By Karin Kloosterman

Smart Hand, a pan-European program to develop a life-like artificial hand, has just released its prototype now functioning on a man in Sweden. Interfacing nerve endings with the mechanical device is Prof. Yosi Shacham from Tel Aviv University.
It is one of the world’s first thought-controlled prosthetic devices –– an artificial life-like hand, and it [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
A lot of Canadians I know like to talk about peace building. And Canadians in many ways are good at it. I grew up in Newmarket, Ontario and in my class had students who were first generation – or new immigrants to Canada – from all over the world. There was H. Khan, [...]

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By Staff
We all know that Israelis like to talk - about everything - about their famlies, their jobs, politics.  You name it, Israelis want to share it with you.  And Israelis love to share on Facebook, a well known and hugely successful social networking site.  Well, now they can do it in Hebrew!  Facebook just [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

Canadians love their Blackberries, and I am not talking about the small berries you buy from the side of the road near Huntsville, Ontario in the summer. Thanks to a new Israeli technology, the old Blackberry smartphone is going to be a lot more useful.
A Blackberry development fund, BlackBerry Partners Fund, which controls [...]

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by Staff
Here’s an interesting post by Levi Shapiro on the website FierceMobileContent:
Israeli companies have made their country a leader in the mobile media sector. More than 30 multinational companies operate telco-related R&D facilities in Israel. Despite the global recession, 462 Israeli hi-tech companies raised more than $1.75 billion last year - the most in six [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

Except for Silicon Valley in the US, no other location besides Israel comes close to the number of high-tech start-ups in the world. We call Israel Silicon Wadi –– wadi is valley in Hebrew.
While Canada may not be a major investment partner for Israeli companies (who tend to look for US funding), it [...]

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