Technology

Building on the need for better protection of children on the internet, an Israeli company, Sensegon, has developed a technology called Kangaroo, to detect and protect young internet users from online relationships that are likely to take a dangerous turn.

MultiMi, co-developed by AVG and Israeli start-up Zbang.it, is a new computer application that combines all your online platforms, such as e-mail, social networks and online documents, into a single place.

For years, teachers have been complaining about large class sizes, an old-fashioned learning environment and a lack of support for students with different learning styles. Now Israeli Dovi Weiss has developed a new digital teaching platform - and it's already revolutionizing classrooms in New York and Texas.

While there are already some technological solutions like apps that can help drivers avoid traffic jams, one solution is taking assisted driving to a whole new level. Israeli start-up Autotalks connects your cars to each other and the road to prevent accidents.

A new Israeli app rolling out in Israel, London and then Paris, Berlin, Moscow and beyond points the way for changing the century-old tradition of hailing a cab and standing around waiting. GetTaxi has developed an phone application that delivers requests to call centers with a tap on the screen and allows you to view the taxi's route to you live.

Grindr is considered to be the most successful gay dating/acquaintance app in the world, with more that 2 million users meeting each other based on their geographical location. Now, Grindr's CEO plans to launch another location based app for the straight community, called Amicus.

How long does it take you, approximately, to reach the right extension while calling a service center? An Israeli team had enough of waiting, listening to extension numbers and dialing them, and came up with the Zappix mobile app, your customer service call center savior.

Israeli start-up intoatv aims to rid you of all the different remotes and devices in your living room by giving you a home entertainment system which gathers all the different media sources, such as T.V., VOD, online video sources, Blu-Ray, DVD and media stored on PC's, into one interface.

Pimp My Clip, a new iPhone app from the Israeli software company Baboonix, is the first video enhancement app available in the Apple’s AppStore that offers a friendly editing platform for smartphones. The app offers many graphics and sounds to enrich videos that were taken on-the-go.

If you thought that feng-shui was all about miniature water fountains and small sand gardens, prepare for the web 2.0 version. It is now possible to design a website in a way that will provide better “energy flow,” in this case by automatically analyzing people’s attention when viewing a website for the first time.

New social network Google+ was launched a week ago with a great buzz. But many are reluctant to join yet another social network. To make the transition easier, Crossrider has released Google+Facebook, a browser extension that combines your old Facebook profile with your new Google+ one.

A new Israeli startup called 8minutes is trying to take the democratization of news one step further. The online service allows users to post news items on the site, but it is only those items that are worthy enough of user comments that will stay on the site for longer than 8 minutes.

Software developed by an Israeli team is giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible. The new software analyzes style and word choices to distinguish parts of a single text written by different authors.

Long journeys around the block, endless conversations with neighbors and friends, comparing information and prices; the search for the perfect kindergarten for our tiny loved ones can often be rather unbearable. Infogan, a new internet-based platform, is designed to ease the search process.

Three Israelis with various technological backgrounds intend on putting an Israeli flag on the moon with a coke-bottle sized rocket, in order to win a $20 million price from Google.