT’s aim is to enable users to share high quality photos just as quickly as one would share them using existing, image-quality-reducing apps.
Dear Friends and colleagues, I am writing you this message in order to reassure those of you that have partners or suppliers in Israel. The situation has not affected production plans or other businesses and the Israeli stock exchange has even shown positive reactions (up 1%). Israeli sea and aerial ports are fully active and […]
A 13-year-old from Beersheva has developed a new iPhone app that lets users keep track of Palestinian rocket fire being fired into southern Israel from Gaza, by sending a notification whenever an alert is sounded.
Fighter pilots and team-sports players have more in common than a uniform, a taste for danger and a thirst for victory. Both can be trained to perform better by using brain-training software developed in Israel.
US doctors are already using IceSense3 to freeze out benign growths quickly and painlessly. Next it could target small malignant tumors.
It didn’t take much time for Tel Aviv to return to normal after the warning siren went off Friday afternoon. The cafes and restaurants were packed, and the crowds milling around the streets didn’t worry too much about the rocket that had been fired from Gaza. “In the city, despite the boom, people kept on […]
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, have discovered a new physics trick. While it’s not exactly Superman vision –– yet — the camera developed by Ori Katz, Eran Small and Prof. Yaron Silberberg sees through objects using a simple light bulb, a standard digital camera and the basic technology found in […]
Israeli company Neomatix has set a goal for itself: to ease the lives of billions of car owners worldwide, who for different reasons, ranging from lack of awareness to simple laziness, never bother checking their car’s tire pressure. Yes, that’s right, tire air pressure. And like they say in the Apple ads – believe it […]
Citing humanitarian reasons, the Israeli Finance Ministry recently gave the green light for a subsidiary of Israel Chemicals – which is owned by the Israeli company but is based in Ireland – to sell water purification tablets for distribution in war-torn Syria, even though it is considered an enemy state. With clean water availability at […]
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