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Topic: smartphone apps

May 23, 2013
12:04 pm

Microsoft's 'Innovate for Good' contest (photo credit: Courtesy)

Microsoft contest draws teens to Windows 8

In the ‘Innovate for Good’ program, youths learn how to write mobile apps and MS beefs up its new OS’s offerings

By David Shamah

May 16, 2013
5:29 am

Bring your laptap. Tel Aviv beach. (Photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Tel Aviv to be the world’s first ‘digitalized’ city

Digi-Tel will provide residents of the Big Orange with everything they need to know online – and the wifi is free

By David Shamah

March 24, 2013
10:19 pm

Passover bits and bytes

From shopping to hametz-checking to the Seder itself, iPads, iPhones and Android devices can help you celebrate the festival digitally

By David Shamah

March 19, 2013
10:09 pm

The scene in Tel Aviv last January, when flooding closed the Ayalon Expressway, one of the city's main traffic arteries (photo credit: Flash90)

Waze promises updates on Obama-related traffic jams

The Israeli crowdsourced navigation app fell short during a huge rainstorm, but is ready for tie-ups during the US president’s visit, the company says

By David Shamah

February 27, 2013
10:47 am

A Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone equipped with Red Bend's 'dual-persona' operating systems (photo credit: Courtesy)

‘Split personality’ phone solves major security breach

Red Bend’s new dual-persona Android OS platform for Samsung phones provides a better solution to the ‘BYOD dilemma’

By David Shamah

February 25, 2013
2:16 am

Elderly Israeli Arab speaks on a cellphone (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Co-opting the smartphone revolution for the elderly

An Israeli company has developed a platform that will put the 55+ crowd in charge of their data

By David Shamah

February 19, 2013
1:36 am

Look and Cook on a Manhattan billboard (photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli cookbook a star in Apple’s new ad campaign

Look and Cook, an app featuring recipes by Israeli chef Meir Adoni, is one reason you should buy an iPad, says Apple

By David Shamah

January 21, 2013
8:10 pm

Screenshot from the “Elections 2013 - vote and Influence” app (photo credit: Courtesy)

An app to put election pollsters in their place

You can keep track of the election results online in real time, and compare those figures to what the polls have been predicting

By David Shamah

January 20, 2013
11:25 am

Workers prepare ballot boxes for the upcoming Israeli election at a warehouse near Tel Aviv before they are shipped to polling stations, January 2013. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Election results to be available online, in real time

Official website, smartphone app will post vote counts for each community as they come in on election day

By Stuart Winer

January 3, 2013
1:01 pm

An Instagram color-corrected photo of a driver using Waze in the Philippines. (photo credit: CC-BY raramaurina,Flickr)

Apple reportedly looking to buy Israeli map app Waze

iPhone maker may see local startup as solution to mapping woes; company wants $750 million, but Apple offering $400-$500 million, according to reports

By Michal Shmulovich

January 1, 2013
1:01 am

Waze screenshot (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Researchers use Israelis’ favorite crowdsourced commuting app to keep traffic cops on the ball

Waze is being drafted to battle road accidents, by determining whether traffic police are patrolling problem intersections

By David Shamah

December 5, 2012
11:23 am

Aerotel glucose reader and app (photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli-developed smartphone apps provide a smart way to stay healthy

Israel is at the forefront in development of applications for iPhones, Android phones, and tablets that will help users, employers, and insurance companies keep people healthy — and save money

By David Shamah

November 18, 2012
6:16 pm

Israeli soldiers and citizen takes cover as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets in Ashdod (Photo credit: Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)

Smartphones and websites help keep Israelis safe in wartime

Want to know if your area is being targeted by Hamas rockets, and where to go, if so? There are apps for that

By David Shamah

October 25, 2012
5:50 am

Project Ray phone (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli-developed smartphone gives the blind new-found access to apps

Project Ray offers ‘eye-free’ operation for the visually-impaired

By David Shamah

September 21, 2012
12:00 am

A woman shopping with her son at the Rami Levy supermarket in Gush Etzion (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90.)

Paying too much at the supermarket? The Knesset plans to save you money

Legislators are considering a government database that would automatically update shoppers on the price of groceries

By David Shamah

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