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Travel Israel - illustrated guide, phrasebook, and maps. Incl: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and more (Mobile)

Travel Israel - illustrated guide, phrasebook, and maps. Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide on Your PDA. FREE General Information chapter and a map in the trial version.Features Fully illustrated. Historical overviews. Interesting facts. Maps formatted for your mobile device. Comprehensive phrasebook. Museums hours and ticket info. Navigate from...

Tags: Jerusalem, Mobile, Biology, Beverage, Tel Aviv, Israel, Transportation, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2006-09-18

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9 Tips to Pitching the Press

I just returned from keynoting a PR Newswire seminar in Tel Aviv on how to run marketing campaigns on a shoestring budget. Kudos are well deserved to Rakefet, Sharon and the rest of the PR Newswire team as well as Avi Yair at NCSM Marketing and Yigal Cohen at Linx...

Tags: Journalist, PR Newswire, Kudos, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Still in private beta, headup adds more Yahoo! goodness

Tel Aviv-based SemantiNet announced today that their headup browser plugin has added support for Yahoo! Fire Eagle and BOSS to its set of capabilities. Also today, Yahoo! announced that BOSS is serving an impressive 10,000,000 queries per day, some of which will now be coming in from headup. ...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Beta, Headup, Web Browsers, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-08

Robert Scoble: 'No bigger week for Nokia' than this one

Robert Scoble of Scobleizer fame is in Barcelona, Spain for Nokia World, a week where Nokia talks to its top customers, and according to him, there is no bigger week for Nokia than this one: It's their "touchiest week." So what's Nokia got to say, you ask?...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Robert Scoble, Apple Inc., Bluetooth, Smart Phones, GPS, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Wi-Fi, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Red Hat acquires Qumranet

I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-04

The role of media in the Internet age

Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, a fake news show that has acquired a huge following a group among whom I include myself, is attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week. As a result, he had the chance to meet with members of...

Tags: Newspaper, Internet, Media, News, Jon Stewart, Advertising & Promotion, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Your computer as your singing coach

Israeli researchers have developed an electronic ear to coach vibrato technique. Until now, the quality of a vibrato -- the pulsating change of pitch in a singer's voice -- could only be judged by voice experts. Now, a Tel Aviv University research team 'has successfully managed to train a computer...

Tags: Researcher, Quality, Teacher, Computer, TAU, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-05

Women's attractiveness judged by software

According to Haaretz, an Israeli team of computer scientists has developed a software that ranks facial attractiveness of women. Instead of identifying basic facial characteristics, this software has been designed to make aesthetic judgments -- after training. The lead researcher said this program 'constitutes a substantial advance in the development...

Tags: Software, Face, Symmetry, Researcher, Women, Image, Computer, Haaretz, Gender And Diversity, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Human Resources, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-31

New study shows parents clueless, kids just as bad

A new study out of Israel on parent perceptions of their kids' online activities shows a real need for education at both the parental and child levels. A new Tel Aviv University research study has found that, despite what parents might believe, there is an enormous gap...

Tags: Children, Parent, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-02-06

It'll be lights out Chicago, and Toronto and so on

So, usually I leave the political stuff to Harry, but since this information segues nicely with his post on the disappointing Bali climate conference, here's a quickie update on a blustery Sunday night. Frustrated by the glacial pace of ongoing global climate initiatives that Harry does of...

Tags: City, Light, Blogging, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-12-16

What's worse? The spam itself? Or how anti-spam solutions block legitimate mail?

After being in New York City last week and being busy almost the entire time, I spent a good part of the weekend catching up on e-mail. I have more inboxes than I care to admit and use more technologies than I should be using to see access them...

Tags: Folder, Anti-spam, Gartner Inc., E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-29

Microsoft gains over Google in Holy Land

In Microsoft ‘proud’ to trump Google in search last month I reported a Microsoft victory over Google in Israel, in enterprise search.Microsoft continues to make inroads over Google in the Holy Land.When Microsoft and Google were recently put to a head to head search performance test to vie for an Israeli Government enterprise...

Tags: Enterprise, Google, Google Software Applications, Microsoft, Search

Blog posts 2007-05-29

NuConomy preps social Web analytics and incentive platform

In the age of AJAX, user-generated content and the data mining of Web attention data as the currency of the realm, there is a thirst for a generalized platform that measures more than page views and a few other basic metrics. NuConomy, a five-person Israeli startup based in Tel Aviv,...

Tags: Wired & Wireless, Social networking, SaaS, General, Business Intelligence

Blog posts 2007-04-29

Google vs. Microsoft Office? Yay! Google Spreadsheets gets charts

Perhaps Google CEO Eric Schmidt did really mean it when he winked to John Battelle yesterday before the entire Web 2.0 community that he does not seek to smother the Microsoft desktop with the Google cloud! After all, how serious a contender can he be if it is BIG...

Tags: Google Software Applications, Microsoft, Google Apps, Google

Blog posts 2007-04-18

Microsoft 'proud' to trump Google in search

One small step for Microsoft search, one giant leap for Microsoft Corporation, in its battle with Google.The government of the State of Israel has chosen Microsoft search technology to power its government services portal, gov.il, over Google search technology, reports Globe Tel Aviv. Microsoft and Google were put to...

Tags: Search, Microsoft, Google, Enterprise

Blog posts 2007-04-04

A 'beauty function' for a better look

Computer scientists have already tried to digitally enhance our images. Today, lets look at the Beauty Function developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University TAU and who promise a more beautiful you. Their program was based on a survey of 300 men and women who were asked to rank pictures...

Tags: Computers &, Internet, Engineering &, Innovation, Leisure, Beauty Function, Karin Kloosterman, Tommer Leyvand

Blog posts 2007-02-07

McAfee Data Loss Prevention Gives Partner Communications Universal Protection Against Data Loss

Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Partner Communications Company Ltd. Orange has been delivering mobile communications service to Israel since 1999 and yet represents an estimated 32 percent of the country's cellular market. The company wanted to secure private information for more than 2.5 million subscribers and protect sensitive internal data, such...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Financial, DLP, Data Loss, Financial Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2007-01-01

e-Mobile Radio: Live music and news from anywhere and at any time!! (Mobile)

Live music and news Radio from anywhere at anytime! NO Subscription fee required!Comprehensive collections of radio stations including Rock, Jazz, News & Headlines, World music, Adult Hits, Classical, Country and Classic Rock. Over 70 stations!Listen to the latest headline news, market commentary, including CNN, NPR News Headlines,MSNBC Audio News, BBC...

Tags: Mobile, Radio, Music, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2006-09-18

e-Mobile Radio: Live music and news from anywhere and at any time! (Mobile)

Live music and news Radio from anywhere at anytime! NO Subscription fee required!Comprehensive collections of radio stations including Rock, Jazz, News & Headlines, World music, Adult Hits, Classical, Country and Classic Rock. Over 70 stations!Listen to the latest headline news, market commentary, including CNN, NPR News Headlines,MSNBC Audio News, BBC...

Tags: Mobile, Radio, Music, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2006-09-08

Mixing brain cells and nanodots

It's not the first time that animal brain cells have been used in conjunction with nanoparticles. But now, a team of Israeli researchers has grown self-organizing networks of rat brain cells by binding them to carbon nanotubes. In a short article, New Scientist reports that these neural networks are remarkably...

Tags: cell, nanotube, network

Blog posts 2006-06-24