Technology

Thanks to Israeli cell phone application developer Zemingo, dangerous drivers are now getting their just desserts. Drivers who install the Traffic Observer app on their iPhones will be able to record and report offensive road behavior

Engineers led atTel Aviv University have developed a new way to stop movie and video pirates uising “video DNA matching,” which can create a unique fingerprint for every movie on the planet.

Israeli start-up “The Gifts Project” announces supporting Ebay’s Group Gifting platform. The year old company developed a social ecommerce platform for online group gifting, launched their service next to 2010s holiday season.

“Silicon-Air Battery” is the name given to the new kind of environmentally friendly battery. The grant will be used to build an array of energy storage solutions and developing durable, expendable batteries.

An Israeli computer genius who graduated university at the age of 12 is determined to make computers impenetrable with his new product, Paranoid. Nir Gaist, now 23 years old and co-founder of the start-up Nyotron, developed an anti-virus that takes a new approach to computer security by combining technology and social psychology.

As sensors that do things like detect touch and motion in cell phones get smaller, cheaper and more reliable, computer manufacturers are beginning to take seriously the decade-old idea of “smart dust” — networks of tiny wireless devices that permeate the environment, monitoring everything from the structural integrity of buildings and bridges to the activity […]

A new Israeli virtual institution, Sela College, recently announced the launch of the Online Lecture Channel. The channel will stream free lectures given by lecturers from universities, international experts, and users on a variety of educational subjects.

A group of Israeli students looking for a way to go online during lectures have developed a phone application that tells them which parts of a room or space have strongest WiFi connections.

General Motors car passengers will soon be able to wirelessly charge their cell phones, music players and other electronic devices on a car mat designed by Israeli start-up, Powermat.

Facebook has rolled out a new application targeting lower-spec feature phones. The app was developed in conjunction with the Israeli-based start-up Snaptu.

Following Wikileaks, an Israeli startup created a document technology that prevents unauthorized individuals from opening and reading files, alerting managers when a document's security is compromised and automatically blocking usage if unauthorized use is suspected.

The fruit fly has evolved a method for positioning its tiny, hair-like structures used to feel and hear the world that's so efficient, that a team of scientists in Israel and at Carnegie Mellon University says it could be copied to more effectively deploy wireless sensor networks and other distributed computing applications.

Intel has recently unveiled its next generation of chips, called ‘Sandy Bridge’, developed in Israel. This line of new chips is supposed to replace the current ‘Nehalem’ chips which were introduced just two years ago and is used mainly for desktop machines as well as for laptops.

A research team in Israel has developed an electronic sensor said to be even more sensitive and reliable than the nose of a sniffer dog.

If you had tried to find a “how-to” video five years ago, you would have probably found nothing. Three Israeli friends had come across the same problem which lead them to found “5Min Media”- a syndication platform for broadband instructional, knowledge and lifestyle video service that has recently been acquired by AOL.