Windows 7 already in stores in Israel - still not priced
Windows 7 has already been delivered to stores in Israel, as were advertisement packs supplied by Microsoft Israel.
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20.10.2009 MS Vista to make official debut in Israel
Microsoft Windows team development head Steven Sinofsky will unveil Vista at Tech-Ed Israel 2006. windows -
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4.4.2006Windows 7 already in stores in Israel - still not priced
Windows 7 has already been delivered to stores in Israel, as were advertisement packs supplied by Microsoft Israel. However, to prevent retailers from
selling Windows 7 before the scheduled release date, no prices or retail EAN codes have been supplied. The versions delivered to stores are Home
Premium and Professional, both in Hebrew localization and English (which also sports a Hebrew cover). Also, to promote Windows 7, Microsoft Israel is
holding a decoration contest between different branches of retail stores in Israel, promising the winning branch a meal at a fancy restaurant and a
show by any Israeli artist of their choosing.
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20.10.2009Intel to build $3.5 billion
chip plant in Israel
Thursday's news of
Intel's second plant in
Israel--which will produce
300-millimeter wafers using a
45-nanometer process starting
in the second half of
2008--confirms an announcement
made in July by Prime Minister
Ariel
Sharon.
Sh
aron had said the company
would invest around $4
billion. Until now, Intel had
declined to
comment.
"Intel is
committed to widening its lead
in advanced semiconductor
manufacturing," Intel Chief
Executive Paul Otellini said
in a statement.
The
government has already
approved a grant of $525
million for the new facility,
as well as Intel's $600
million plan to upgrade its
existing plant. ..
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01.12.2005Gaza propaganda war takes place online
Branded by some as "hacktivism", the conflict between Israel and Palestine has spilled onto the web, with activists from both sides defacing
websites, taking over computers and shutting down Facebook groups, according to a report from the BBC yesterday. A group of pro-Palestinian hackers
defaced several high-profile websites on January 7th, including a US Army website and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's website. The group, who
call themselves "Agd_Scorp/Peace Crew" replaced pages with white space and a well-known photograph of a boy throwing stones at an Israeli tank in
Gaza, and the Israeli, American and British flags with a red strike through them. Text underneath read, "Stop attacks u israel and usa ! you cursed
nations !
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16.01.2009Syria Suspicious of Israel, Blocks Facebook
Syrian authorities have blocked Facebook, the popular Internet hangout, over what seems to be fears of Israeli "infiltration" of Syrian
social networks on the Net, according to residents and media reports. Residents of Damascus said that they have not been able to enter Facebook for
more than two weeks. An Associated Press reporter got a blank page when he tried to open Facebook's home page Friday from the Syrian capital.
Syrian officials were not available for comment Friday because of the Muslim weekend, but some reports have suggested that the ban was
intended to prevent Israeli users from infiltrating Syrian social networks. Lebanon's daily As-Safir reported that Facebook was blocked on Nov.
18. It said the authorities took the step because Israelis have been entering Syria-based groups.
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08.12.2007Microsoft Not Bidding to Buy Yahoo: Ballmer
Microsoft Corp is not looking to bid to buy all of Yahoo Inc but is in talks about other types of deals with the U.S. No. 2 search engine, Microsoft
CEO Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday.
"We are not bidding to buy Yahoo," Ballmer said at the launch of Microsoft's new research
and development centre in Israel.
"Yet, we are trying to have discussions about deals with Yahoo that might create value, but
not a whole acquisition of the company," he said without elaborating further.
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21.05.2008Vista selling really well, says Ballmer
Steve Ballmer is in no way disappointed with Windows Vista. It is selling incredibly well, he told a press conference in Herzeliya, Israel today.
"Vista sells on almost 100 per cent of all the new consumer PCs around the world," the Microsoft CEO proclaimed. He added that the
operating system was also selling on, "45 per cent of all of new business PCs". Which is enlightening, since business users are about the only
buyers of new PCs that get a choice.
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21.05.2008Facebook will not entirely ban anti-Holocaust groups
Following site complaints, a Facebook spokesperson barry Schnitt has told CNN that certain groups on the world's largest social networking, do
harbour 'Nazi ideals'. He continues to to state that Facebook finds Holocaust denial 'repulsive' but will not ban these groups,
citing the importance to free speech. He went on to state, "We want Facebook to be a place where people can discuss all kinds of ideas. Facebook
did go on to say that, these specific groups should be banned where the denial of the Holocaust is illegal, nations including Israel, Germany and
France to name but a few. Facebook is indeed a place where hundreds of different groups can discuss different ideologies.
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13.05.2009Microsoft Expanding Canadian Operations in Greater Vancouver Area
Microsoft Corp. today
announced that it intends to
expand its presence in Canada
by opening a new software
development center in the
greater Vancouver, British
Columbia, area. The Microsoft
Canada Development Centre will
open in the fall of 2007 and
will be home to software
developers from around the
world.
Microsoft is
a global company, and our
greatest asset is smart,
talented, highly skilled
people, said S. Somasegar,
corporate vice president of
the Developer Division at
Microsoft. Our goal as a
company is to attract the next
generation of leading software
developers from all parts of
the world, and this center
will be a beacon for some of
that talent.
The
Microsoft Canada Development
Centre will operate as one of
a handful of development
centers outside the companys
Redmond, Wash., headquarters;
the others are located in
North Carolina, Ireland,
Denmark and Israel. ..
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05.07.2007A Better Way to Stream TV?
A startup called
Arootz,
based in Netanya, Israel, says
it has devised a solution that
greatly increases the Net's
ability to deliver video
without requiring substantial
new infrastructure.
The approach takes
advantage of two existing (and
not very esoteric)
technologies: a standard
Internet feature known as
multicasting, by which the
same information can be sent
simultaneously to many
recipients using just one data
stream; and off-the-shelf hard
drives that can store vast
amounts of data fast and
cheap.
The
combination of the two
represents a radical new
approach to using the Net.
Here's how it works: In
today's world, when a person
sitting at a PC clicks a link
to watch a video, a series of
servers delivers the content
from its source to the end
user in what's essentially an
individualized
person-to-person channel. If
10,000 people in a city all
want to watch Desperate
Housewives, each one of them
gets their own personal
bandwidth-hogging data stream.
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28.06.2007Gates Welcomes Competition
With Google
JERUSALEM - Google
Inc. is fierce competition for
Microsoft Corp., but the
software giant does not fear
the race and plans to upgrade
his search technology in the
next six months, Microsoft CEO
Bill Gates said in remarks
published
Wednesday.
On his first-ever trip to
Israel, Gates praised Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon and
Israel's contributions to the
global high-tech market. In
interviews with Israeli TV and
newspapers, he also answered
questions about Microsoft's
fierce competition with
Mountain View,
California-based
Google.
"We are
not afraid of Google, but
there is intense competition
between us. Google is our main
competitor, brilliant people
work there, but Internet
search engines are still in a
terrible state compared to
where they could be," Gates
was quoted as saying in the
Israeli daily Yediot
Ahronot.
"This is
a situation that we hope will
change for the better in the
next six months. We are
working on it, as are other
companies, such as Google and
Yahoo," Gates added in
comments that were translated
into Hebrew...
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27.10.2005Botnet Attack Sinks Its Fangs into eBay Accounts
A network of infected zombie computers has been roped into acting as vectors in a new distributed attack that's targeting eBay accounts.
The attack, which is trying to wrestle personal financial data out of eBay accounts by brute force, has been going on for at least a week,
officials at Aladdin Knowledge Systems told eWEEK. The security firm discovered the new botnet Sept. 3.
The botnet is planting
what Aladdin calls a "sophisticated" Trojan on the systems of people who visit hacked Web sites. The security firm said the attack is being launched
from up to 300 popular Web sites, snagging vulnerable visitors to those sites.
Because Aladdin is based in Israel, the security
firm focused on sites popular in that country, finding that a popular e-commerce site for price comparisons and the main site of the largest Israeli
labor union have been infected, among many other sites. ..
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05.09.2007Microsoft looks to 'Echoes' to grow its Windows Live mobile, TV services share
Microsoft is readying a new platform, code-named "Echoes," that it is hoping will get more telco carriers to offer their subscribers Windows Live
and other forthcoming Microsoft services.
Microsofts near-term goal with Echoes is to make the scaling and expediting of its
Windows Live mobile service deployments easier. The platform which got its start as an incubation under Israel Researchs Corporate Vice President
Moshe Lichtman is being spearheaded by Microsofts
Israeli Strategic Development Center.
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29.05.2008Microsoft Snaps Up Ad Firm YaData
Microsoft bought Israeli advertising startup YaData for a
reported $20 million to $30 million. Founded in 2006, YaData
built targeting software to to splice consumers into "micro segments" and target them with relevant content and advertising.
The two companies said YaData's technology would be deployed across Microsoft's advertiser and
publisher solutions group, adding more advanced behavioral targeting capabilities. YaData will move from Tel Aviv into Microsoft's (MSFT) R&D
facility in Herzliya, Israel.
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28.02.2008Google social network ad business "improving"
Google Inc co-founder Sergey Brin said on Thursday advertising on social networking sites was improving but "still had a long way to go".
"In general it's been improving but we still have a long way to go," Brin told reporters on the sidelines of a conference in Jerusalem to mark
Israel's 60th anniversary. "Things have been going well this year...it's hard to predict where social networking will come out."
Brin also reiterated that he was "very happy" with a two-week test whereby rival Yahoo used Google search advertisements but said he had nothing
to add at this stage on any possible further tie-ups.
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15.05.2008Microsoft on your telly: a history of the company's Internet TV strategy
There may not be another
company as well-positioned to
take advantage of the growth
in IPTV as Microsoft. Despite
being primarily a software
company, Microsoft has long
had a passion for television.
The company launched
the 24-hour cable news channel
MSNBC in July of 1996 in a
joint venture with NBC. Just
less than a year later,
Microsoft purchased WebTV, one
of the first products to marry
television and the Internet.
In 2000 they acquired
Israel-based Peach Networks, a
provider of technology for
digital television. The late
nineties also saw a number of
television-related investments
by Microsoft, in companies
such as AT&T, @Home, Comcast,
and Rogers.
While the
1990s were a period of heavy
investment in television
companies (including a number
of acquisitions), the 2000s
have so far been much more
about Microsoft developing
television-related technology.
It is on the resulting
products and services that we
now focus our attention.
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12.07.2007Microsoft Not Interested in Buying Yahoo
According to statements made today by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the software company is not looking to bid to buy all of Yahoo but is in talks
about other types of deals with the U.S. No. 2 search engine. " We are not bidding to buy Yahoo, " Ballmer said at the launch of
Microsoft's new research and development centre in Israel. " Yet, we are trying to have discussions about deals with Yahoo that might create
value, but not a whole acquisition of the company. "
Although Ballmer did not elaborate on his plans, a person familiar with the
discussions says that Microsoft has now made an alternative offer, proposing to buy Yahoo's search business and take a minority stake in the Web
firm. For its part, Yahoo has said it was considering a "number of value maximizing strategic alternatives" and would evaluate any proposal made by
Microsoft.
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21.05.2008Visa introduces pin payment card
Visa is
introducing a revolutionary
new credit card allowing users to use their PIN for online card transactions.
Aimed at savvy internet users, the Visa PIN card features an
alpha-numeric display and a 12-button keypad built into the back of a conventional credit, debit or prepaid card. The card, developed using technology
from Australia-based
Emue technologies, promises a three-year battery life, and
much improved protection from online fraudsters.
Customers enter their PIN code onto the keypad and this generates one-time password. The
one-time password is then used to authenticate online purchases.
MBNA, a Bank of America company in the UK, Cornèr Bank in
Switzerland, Cal in Israel and IW Bank in Italy will each begin limited pilot trials of the new card shortly.
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11.11.2008iPhone now software unlocked in 32 countries and 69 carriers
With the European and Asian iPhone rollouts still months away, is it any wonder to find the little guy venturing out on the mean, GSM streets all on
his own? According to that list above compiled by the iPhone Dev Team, the
freebie iPhone software
unlock has now been tested to work in 32 countries and 69 national carriers -- a list which is changing by the minute. Testing is based on calls
in/out, SMS in/out, EDGE/GPRS access, and voicemail access. Not Visual Voicemail, naturally, but the ability to receive notifications alerts and check
voicemail messages. As usual, we won't link you directly to the iPhoneDev community in accordance to their request for uh, anonymity.
Update: Make that 42 countries and 90 local carriers according to our readers! They've unlocked their own phones on the additional
country/carrier combos: New Zealand/Vodafone, Spain/Moviestar, Poland/Orange, Czech Republic/Vodafone, Bahrain/Batelcom/MTC Vodafone, Israel/Cellcom,
Hungary/T-Mobile, Belgium/Proximus/Base/Mobistar, Kuwait/Wataniya, and Ireland/Meteor. Note: the iPhoneDev list included Telus (with a note that it
won't work) and double-counted India. Any more dear readers?
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13.09.2007TeraDisc Promises 1TB+ Optical Media
Blu-ray and HD DVD have pushed the limits of optical storage further than anyone thought possible. But a new technology has emerged which makes
Blu-ray's 50GB capacity look tiny. Mempile in Israel says it's able to fit an incredible 1TB of data onto one "TeraDisc" which is the same size as
CDs and DVDs. That's 20 times the capacity of a maxed-out dual-layer Blu-ray disc.
The incredible capacity achieved using this new
technology is made possible by employing 200 5GB layers, each one only five microns apart. The discs are completely transparent to the red lasers
which are used in the associated recorder. Prototypes have already been made to store up to 800GB of data, and Mempile says it will crack the 1TB
barrier before moving on to build 5TB blue laser disks. Dr. Beth Erez, Mempile's Chief Marketing Officer says that the first 1TB disks have a
lifespan of 50 years and could be on the shelves in two to three years.
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26.08.2007Online Ads to Surpass Radio
Media services firm
ZenithOptimedia forecasts that
online advertising will soon
overtake radio advertising:
worldwide spending on internet
advertising will grow 28.2% in
2007, compared with a rise of
just 3.7% in the rest of the
advertising market. In a
forthcoming report on
worldwide advertising, Zenith
says: " We now expect the
internet to overtake radio in
2008, a year earlier than in
our last forecast. We forecast
the internet to account for
nearly 9 percent of global ad
spend by 2009, and its share
should reach double digits
early next decade ." The
internet now attracts more
than 10% of advertising
spending in Norway and Sweden
as well as the U.K., and is
expected to pass the 10% mark
in the U.S., Australia,
Canada, Denmark, Israel,
Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
by 2009.
Zenith
said it had "downgraded" its
forecasts for newspaper and
magazine advertising as
publishers move to invest more
in online products and less in
print. Advertising expenditure
is " still growing in both
media, in nominal terms at
least, but after adjusting for
inflation newspaper
expenditure is essentially
stagnant ," Zenith said.
Worldwide online advertising
spending is set to hit 16.6
million (US$32.6 million)
this year, slightly behind the
18.2 million expected spend
on radio adverts and
substantially behind the 63.1
million spending on newspaper
adverts. But by 2009, internet
advertising is set to hit
21.5 million, with radio on
19.5 million and newspapers
on 66.9 million.
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