Technology

Tired of thinking too hard about what to get your loved ones for their birthday? Israeli company Bday launches the Gift Finder service on Facebook, which recommends what to get them based on their "Likes" and the "sentiment associated with those likes. Bday also announced it recently secured a funding of $2 million.

New tool to help you manage your projects, divide them into sub tasks, and track their progress. Startup Gigantt developed a task managing application that includes a number of features that makes task managing modular and easy to control.

In the coming months, Israel’s state-owned electric company hopes to rolli out a nationwide, high-speed broadband network. Exploiting the small size of the densely populated country, the effort aims to put Israel at the forefront of the next generation of Internet technology.

4Singles is a new Israeli app that enables you to find your better half using a smart-matching algorithm and GPS location. The app crosses your selected preferences with your location to help you find your potential date.

The satellites, weighing up to six kilograms, will be sent together to space as one structure and receive signals from Earth. In the future, they could be used for locating missing persons and people in distress.

The Israeli website Stagee functions as an online talent agency whether you are “Just Looking”, a “Talent” or an “Agent”. Developers hope to transform the entertainment industry by allowing talents and agents to better socialize on the web.

A new startup, which was named startup of the year, can make your trips to the tailor completely unnecessary: Using a standard webcam, the free software can measure your exact body dimensions and provide you with your clothing size and fit. The details can then be passed on to online clothing websites.

The free music player Serendip allows its users to follow other users with similiar taste in music. The playlists it designs are based on music uploaded by millions of social network users in real time. “Serendip connects people who wouldn’t necessarily connect socially. Now they connect through music,” says company CEO.

The Israeli Air Force is using bird-tracking radar technology to ensure safe aviation over Israeli skies, one of the busiest junctions of avian migration routes worldwide. The system, developed at Tel Aviv University, can tell pilots where the birds will be in real time.

Lumus, an Israeli company, specializes in what it calls Light-guide Optical Element (LOE) technology. Its latest product is the PD-18-2, which may look to the untrained eye like a cumbersome pair of sunglasses. But inside the lenses of the glasses, the user can see high-quality full color images.

An Israeli company that provides a package of management services for small and micro businesses worldwide secured an $8 million investment from Morgenthaler Ventures after launching v 2.0. SohoOS says it hopes to leverage the power of many small-businesses to come together and create a combined strength.

Any.DO is an Israeli social to-do app that helps its users organize their tasks in better, more creative ways. It offers features such as online sharing and physical gestures and will most likely help you decrease your procrastination habits.

Jerusalem-based Snapkeys makes a smartphone app that lets you easily type without using a keyboard, with the text input easier than the usual “soft” keyboard you get with your touch cellphone.

A Tel Aviv based firm called XTR3D will launch a new touch-less, motion recognition technology to be used on multiple devices early this year. The company claims its software can exist with built-in software and can be installed on any consumer electronic device.

An Israeli company has developed a system that helps take the pressure off 3G data networks by “off-loading” usage to WiFi hotspots. The company, called WeFi, provides an application of the same name that lets you search and find millions – over 100 million, in fact – open Wifi hotspots all over the world!