A Journey to the Levant
Ozmodevices , Formerly called Hstream, are trying to kill Bluetooth.
At first, their idea of creating a PAN (Personal Area Network) looked similar to what IXI Mobile did with Bluetooth. (I used to work at IXI at that time).
But, reading more, it seems they aim to substitute Bluetooth with WiFi.
Articles:
Ozmo teams with Intel to target Bluetooth – Link.
Crunchbase – Link
While surfing “The Korea Times”, I have noticed a whitesmoke ad in Korea. WhiteSmoke is a Israeli startup aiming to help individuals writing English essays/e-mails and more.
Korean screen captur:
From The Korea Times: Link
115,852 out of 773,077 Foreign students in the US come from South Korea.
South Korea surpassed China and Japan.
The Mamot’s Hole brought to my attention the unique life story of Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln.
He was born Jewish, converted to Christianity, became a member in the British Parliament, he was a Nazi agent, deported to China, converted to Buddhism and collaborated with the Japanese… wow!
A link to Wikipedia.
Dafna rubber boots are manufactured in Israel (in Kibbutz Dafna). Their website is not that good. But part of their Catalog is online.
Dafna boots are sold in Japan, both online (Rakuten) and in selected shops. Last year, I saw them being sold at Sony Plaza (I think it is now called just Plaza).
It is interesting to see a product with almost no sales/presence in Israel, but global reach (Finland, UK, Japan and many more). Can’t really say they compete with Hunter, but rather a cheaper alternative.
Rakuten Dafna boots page – link.
Screen Capture:
The Economist is quoting a research done by WHO – HBSC – Health behavior in School-aged children.
The research covers only the following countries (Japan is not included):
HBSC 2001/02, 36 countries: Finland, Norway, Austria, Belgium (French), Hungary, Israel, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Wales, Denmark, Canada, Latvia, Poland, Belgium (Flemish), Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greenland, Lithuania, Russia, Slovak Republic, England, Greece, Portugal, Rep. of Ireland, USA, Macedonia, Netherlands, Italy, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia, Ukraine.
HBSC 2005/06, 41 countries: The same countries adding Bulgaria, Iceland, Luxembourg, Romania and Turkey.
Belgium (French) is most violent while Israel is 24th, with 26% of 11 year old boys claim they were involved in at least 3 physical fights in the previous year.
Last week’s Economist had many MBA ads.
I was wondering why? Well, it is the “registration season” for MBA. But, I believe it is also related to the economic downturn. It is quite obvious that many people are going to lose their jobs, and what do you do when you cannot find a job? – try to stay ahead of the pack by studying and getting another degree in your Resume.
I searched for “MBA economy downturn”, and this is what I got:
The Times just published their World’s top 200 universities list. link
The Technion, “My” university is ranked 109. At first I was disappointed, but then, I browsed through the list and found out that it is not that bad.
Waseda University is at 180.
Indian institute of Technology is at 154.
BUT, not even close to Tokyo university at 19, Kyoto University at 25.
Yoichiro Nambu, Toshihide Maskawa, Makoto Kobayashi won this year Physics Nobel prize.
