by Dana Blankenhorn
GE Healthcare signed a strategic partnership to bring cardiovascular Computed Tomography (CT) technology from start-up Arineta Ltd. of Israel to the hospital market. (Heart image from GE Healthcare.) CT has been around for four decades but is only now capable of imaging the heart quickly enough to provide freeze-frame images of the muscle in action. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/healthcare/ge-to-get-its-heart-tech-from-israel/3950
by Guy Grimland
The Kfar Sava-based startup N-trig will provide the touch-screen technology for the tablet computer that Taiwanese manufacturer HTC is developing as direct competition for Apple’s iPad. The so-called gPad will be rolled out in the United States in November by global search engine, email, book depository, you name it colossus Google, in cooperation with the U.S. telecommunications company Verizon. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/htc-taps-israeli-technology-for-its-ipad-slayer-1.309429
by Harvey Stein
The days of fumbling for your house keys as you reach home could soon be over with a new keyless biometric security system called SafeRise that was developed in Israel and is now in use in residential buildings, offices and even a Florida police station (Video). http://www.israel21c.org/201008188220/technology/with-saferise-you-are-the-key-to-your-home
by Lisa Damast
Israel is at the cutting edge of some of the best Internet technologies around. ISRAEL21c takes a look at the brightest new companies that are now revolutionizing the web; Answers.com, MediaMind, Incredmail, iMedix, Outbrain, Kaltura, Face.com. MyHeritage, FixYa, and Conduit. http://www.israel21c.org/201008178214/technology/israels-top-ten-technologies-that-are-transforming-the-web
