Tag: smartphone
Haifa U Instructing Students on Resisting Fake News
As part of a new course, lecturers will explain that “fake news” is just another word for propaganda, and that we’ve already left the nightmare vision of Orwell’s 1984 far behind.
Israeli Breakthrough Could Diagnose Sleep Disorders While You’re Awake
Smartphone system under development at Ben-Gurion University can evaluate apnea and other sleep disorders at home, without contact sensors.
A Soldier’s Father and His Smartphone
My son the soldier, in silhouette, sitting alone in his uniform on top of a mountain, wrapped in his tefillin, reading from a siddur, the sun rising in the distance, bursting forth into the sky-NACHAS
Israeli Chasidic Rebbe Permits Use of Filtered Internet, Smartphones
In the Karlin-Stoliner Rebbe's opinion, a draconian, sweeping prohibition on electronic communications creates a situation where many break the law in secret and are exposed to dangerous content.
IDF Using Facebook to Catch Fraudulent Chareidi Draft Dodgers
The young men "shared" their lives on Facebook, proving they were not living Chareidi lives, as they had claimed to the IDF.
Israeli Researchers: Smartphone App May Help Parkinson’s Patients [video]
A Smartphone app may be able to help prevent Parkinson's disease patients from falling.
Israeli Start-Up May Charge Your Smartphone in 30 Seconds (Video)
An Israeli startup company called StoreDot has unveiled a prototype charger that can re-energize a phone battery in 30 seconds.
The new technology was based...
Israeli ‘Start Up’ Couple’s Gadget Holds Smartphones in the Car
‘The Start= Up” Nation has come through again, this time with a $9 gadget that solves the problem of holding a smartphone, that may have cost several hundred bucks, anywhere in the car, safely and securely.
Savvy Israelis Ahead of US in Smartphone Internet Use
Israel often can be seen with two cell phones, one in each ear. Smartphones have been around in Israel only since 2009 but already are in most Israeli’s hands. No wonder Waze was made in Israel
Samsung S4 Smartphone Makes ‘Aliyah’ and Costs $1,100
Samsung's Galaxy S4 flagship Smartphone arrived in Israel this week with an official price tag of approximately $1,100 (3,600-3,700 shekels).
Prices may drop a bit...
IDF to Protect Smartphones from Hi-Tech Spies
The IDF soon will install protective systems onboard its smartphones used by the IDF to protect them against digital Trojan horses and prevent various...
App Helps Israelis Seek Bomb Shelters
Smartphone apps provide a wide range of services, including information and entertainment, but in Israel, the apps have another unique life-saving use – finding...
Smartphone app Has Text of Megillah and Drowns Out Haman’s Name
What would Purim be without the following apps? One Smartphone app provides a noisemaker, and another lets you choose which noise to make – such as a machine gun or air horn.
The Next War With Apps and GPS
What does it say about us that we create programs to measure how fast we can run and where we can seek shelter?