“Visualead launches its near-invisible QR codes in China, seeks local partners and investors” May 2013 Visualead “Visualead, an Israeli startup behind a simple service that creates QR codes that are barely visible, kicked off its official launch in China with a bang: winning the Growth Stage Competition at the Global Mobile Internet Conference yesterday. “It’s very exciting,” Visualead CMO Uriel Peled told TNW at the event in Beijing. It’s hard to argue that scooping an accolade at one of the most reputable startup competitions in China is anything but a promising sign for its China foray. And the company has big plans to help marketers, brand and others use its technology to better communicate with Chinese consumers.” Link to Article

 

“An App to Prevent Medication Mistakes” May 2013 MediSafe “To help prevent drug mishaps, MediSafe keeps track of multiple medications and sends a reminder when a dose is due. If the medicine isn’t taken, the app notifies a spouse or friend.” Link to Article

 

“Google Glass: Who Wore it Best?” May 2013 Slide.ly “These slideshows were made with a free tool called Slidely. In addition to using one’s own images from Facebook, Instagram, FLICKR, Picasa or their PC, users can also search for images from their Facebook friends’ albums, any public Instagrams via hashtag, and via Google Images – and import them directly into their slideshow (instead of first downloading to their PC, then uploading) – keeping you in the creative flow. Music can be imported in one-step via YouTube, SoundCloud or by PC upload.” Link to Article

 

“Analysis: Facebook’s future is getting brighter on smaller screen” May 2013 Recon Analytics “”A key item is: How fast is the user activity switching over to mobile and how is the monetization following?” asks Roger Entner, founder of Recon Analytics. “Right now, a computer user is a lot more valuable than a mobile user. How is Facebook going to close this gap — and how quickly?”" Link to Article

 

“Featured Startup Pitch: EasyHi’s Slide.ly app enables the easy organizing of photos and videos as dynamic slideshows” May 2013 Slide.ly “Slidely launched in June, 2012, as a web application that allows you to instantly create beautiful video slideshows from the photos and music you love. With Slidely, millions of people around the world express themselves creatively and emotionally through photos, videos, and music from their personal and social profiles as well as public sources.” Link to Article

 

“Facebook (FB) – Analysts Recommendations Before ER” May 2013 TipRanks “TipRanks is the first online co-browser that aggregates, scrutinizes, and ranks digitally published stock recommendations. TipRanks’ Financial Accountability Engine™ transparently provides the individual investor unbiased information about the reliability, accuracy and track record of those who provide sell-side advice.” Link to Article

 

“Facebook rides 54 percent increase in mobile users to top revenue projections” May 2013 MassiveImpact “Advertising industry commentator Sephi Shapira, chief executive officer at MassiveImpact, says that Facebook needs to focus its energy on using user data for targeted marketing to increase adverting per user revenues next quarter. “A key to sustainable future growth in ad revenue will be a utilisation of Facebook’s vast amount of user data in ad serving techniques, making ads substantially more relevant to the end user and in turn more profitable for the advertiser,” said Shapira.” Link to Article

 

“Facebook earnings and the war for mobile advertising” May 2013 MassiveImpact “Sephi Shapira, CEO of MassiveImpact, agrees with the assessment that Facebook must harness its vast access to valuable user data for the purpose of making ads more relevant and engaging. “A key to sustainable future growth in ad revenue will be a utilization of Facebook’s vast amount of user data in ad serving techniques, making ads substantially more relevant to the end user and in turn more profitable for the advertiser,” Shapira says.” Link to Article

 

“5 Must-Have Tech Tools for Small Business Marketing” April 2013 Slide.ly “Slide.ly is a Web-based app that lets you, a savvy business person, make unique slideshows and share them via popular social media sites. Simply choose pictures from Facebook, Instagram, Flickr or Google, set them to music, add some special effects and post your slideshow to your company’s social media pages.” Link to Article

 

“Verizon’s Earnings Jump, But Policies Draw Ire” April 2013 Recon Analytics “”Verizon is firing on all cylinders,” said Roger Entner, lead analyst and founder of Recon Analytics. “In an increasingly saturated market, the company is accelerating subscriber, revenue and profit growth. The ShareEverything plan is being received enthusiastically by consumers. FiOS [Verizon's bundled Internet, telephone, and television service] continues to make inroads in the Internet and video markets taking away share from the cable companies.”" Link to Article

 

“Verizon: Damn The Cable Cutters, Full Pay TV Ahead” April 2013 Recon Analytics “”FiOS continues to make inroads in the internet and video markets taking away share from the cable companies,” Roger Entner, Lead Analyst and Founder of Recon Analytics commented… “Verizon is firing on all cylinders. In an increasingly saturated market, the company is accelerating subscriber, revenue and profit growth. The ShareEverything plan is being received enthusiastically by consumers,” Entner added.” Link to Article

 

“Verizon Makes $2 Billion Profit” April 2013 Recon Analytics ““Verizon is firing on all cylinders,” noted Roger Entner, lead analyst and founder of Recon Analytics. “In an increasingly saturated market, the company is accelerating subscriber, revenue and profit growth. The ShareEverything plan is being received enthusiastically by consumers. FiOS continues to make inroads in the Internet and video markets taking away share from the cable companies.”” Link to Article

 

“Verizon Wireless Announces Record Profits, Sales of 4 Million iPhones” April 2013 Recon Analytics “”Verizon is firing on all cylinders,” Roger Entner, lead analyst and founder of Recon Analytics, said in response to the earnings announcement. “In an increasingly saturated market, the company is accelerating subscriber, revenue and profit growth,” Entner continued. “The Share Everything plan is being received enthusiastically by consumers [and] FiOS continues to make inroads in the Internet and video markets, taking away share from the cable companies.”" Link to Article

 

“Verizon Reports Strong 1Q, Looks to Maintain Record Margins” April 2013 Recon Analytics “Roger Entner, lead analyst and founder of Recon Analytics, said in comments that Verizon is “firing on all cylinders.” “In an increasingly saturated market, the company is accelerating subscriber, revenue and profit growth. The ShareEverything plan is being received enthusiastically by consumers. FiOS continues to make inroads in the internet and video markets taking away share from the cable companies,” Enter said.” Link to Article

 

“Verizon’s profit surges as postpaid additions keep flowing in Q1″ April 2013 Recon Analytics “”Verizon is firing on all cylinders. In an increasingly saturated market, the company is accelerating subscriber, revenue and profit growth,” noted Roger Entner, founder of Recon Analytics and a FierceWireless contributor. “The Share Everything plan is being received enthusiastically by consumers. FiOS continues to make inroads in the internet and video markets taking away share from the cable companies.”" Link to Article

 

“Publishers threaten to cut out ad networks in mobile display advertising” April 2013 MassiveImpact “”In theory, there are a few advantages of taking the ad network out of the value chain,” said Sephi Shapira, founder/CEO of MassiveImpact, Tel Aviv, Israel. “In reality, other than a few large players – and I think this is a global market change – it is extremely fragmented with publishers taking a share of the market,” he said. “Publishers need to be extremely large to directly sell space to advertisers, and there are only a handful of publishers around that can.”" Link to Article

 

“New online platform TipRanks collates stock advice for individual investors” April 2013 TipRanks ” Israeli company TipRanks has launched a new online tool that aggregates and rates digitally published stock recommendations with the goal of helping individual investors make more informed decisions. The TipRanks application, which is free to download, was developed by Uri Gruenbaum, a software engineer, after he became frustrated with losing money online by following bad stock-picking advice.” Link to Article

 

“Analyst-Ranking App Geared Toward Retail Investors” April 2013 TipRanks “An Israeli company, TipRanks, launched a free tool Tuesday that rates more than 5,000 sell-side analysts based on their past recommendations. The app is aimed at helping individual investors better assess analysts’ performance before deciding to follow their advice. Users also can search any stock to view the most successful analysts’ recommendations.” Link to Article

 

“Israel’s TipRanks rates analysts’ stock advice for investors” April 2013 TipRanks “Israel-based TipRanks has launched a free online platform aimed at individual investors which scores equity analysts based on their published recommendations. The “financial accountability engine” collects any digitally published stock recommendation and ranks over 5,000 analysts by performance so that investors can see their success rate.” Link to Article

 

“Facebook Home Wraps Android In Social” April 2013 Recon Analytics “In an email, Roger Entner, lead analyst and founder of Recon Analytics, characterized the announcement as another sign of increasing mobile competition. “Occupying the Android home screen on their new device developed with HTC gives Facebook access to mobile information like only Google, Facebook’s arch rival, who makes the phone’s OS Android has,” he said. “As Facebook’s users are more and more mobile it is imperative for Facebook’s success to have a massive mobile presence.”" Link to Article

 

“Facebook app takes over Android phones” April 2013 Recon Analytics “Roger Entner, tech analyst at Recon Analytics in Dedham, said that if it catches on, Facebook Home could undermine Google’s control of its own operating system. “The first thing you see is ­Facebook, and people go with what they see,” Entner said. So Android users may increasingly access the world through Facebook, which offers many Google-like features, including Internet search and e-mail. More visits to Facebook makes it easier for the company to sell digital advertising, its primary source of revenue. But Facebook Home might reduce demand for Google’s services, eating into that company’s ad dollars. “It’s a bold move,” Entner said. “Facebook has pushed themselves to the front of the queue.”” Link to Article

 

“Top Medical Apps in 2013″ March 2013 MediSafe “MediSafe Project is the first-ever cloud-synced pillbox app that not only reminds you when it’s time to take your medication, but also sends your family, friends, and caretakers alerts if you miss a dose, leveraging the power of your support system to keep you healthier.” Link to Article

 

“‘Take Your Pills’ Reminders From Apps and Gadgets” March 2013 MediSafe “Israeli startup MediSafe Project makes a free app that prompts users to take their medicine with reminders on their mobile phones. If patients don’t confirm that they’ve taken their pills, the software notifies a relative or caregiver. The app launched in November and was downloaded 30,000 times in three months. Founder Omri Shor developed it to ensure his diabetic father takes his insulin correctly. “If my dad forgets to take his insulin, I get a notification,” Shor says.” Link to Article

 

“T-Mobile to start offering iPhone 5 on April 12″ March 2013 Recon Analytics “”T-Mobile realizes that they have to change the rules of the game, because under the current rules, they’re losing, and they’re going to continue to lose,” said telecommunications analyst Roger Entner at Recon Analytics. He’s skeptical that the new plans, alone, can change its fortunes. “Even if they’re $5 cheaper, will that be enough? They’re already charging a significant discount to Verizon and AT&T, and they’re losing customers,” Entner said.” Link to Article

 

“T-Mobile to start selling iPhones on April 12″ March 2013 Recon Analytics “”T-Mobile realizes that they have to change the rules of the game, because under the current rules, they’re losing, and they’re going to continue to lose,” said telecommunications analyst Roger Entner at Recon Analytics. He’s skeptical that the new plans, alone, can change its fortunes. “Even if they’re $5 cheaper, will that be enough? They’re already charging a significant discount to Verizon and AT&T, and they’re losing customers,” Entner said.” Link to Article

 

“What’s Going On At Google?” March 2013 Recon Analytics ““Did you count how many times Google was mentioned? Zero times,” said Roger Entner, Founder and Lead Analyst at Recon Analytics, in an interview with Mobile Enterprise. He was referring to the March 14th Galaxy S 4 launch. “How many times was Android mentioned? Once. Samsung wants this to be a Samsung phone, they are trying to bury Google and Android in the middle layer and make it as unrecognizable as possible.”” Link to Article

 

“T-Mobile to start offering iPhone 5 on April 12″ March 2013 Recon Analytics “”T-Mobile realizes that they have to change the rules of the game, because under the current rules, they’re losing, and they’re going to continue to lose,” said telecommunications analyst Roger Entner at Recon Analytics. He’s skeptical that the plans, alone, can change its fortunes. “Even if they’re $5 cheaper, will that be enough? They’re already charging a significant discount to Verizon and AT&T, and they’re losing customers,” Entner said.” Link to Article

 

“Can the Samsung Galaxy S 4 Solve LTE Interoperability Issues?” March 2013 Recon Analytics “Samsung declined to provide details about the specific devices that each carrier will offer. But Telecompetitor checked in today with two people who have a deep understanding of how mobile devices are built – Roger Entner, lead analyst for Recon Analytics and Wayne Lam, senior analyst with consulting and research firm IHS/iSuppli. Both agreed that Samsung will likely create separate devices for each of the nation’s four largest carriers.” Link to Article

 

“Samsung To Push Humanizing Features In New Galaxy Phone” March 2013 Recon Analytics “The other big reason to focus on software is to “allow Samsung to differentiate in the Android platform,” says Roger Entner, lead analyst with Recon Analytics. With Google’s intentions for the future of Android uncertain, Samsung has been putting more investment into software services that set it apart even from the very operating system that powers it phones. Last month at Mobile World Congress the company said it was on track to bring out a phone that runs on the Tizen open-source operating system that it has helped develop in collaboration with Intel.” Link to Article

 

“Analyst: Fast Samsung Launch Could Crush BlackBerry” March 2013 Recon Analytics “Recon analyst Roger Entner thinks Samsung really wants to differentiate itself with software, saying the company needs to go “on top and above and beyond what vanilla Android is providing. It stands to reason taking into account both BlackBerry’s and HTC’s big flagship phone announcements earlier this year. While both presented well-built pieces of hardware, the bulk of their focus was on software. In BlackBerry’s case, a wholly redesigned, gesture-based operating system, and in HTC’s case, a radical update to its Sense UI which added a live panel update to the homescreen.” Link to Article

 

“Amid great expectations, the Samsung Galaxy S4 has arrived” March 2013 Recon Analytics “Leading up to today’s announcement, Roger Entner, lead analyst and founder of telecom consulting firm Recon Analytics, described in prepared remarks that “the Samsung Galaxy S4 is the next iteration in the most successful series of smartphones next to the iPhone.” He added that it is software that will differentiate the S4 against both the iPhone and the rest of the Android ecosystem.” Link to Article

 

“Meds Reminder in the “Cloud”" March 2013 MediSafe “A medication adherence app that ThirdAge mentioned in a round-up of health apps in December just got a whole lot better. MediSafe Project version 2.0, the first medication reminder to use cloud sync technology, sends alerts to users’ family, friends, and caretakers when they miss a dose.” Link to Article

 

“Pillbox App Helps Patients Remember to Take Their Meds” March 2013 MediSafe “For those who have medical conditions, it’d be nice if your doctor could be with you all the time to monitor your progress, but he has other patients to attend to. Luckily there’s an app that lets him make sure you’re staying on track, at least in the medication department. MediSafe Project 2.0, a free app available for Android and iOS, sends alerts when a patient has missed a dose of their medication.” Link to Article

 

“RCRTV: Regulatory Review” March 2013 Recon Analytics “RCR Wireless News Editor-In-Chief Dan Meyer talks with Roger Entner, founder of Recon Analytics, about the current wireless regulatory environment, including the impact current regulations are having on mergers and acquisition and competitive balance; device unlocking; and the IP Task Force initiative.” Link to Article

 

“MediSafe helps families and physicians make sure those pills get taken” March 2013 MediSafe “It’s amazing how easily people forget to take the medications that allow them to, you know, live. Pharmaceutical companies have literally manufactured pills that will solve many of our problems, but the simple act of removing medicine from its container and putting it in our mouths remains elusive. They should make a pill that helps people remember to take their pills. MediSafe isn’t quite like that, but it’s close: It’s an iPhone and Android application that reminds users to take their medicine, no ingestion required. The company is today releasing the second version of its service, which allows users to create multiple profiles — so they could, say, track their child’s medications — and share how well they stick to their regimen.” Link to Article

 

“Next-Generation Gadgets” March 2013 Spicebox “The ingenious Mauz (Macworld 2013’s Best of Show) is the only “appcessory” to turn the iPhone into a motion- and visual gesture-controlled wireless optical mouse, à la Tom Cruise in Minority Report. Plug it into any iPhone 4/4s/5, download the free app and desktop software the first time, and control your computer or media player via WiFi with customizable touch-screen motion gestures, Z axis/3D gestures (tilting the iPhone), visual gestures (hand and finger motions) and six shortkeys.” Link to Article

 

“MediSafe Project updates its mobile medication-reminder app, letting users email stats to doctors and more” March 2013 MediSafe “MediSafe Project version 2.0 seeks to give doctors better patient oversight in between office visits, via an in-app list of personalized medication adherence statistics patients can send them directly. Adherence rates are color coded to help users understand how well they’re taking medications. Users can export and email their personalized list as an Excel spreadsheet to doctors, caretakers or family members.” Link to Article

 

“Tips for driving in the snow” March 2013 iOnRoad “Check out iOnRoad, an award-winning smartphone app that improves driving in real time. The app uses your Android or iPhone’s camera and sensors to provide a range of personal driving-assistance functions, including augmented driving, collision warning and video recording. It’s like having a “black box” for your car.” Link to Article

 

“The Great Business Experiment | Start-up Incubators | Interviews with 9 Entrepreneurs” February 2013 MediSafe “The Great Business Experiment “Start-up Incubators” is a series of 9 interviews with Entrepreneurs who participated in an Entrepreneurial accelerator program. They share their journey and reveal the secrets to their success. Join us as we learn from their mistakes, and find out what they would do differently if they could do it all over again.” Link to Article

 

“Las 10 peores ciudades para conducir — Mexico” February 2013 iOnRoad “Los últimos datos provienen de iOnRoad, la aplicación para Android y iPhone que tiene como objetivo mejorar la conducción en tiempo real. Utilizando algoritmos informáticos y cámaras de teléfonos inteligentes, detecta los autos delante de tu vehículo, para avisarte cuando te encuentras en peligro de una colisión o de contacto lateral.” Link to Article

 

“App iOnRoad names Brooklyn as the worst place to drive” February 2013 iOnRoad “A new report states that Brooklyn is the worst place to drive, beating Manhattan. The report was done by the popular app iOnRoad. The app uses cell phone cameras and algorithms to come up with the results. Queens came in second place, with Manhattan rounding out the list at number four….” Link to Article

 

“How to Remember to Take Your Pill– Every Time!” February 2013 MediSafe “The MediSafe Project is the first “pillbox app” or medication reminder app, and it will send an alert to your phone reminding you to take your pill at the same time every day. Even better, it sends alerts to a list of people you specify when you miss a dose, so your roommate, best friend, or boyfriend can call you out on forgetting and remind you to take it!” Link to Article

 

“MediSafe App Makes Sure You Take Your Pills on Time” February 2013 MediSafe “Keeping up with when to take different medicines can be a chore, especially if you need to take something at the same time everyday. Enter MediSafe, a virtual pillbox that can remind you to take medicines at the right time. If you’re responsible for someone -– for instance a child or elderly parent -– then you can also track their medications. The app launched just a few months ago, and reports that users are taking pills on time 81% of the time. That’s 31% higher than the World Health Organization’s estimated average medication adherence rate of 50%.” Link to Article

 

“Interview with WCBS-AM in New York” February 2013 iOnRoad iOnRoad is interviewed on New York radio station WCBS-AM. Link to Audio

 

“10 worst cities for driving” February 2013 iOnRoad “To paraphrase an old saying of Mark Twain’s, everybody talks about the traffic, but nobody does anything about it. We are constantly bombarded with data about how much time we waste in our cars and what it is costing us, but congestion seems to always gets worse. The latest data comes from iOnRoad, the android and iPhone app that aims to improve driving in real time. Using computer algorithms and smartphone cameras, it detects cars in front of your vehicle, alerting you when you are in danger from a collision or sideswipe.” Link to Article

 

“Car App Picks 10 Worst Driving Cities” February 2013 iOnRoad “Among cities known for poor driving conditions, New York is the worst, according to a survey conducted using iOnRoad, a mobile-phone app designed to help drivers avoid trouble. Pittsburgh is also difficult, as are Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, the new survey says. The data are based on the driving history of the app’s users. The iOnRoad warns drivers when they are getting too close to the car in front of them or if they are wandering into the next lane, or in other situations that could lead to collisions.” Link to Article

 

“Mobile Phone App Data Reveals Top 10 Worst Cities for Driving” February 2013 iOnRoad “iOnRoad, the android and iPhone app that improves driving in real-time, collected comprehensive data from the app to determine the worst U.S. cities to drive in. The data is collected from iOnRoad drivers and over 100 drives nationwide to determine the results. The iOnRoad app uses the smartphone’s native camera and sensors to detect cars in front of the vehicle, alerting drivers when they are in danger.” Link to Article

 

“How To Turn Your iPhone Into The Coolest Computer Mouse You’ve Ever Seen” February 2013 Spicebox “A company called Spicebox is currently raising money on Kickstarter to create Mauz, a device that turns your iPhone into a computer mouse that is simultaneously aware of its movement in 3D space. As explained in the company’s pitch video, it’s like “plugging a computer mouse and a Wii controller into your phone, then adding a touch of Kinect.” Take a look at the video below to see how it works. If you like what you see, throw them some money over at Kickstarter.” Link to Article

 

“Make Valentine’s Day More Fun With These Two New Apps” February 2013 Rounds “If you’re in a long-distance relationship or aren’t able to get together with your partner for Valentine’s Day, you can still hang out through the Rounds Video Chat Hangout app. Rounds allows you and your honey to chat live while sharing media — playing games, listening to music, viewing pictures and watching YouTube videos — via multiple viewing modes on your phone or tablet.” Link to Article

 

“Details, context on Rounds, Vine & other video-sharing apps” February 2013 Rounds “The company behind Rounds – a video hangout app for mobile and Web – has decided to keep the socializing just among friends. Referring to its “young user base” (it says 70% of its users are under 25, though it has yet to catch on at my son’s high school), this week announced that the less than 3-month-old app was “retiring” its “Meet New People” feature “to focus on longer, more meaningful video conversations between real friends and family,” according to Tel Aviv-based Rounds Entertainment.” Link to Article

 

“Super Bowl Should Highlight Growing Significance Of Mobile Ads” February 2013 MassiveImpact “”CBS is once again set to live-stream the game, and was almost completely sold-out of mobile inventory space in December, with prices ranging from high six to low seven figures,” Sephi Shapira, CEO of mobile marketing firm MassiveImpact tells WebProNews. “But, marketers aren’t just thinking about people live-streaming the game, they’re thinking about how to engage with traditional TV viewers via mobile.”" Link to Article

 

“Macworld/iWorld 2013 Best of Show winners” February 2013 Spicebox “Plug the Mauz into your iPhone, and the phone turns into a controller for a computer or a TV set-top box. Mauz provides a virtual touchpad and support for both motion gestures and visual gestures (a Kickstarter project; booth 422).” Link to Article

 

“How To Accelerate Mobile Ad Adoption” January 2013 MassiveImpact “MassiveImpact Founder and CEO Sephi Shapira sees the data market split into three segments, each accessing a variety of consumer data: developers, ad networks, and post-click purchase history living with the retailer. The data lives in silos, fundamentally disrupting the value chain and making the “value chain broken,” he said.” Link to Article

 

“What US marketers can learn from the Japanese” January 2013 MassiveImpact “AS THE U.S. is still mastering the art of mobile advertising and Japan has led the way for technological advances that has shaped U.S. economic growth, why not learn another lesson from them and readapt mobile advertising to focus on results and performance that will help leverage the mobile phone and raise the value of major U.S. companies such as Yahoo and Facebook?” Link to Article

 

“Gesture computing is here! (And it’s out of control!)” January 2013 Spicebox “Spicebox at CES showed a really interesting hardware-software product called Mauz. You plug a dongle into your iPhone and install the Mauz app. It turns your phone into a mouse for your Mac. More than that, however, it enables you to control the Mac with Wii-like motion control, where the motion of the phone determines the on-screen control.” Link to Article

 

“The best startups from CES 2013: Touchscreen routers, electric skateboards, and lots of therapy” January 2013 Spicebox “What if you could use all of the great motion sensors in your iPhone to replace your mouse? The folks at Spicebox have developed Mauz, a tiny device that plugs into the bottom of your iPhone that turns motion gestures into typical mousing tasks. But it also uses your iPhone’s front camera for Minority Report-esque visual gestures.” Link to Article

 

“Mauz transforms your smartphone into a lean, mean – and versatile – gesture control machine” January 2013 Spicebox “Mauz is a dongle that plugs into your iPhone, and then launches its own app to make your smartphone an incredibly versatile device. You can connect it to your PC and use it as a trackpad, dragging your finger across the phone’s screen to control your PC. You can right click and left click – all from your smartphone.” Link to Article

 

“Mauz Phone : Kinect pour iPhone” — France January 2013 Spicebox “Voici une autre initiative qui met cette fois en scène un iPhone. Spicebox a planché sur un dongle, le Mauz Phone, qui se branche sur le port connecteur du smartphone. Relié à un Mac via un réseau wi-fi, cette technologie permet de contrôler l’ordinateur de plusieurs manière différentes : en bougeant l’iPhone, ou en plaçant sa main au-dessus du mobile. Il est aussi possible de manipuler un objet 3D sur l’écran du Mac, avec le smartphone.” Link to Article

 

“Opinion: Gesture-based interfaces are out of control” January 2013 Spicebox “Spicebox at CES showed a really interesting hardware-software product called Mauz. You plug a dongle into your iPhone and install the Mauz app. It turns your phone into a mouse for your Mac. More than that, however, it enables you to control the Mac with Wii-like motion control, where the motion of the phone determines the on-screen control.” Link to Article

 

“MAUZ, l’iPhone diventa un vero mouse wireless” — Italy January 2013 Spicebox “Il MAUZ è una delle novità più curiose che siano state presentate al CES 2013 della scorsa settimana. Con il proliferare di accessori senza fili, trackpad e Magic Mouse vari, a molti sarà venuta la voglia di trasformare il proprio Melafonino in una sorta di periferica di puntamento alternativa.” Link to Article

 

“Phone add-on Mauz wants to put you in control of everything” January 2013 Spicebox “Enter Mauz, an accessory that plugs into your smartphone, and turns that device into a controller for anything from a computer to a TV settop box. With Mauz plugged into your phone, you’ve now got a virtual touchpad, with the ability to scroll and click like you would with any laptop trackpad.” Link to Article

 

“Mauz: One device to rule them all” January 2013 Spicebox “Amongst all these, one of the most notable campaigns is Mauz: a compact little appcessory that turns your iPhone into a computer mouse. It gives you more than just click and drag functionality too, and also supports gesture controls, swipes, pinch-to-zoom, and much more. Making use of the iPhone’s accelerometer, it can even be picked up and tilted to navigate 3D environments.” Link to Article

 

“CES 2013 Video: Mauz for iPhone gadget turns iOS device into powerful touch-screen, 3D mouse” January 2013 Spicebox “The Mauz is a small dongle accessory that attaches to the dock connector of an iPhone and turns it into a powerful mouse. It’s certainly one of the more interesting ideas to come out of CES 2013. Although on first inspection you might think it a tad strange to turn an iPhone into a mouse, when you think how powerful the iPhone with its touch-screen display, 3D compass and accelerometers is: it suddenly starts to make sense.” Link to Article

 

“Mauz: This iPhone Pointer Almost Makes Kickstarter Worth the Trouble” January 2013 Spicebox “Mauz looks like a cool product and even tempts those who’ve grown skeptical of the Kickstarter model. If a buyer doesn’t mind potentially losing $45, then feel free to back the project.” Link to Article

 

“Top 5 Small Business Marketing Trends for 2013″ January 2013 MassiveImpact “Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last year, you’re probably aware of the growing number of mobile users and the resulting need for small businesses to offer mobile versions of webpages and marketing campaigns. Massive Impact’s CEO, Sephi Shapira believes that small business owners need to focus on mobile marketing this year—including mobile sites, mobile commerce and mobile apps.” Link to Article

 

“Today’s Burning Question: Mobile Ad Revenue To Reach $11.4B?” January 2013 MassiveImpact “In 2013, there will be a major switch to CPA (cost-per-action) or performance based mobile advertising that will require major improvements in user tracking as more and more brands are demanding an in-app purchase model, where advertisers only pay for actual results rather than clicks.” Link to Interview

 

“Entrevista al CEO de la agencia de publicidad móvil Massive Impact — Spain” January 2013 MassiveImpact “La publicidad en Internet es sin duda el futuro de la misma. Pero si hay un aspecto que destaca sobre todos los demás es el ámbito móvil, que cada vez tiene más usuarios gracias a los teléfonos inteligentes y a las tablets. Por si esto fuera poco las aplicaciones se han convertido el nuevo modelo de negocio no sólo por lo que puede pagarse por ellas sino también por la publicidad embebida en las mismas. Hay muchas empresas de publicidad centradas en el ámbito móvil, siendo una de las más grandes Masive Impact. Sephi Shapira es su CEO y a continuación os dejamos con una entrevista que le hemos realizado.” Link to Article

 

“This Prototype iPhone Dongle Blends The Magic of Kinect and the Wii — But The Best Is Yet to Come” January 2013 Spicebox “We caught wind of the Mauz iPhone dongle from Spicebox last week during CES, and promised you a closer look; here it is. You’ll remember that the dongle connects to your Mac over wifi and lets you control it from your iPhone in three unusual ways: by flicking your iPhone, waving your hand over it or making a 3D-model on your Mac mimic the movements of your iPhone in real space.” Link to Article

 

“Health IT startup claims pillbox app has boosted adherence rate to 81% in two months” January 2013 MediSafe “MediSafe Project, an Israeli health IT startup, says data it has collected since the November launch of the cloud-synced app for Androids and iPhones shows a patient adherence rate of 81 percent, according to an emailed company statement. That exceeds the 50 percent average medication adherence rates for patients taking medication for chronic illnesses in developing countries listed by the World Health Organization.” Link to Article

 

“Can digital health help crack one of healthcare’s hardest nuts?” January 2013 MediSafe “MediSafe recently stated that their app raised users’ adherence rate to 81 percent over the course of its first eight weeks that it was made available, and Vitality GlowCaps once reported pushing adherence rates to as high as 98 percent, both well above the World Health Organization average of 50 percent.” Link to Article

 

“‘Pillbox app’ helps boost medication adherence rates to 81%” January 2013 MediSafe “Israeli startup MediSafe Project announced last week that use of its free app has resulted in patients taking their medication on time at a 31 percent higher rate than the World Health Organization’s estimated average medication adherence rate of 50 percent.” Link to Article

 

“Mobile app ups elderly drug adherence” January 2013 MediSafe “Omri “Bob” Shor, chief executive officer of the MediSafe Project, said the cloud-synced mobile app helps families prevent emergencies caused by over- or under-dosing medications. In addition to reminding users when it’s time to take their medication, MediSafe Project sends alerts to selected family members, friends and caretakers when a loved one misses a dose.” Link to Article

 

“This App Prevents The #4 Cause Of Death In The U.S.” January 2013 MediSafe “Now there’s a new app that makes taking your Lipitor almost as fun as checking in on Foursquare–kinda. Rotem and Omri ‘Bob’ Shor, Israeli brothers and co-founders, were inspired to create the MediSafe Project app after their diabetic father double-dosed on his medication.” Link to Article

 

“Medical Compliance App Proves Power Of Friends, Family” January 2013 MediSafe “By letting friends and family know when a patient has not taken his or her meds, the MediSafe Project is seeing significant rises in adherence rates after its launch in November 2012. Users of the mobile app have reported an adherence rate of 81%, with Statin users’ adherence at nearly 85%, according to MediSafe.” Link to Article

 

“Spicebox’s Mauz tries to turn your iPhone into a 3D, gesture input device, but it isn’t ready” January 2013 Spicebox “Using the iPhone as a mouse isn’t exactly a new concept, but this implementation is more ambitious than most — Spicebox is offering an SDK for developers to integrate the Mauz into their apps. “Ambitious” also describes the next version of the Mauz, which Spicebox says will have some mysterious sensors that will work with the iPhone’s camera to better detect proximity for gesture controls.” Link to Article

 

“Mauz goes all ‘Minority Report’ as a mouse replacement” January 2013 Spicebox “The Mauz Kickstarter project gets a CES 2013 debut as a working prototype of the iPhone-based mouse replacement shows off its gesture-control technology.” Link to Article

 

“Rounds video-chat service expects millions of users from mobile” January 2013 Rounds “Rounds, a free video-chat service that is also a social network, expects to add tens of millions of users with the launch of its mobile phone application. Israel-based Rounds operates on top of existing platforms with the goal of bringing friends together irrespective of their preferred operating system or device.” Link to Article

 

“Rounds video-chat service expects millions of users from mobile” January 2013 Rounds “Rounds, a free video-chat service that is also a social network, expects to add tens of millions of users with the launch of its mobile phone application. Israel-based Rounds operates on top of existing platforms with the goal of bringing friends together irrespective of their preferred operating system or device.” Link to Article

 

“Mauz Magic Gesture-Control iPhone Dongle Now on Kickstarter” January 2013 Spicebox “Earlier today we posted a snippet about the Mauz dongle, and how it can turn your iPhone into a remote that can control your desktop through gestures, through either waving your iPhone around, or waving your hand over it. Now the Israeli-designed device has hit Kickstarter, with a funding goal of $150,000.” Link to Article

 

“Mauz turns iPhone into sophisticated computer mouse” January 2013 Spicebox “At the International Consumer Electronics Show, tech company Spicebox takes an extra step with Mauz, an “appcessory” that not only lets the phone function like a mouse, but adds motion gestures and visual cues through the front-facing camera. The Mauz, expected to sell for $60-$70, attaches to the connector on the bottom of an iPhone 4 or 4S (a version for iPhone 5 is in the works). After downloading a driver to your computer, you access a free app from iTunes, then pair the Mauz through a Wi-Fi connection.” Link to Article

 

“MediSafe Mobile Healthcare App Will Save Lives” January 2013 MediSafe “Back in mid-November 2012, we provided coverage of a new cloud- and big data-based mobile healthcare application, MediSafe Project, a very timely mobile app and larger-scale project designed to assist users in tracking the medications they take and in ensuring that users take their proper doses at exactly the times they need to do so.” Link to Article

 

“‘Rounds’ Video Chat Could Be Better Than Google Hangouts” January 2013 Rounds “If you’ve got an Android or iOS tablet or mobile phone, try Rounds Video Chat Hangout instead. You can scribble over or apply Instagram-like effects to your live video feeds. Plus, you can instantly upload pics from your devices and look at them together, while still seeing both your video feeds and live reactions. It’s more like hanging out in real life than anything that’s come before it.” Link to Article

 

“Mobile Health Around the Globe: MediSafe Helps Prevent Drug Emergencies” December 2012 MediSafe “MediSafe Project just launched the first cloud-based mobile app for medication compliance, helping patients and their families avoid medication errors and emergencies. MediSafe, based in Haifa, Israel, is an app available for Android and iPhones that reminds users to take their medications and alerts family members when they don’t.” Link to Article

 

“Download Health Apps to Your Phone” December 2012 MediSafe “MediSafe Project is the first-ever cloud-synced pillbox app that not only reminds you when it’s time to take your medication, but also sends your family, friends, and caretakers alerts if you miss a dose, leveraging the power of your support system to keep you healthier.” Link to Article

 

“This week @ Appscovery” December 2012 Rounds “Another week is behind Appscovery. We’re glad to report that app listings look better and better, and that soon enough pretty much all of the apps submitted will be marked as featured. In the meantime, here are the apps we want to highlight this week.” Link to Article

 

“Top 5 Apps for Good Health in 2013″ December 2012 MediSafe “MediSafe Project is the first-ever cloud-synced pillbox app that not only reminds you when it’s time to take your medication, but also sends your family, friends and caretakers alerts if you miss a dose, leveraging the power of your support system to keep you healthier.” Link to Article

 

“Two helpful products that improve medication compliance” December 2012 MediSafe “On November 14, the MediSafe Project launched the first-ever cloud-synced mobile app designed to help prevent emergencies caused by over- or under-dosing medications. The user friendly device is available for all Android devices, and compatible with iPhones and iPads.” Link to Article

 

“MediSafe Project – Mobile App For Medication Reminders” December 2012 MediSafe “That inspired MediSafe Project, a free cloud-synced mobile application – in both iOS (beta) and Android versions – that not only reminds users when it’s time to take their medication, but also sends their family, friends and caretakers alerts if they miss a dose.” Link to Article

 

“7 apps to help you enjoy the holiday season” December 2012 Rounds “For families and friends who can’t get together in person, the Hangout app not only facilitates a standard video chat, but also lets users watch YouTube videos together, upload photos for shared viewing and add Instagram-like effects to the media they share.” Link to Article

 

“Rounds Video Chat Hangout: a primeira rede social de vídeo-chat do mundo” – Portugal December 2012 Rounds “Rounds Video Chat Hangout é o novo conceito de rede social que a Rounds inventou. Aqui os utilizadores podem ver e comentar vídeos do YouTube em tempo real, partilhar momentos ou até mesmo rabiscar e alterar imagens de modo a ficarem ainda mais engraçadas.” Link to Article

 

“Rounds, primera red social para celulares” – Argentina December 2012 Rounds “La plataforma de Rounds, se ha convertido en líder al fusionar entretenimiento y comunicación para acercar más a la gente y tender un puente entre los mundos conectados a la red, cuenta con más de 6 millones de usuarios, los cuales pasan un promedio de 40 minutos en más de 1 millón de sesiones al día.” Link to Article

 

“Empresa israelense lança hangout para celular” – Brazil December 2012 Rounds “Apresentando as melhores experiências de hangout na web desde 2010, a Rounds (www.rounds.com) lançou hoje a versão móvel de sua plataforma de entretenimento social – disponível gratuitamente no mundo inteiro – chamada ‘Rounds Video Chat Hangout.’” Link to Article

 

“Rounds Video Chat Hangout, una nueva forma de intercambiar opiniones con tus amigos desde el móvil” – Spain December 2012 Rounds “Me contacta Levi Btzur de EMEA para presentarme su nuevo servicio móvil llamado Rounds Video Chat Hangout, que es una plataforma de entretenimiento y de videocomunicación en línea. Este nuevo servicio dispone de sus aplicaciones móviles para iOS y Android, donde ofrece una amplia variedad de efectos y actividades para fomentar divertidos intercambios en vivo entre amigos en sus dispositivos móviles.” Link to Article

 

“Rounds Video Chat Hangout, quedadas para móviles en iOS y Android” – Spain December 2012 Rounds “No hace mucho que los compañeros de FaqsAndroid.com hablaron sobre Wateque, la red social que permitía montar salas privadas de fiestas en la propia red para subir fotos y vídeos privados sólo accesibles para los asistentes, y hoy hablamos de Rounds Video Chat Hangout, la versión móvil para iOS y Android de Rounds, una red multiplataforma para fiestas y quedadas.” Link to Article

 

“Rounds Video Chat Hangout y comunicate con tus amigos gratis” – Spain December 2012 Rounds “Rounds presenta la versión para dispositivos móviles de su plataforma social de entretenimiento, disponible en todo el mundo de forma gratuita.Chatear, realziar videollamadas, compartir videos y además editarlos, crear imágenes divertidas y compartirlas al instante… todo ello desde la propia aplicación. 6 millones de usuarios actuales dan una idea del éxito de Rounds.” Link to Article

 

“Rounds: Red social divertida para celulares con iOS y Android” – Spain December 2012 Rounds “Rounds se presenta en sociedad como una red social divertida y muy completa para los usuarios de celulares con iOS y de equipos con Android 2.3.3 en adelante. De esta forma, si poseen un teléfono relativamente poderoso que tenga conexión a Internet, deberían probar este programa entretenido que fue pensado para que se diviertan día y noche jugando juegos, viendo videos locos y tomando fotografías graciosas con amigos.” Link to Article

 

“Red social divertida para celulares con iOS y Android” – Spain December 2012 Rounds “Rounds se presenta en sociedad como una red social divertida y muy completa para los usuarios de celulares con iOS y de equipos con Android 2.3.3 en adelante. De esta forma, si poseen un teléfono relativamente poderoso que tenga conexión a Internet, deberían probar este programa entretenido que fue pensado para que se diviertan día y noche jugando juegos, viendo videos locos y tomando fotografías graciosas con amigos.” Link to Article

 

“Rounds: Una red social divertida para celulares Android” – Spain December 2012 Rounds “Es divertido recomendar redes sociales para nuestros celulares Android que sean diferentes a Facebook y Twitter, ya que las mismas nos permiten conocer gente nueva que no esté relacionada.” Link to Article

 

“Rounds: “quedadas” a traves del smartphone” – Spain December 2012 Rounds “Ofreciendo las mejores experiencias de quedadas en la red desde 2010, Rounds (www.rounds.com) acaba de lanzar la versión para dispositivos móviles de su plataforma social de entretenimiento, disponible en todo el mundo de forma gratuita, denominada ‘Rounds Video Chat Hangout’.” Link to Article

 

“Una aplicacion, tawkon, para medir las radiaciones” – Spain December 2012 Tawkon The magazine can be read online. Link to Article (page 62).

 

“MediSafe Family Pill Reminder ” – Brazil December 2012 MediSafe “MediSafe Family Pill Reminder é um aplicativo que pode ser usado para você se lembrar dos remédios que precisa tomar. Além disso, o programa conta com um recurso incrível: você pode gerenciar remotamente o controle de medicamento de outras pessoas, como seu filho ou companheiro.” Link to Article

 

“MediSafe lanza la primera app caja de pastillas para evitar emergencias médicas” – Spain December 2012 MediSafe “Me contacta Levi Btzur para presentarme una revolucionaria aplicación, que la gente de MediSafe Project ha lanzado recientemente y que lleva la famosa caja de pastillas a los dispositivos móviles.” Link to Article

 

“MediSafe, una aplicación que no dejará que te ovides de tomar tu medicación” – Spain December 2012 MediSafe “Hace ya mucho tiempo que los móviles dejaron de servir sólo para llamar y enviar mensajes. Además de incorporar cada vez más un hardware más potente, son las aplicaciones las que le dan “vida” a tu terminal. Y son muchas las apps que nos hacen la vida más fácil, un ejemplo de ello es MediSafe.” Link to Article

 

“Una App Le Recuerda La Hora Y La Dosis De Su Medicina” – Spain December 2012 MediSafe “Existe una app para todo, es por eso que MediSafe Project ha lanzado recientemente la primera aplicación móvil sincronizada en la nube que no solo recuerda a los usuarios que se tienen que tomar la medicación, sino que también envía alertas a su familia, amigos y cuidadores si se pierden una dosis, complementando el poder de los sistemas de ayuda de las personas para mantenerlas sanas.” Link to Article

 

“Control de tus medicamentos y los de los demás con MediSafe para Android” – Spain December 2012 MediSafe “En el mundo cada día son más las personas que fallecen por no tomar los medicamentos o abusar de estos, por eso Medisafe Project ha creado su aplicación de gestión de tratamientos con la que podremos llevar un control exhaustivo sobre nuestros horarios o los de las personas que más nos preocupan con la posibilidad de recibir alertas, en caso de que no se tomen y marquen las medicinas adecuadas los familiares recibirán una notificación para estar alerta, os hablamos de MediSafe.” Link to Article

 

“30 Best iPhone and iPad apps this week” November 2012 Rounds “This popped up in last week’s Android roundup, but it’s since been officially launched for iPhone too. It’s a free video-chat app that ties in Facebook to connect to friends. Besides basic video chat there are photo-sharing features and the ability to watch YouTube videos or listen to music with those contacts.” Link to Article

 

“Why Have A Woman/Tech Blog?” – by Audrey Melnik November 2012 WotWentWrong “A few months ago, when I was approached to write for a women/tech blog, I noticed one overarching theme as I studied its posts – Why aren’t there more women in tech?…How to attract more women to tech, etc. It seemed rather specific to me. I didn’t feel I could add anything particularly original beyond what was stated – but more importantly, I wasn’t sure I agreed with the rhetoric.” Link to Article

 

“An American dies every 19 minutes from skipping medication or over taking meds” – by Brawlin Melgar November 2012 MediSafe “The MediSafe Project is the first cloud-synced mobile app that reminds users when it’s time to take their medication. PLUS it sends selected family, friends and caretakers alerts if they miss a dose. It is simple to use, and available for Android devices and is compatible with iPhones and iPads (as an alpha version).” Link to Article

 

“Time to Take Your Medicine? There’s an App for That!” November 2012 MediSafe “On Wednesday, MediSafe Project introduced to market a groundbreaking cloud-synced mobile app that not only reminds users when it’s time to take their medication, but also sends their family, friends and caretakers alerts if they miss a dose.” Link to Article

 

“App For Medication – MediSafe” November 2012 MediSafe “MediSafe, an app for medication, helps patients take their medicine on time, even alerting them about prescription refills. The app goes a step further to loop in the patient’s family and friends, to improve the patient’s overall health and wellness.” Link to Article

 

“Cloud synced mobile health app could offer pharma industry insights on patient adherence” – by Stephanie Baum November 2012 MediSafe “The Israeli startup MediSafe Project launched its mobile health app for Androids and iPhones to help people keep track of their medication dosages. But it is also designed to provide potentially valuable insights for pharmaceutical companies tracking patient adherence.” Link to Article

 

“Two helpful products that improve medication compliance” – by Robin Wulffson, M.D. November 2012 MediSafe “On November 14, the MediSafe Project launched the first-ever cloud-synced mobile app designed to help prevent emergencies caused by over- or under-dosing medications. The user friendly device is available for all Android devices, and compatible with iPhones and iPads. It not only reminds users when it is time to take their medication but also incorporates families’, friends’, and caretakers’ intervention instincts by sending them alerts when a loved one misses a dose.” Link to Article

 

“How Ads Track You on Your Smartphone” – by Tim Peterson November 2012 MassiveImpact “To be clear, Apple hasn’t unlocked a new market. If anything, it’s following Google’s lead. The native Android browser permits cookie dropping, and companies can track the unique IDs of devices running the mobile operating system, said Sephi Shapira, CEO of MassiveImpact, a mobile ad network. When it comes to being able to access a device identifier, he said, ‘Android is a nonissue.’” Link to Article

 

“Apple and the Desire for Control” – by David Streitfeld November 2012 Tawkon “As with most mall owners, Apple screens out those businesses it judges unworthy or inappropriate. Perhaps it is not surprising that a 2010 app from Tawkon, an Israeli start-up, did not make the grade; it estimated the amount of radiation the iPhone was emitting. “No interest,” Steve Jobs, Apple chief executive, e-mailed Tawkon, according to the company. An Android version of the app has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times and gets generally good reviews. “We believe that Steve Jobs didn’t want to associate the iPhone with anything that could have a potential health risk,” a Tawkon cofounder, Gil Friedlander, said in an e-mail. “That said, Tawkon, as our name infers (‘talk-on’), was always a great advocate of mobile phones while empowering users (adults & kids) to use them responsibly.” Link to Article

 

“Is Your Cell Phone Killing You?” – by Fox News November 2012 Tawkon Laura Ingle interviews Dr. Debra Davis and Tawkon co-founder and VP Amit Lubovsky. Link to Video

 

“Catching up with radiation-detecting startup Tawkon, 6 months on from launch” – by Martin Bryant November 2012 Tawkon “Tawkon is a startup focused on helping mobile phone users avoid potentially dangerous radiation. So how has 2012 progressed for the team there since they launched at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam earlier this year?” Link to Article

 

“Profile: MassiveImpact” – by Stephanie Weaver November 2012 MassiveImpact “One of the most impressive companies we met at ad:tech New York was MassiveImpact, the brainchild of Sephi Shapira. Launched in 2010, MassiveImpact now has five operational sites around the world, including offices in Israel, Taiwan and New York. The mobile advertising company also reaches more than one billion mobile Internet users across 190 countries, making it the largest performance mobile advertising platform available. It’s impressive to think that one man’s idea has gained so much worldwide success in only two years, but it’s thanks to MassiveImpact’s innovative marketing services and Shapira’s dedication to his clients.” Link to Article

 

“Move over Ann Landers” – by Fatima Arkin October 2012 WotWentWrong “One of the appeals of crowd-sourcing relationship advice is that it’s less filtered than an advice column, according to Audrey Melnik, CEO of WotWentWrong.com, the San Francisco-based website that created Impressions. ‘Someone will send in their issues and the advice columnist will choose to respond only to a subset of those,’ she says. ‘Where Impressions and WotWentWrong allows everyone to contribute and you get advice.’ Link to Article

 

“Dublin Web Summit Picks SmartThings Out Of 100-Strong Startup Competition” – by Mike Butcher October 2012 Tawkon “Tawkon encourages mobile users to control their exposure to mobile radiation. tawkon (as in, “talk on”) created a sophisticated mobile technology allowing users to minimize exposure to mobile phone radiation with- out reducing usage. tawkon monitors the level of radiation you’re exposed to and provides simple real-time prompts to avoid radiation exposure just when necessary.” Link to Article

 

“Gil Friedlander from Tawkon talks about the radiation-tracking app for mobiles” – by Carmel Doyle October 2012 Tawkon “Set up four years ago, Tawkon works solely on Android devices and is available on Google Play. The app has been refused admission to the Apple App Store and even once got a direct rejection from Steve Jobs, according to Friedlander. Via the Tawkon app, Friedlander says mobile phone users get a warning when their phone’s radiation levels peak when the device is close to the body.” Link to Article

 

“Startups move forward after summit” – by Lauren Hise October 2012 Tawkon “Tawkon is a mobile app that helps people to talk on, as much as they want, on their mobile phones while letting them know these very instances that mobile radiation spikes during the call. It’s actually an anti-virus for cellphone radiation,” he explained. Once a user is alerted to a spike in radiation they can adjust their position, plug in a headset or move locations to return to a safer level.” Link to Article

 

“Europe’s 100 hottest startups 2012: Tel Aviv” – Wired magazine October 2012 Tawkon “Steve Jobs turned down Amit Lubovsky, Gil Friedlander and Ori Goshen personally when they pitched to the app store last year, so the Tawkon founders are now concentrating on Android to sell their tool that measures radiation emitting from smartphones.” Link to Article

 

“App lets strangers weigh in on why relationships go wrong” – by Natasha Baker October 2012 WotWentWrong “With Impressions people can create a timeline of their relationships and mark milestones, such as their first date or kiss, and embed polls to get feedback and advice on everything from the significance of a text to dealing with arguments.” Link to Article

 

“tawkon: wellness phone tracker” – by Anna Grace October 2012 Tawkon “The app design is impressive and everything it’s in its right place: browse through the main menu and access to your phone information as well as your family’s and friends’. After a few calls, the data will appear and you will be able to analyze your radiation exposure.” Link to Article

 

“LoveAndPride.com has donated over $400,000 to LGBT cause through commerce site” – by Erik Hayden October 2012 Love and Pride “LoveandPride was founded to celebrate the power of passion, creativity, and action. The company believes every human being is entitled to equal rights, and they recognize that diversity is what makes us who we are. They continue to promote tolerance and respect for all. Founder Udi Behr interviews with dot429 about his motivations and challenges.” Link to Article

 

“The more you know: Knowledge management can be a crucial component for startup success” September 2012 nanoRep “Knowledge should be used as a company asset. Early-stage startup companies should understand this so when they build the foundation of the company, knowledge management is a core focal point. Knowledge management initiatives that are focused on corporate strategic business goals can provide significant ROI and long-term competitive advantage by improving the total customer experience.” Link to Article

 

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“Tu Nguyen of Gongshow Gear: Providing Automated Real-Time Customer Service” – by Brent Leary September 2012 nanoRep “Nanorep is a cloud-based customer service app we use that fits right into that social model I was talking about. Customers want things quick, and we have to find some way to answer them quickly. So the service is really working well for us. It was really set up for a small business and it is easy to use and maintain.” Link to Article

 

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“Staying Productive While On the Go: 10 Must Have Mobile Apps” – by Raymond Ray September 2012 iOnRoad “An Advanced Driving Assistance System (ADAS) app that will quickly become your personal driving assistant. Advanced Collision Warning, Headway Distance Monitoring & Alert and SMS and Notification Narrator are only a few of the great features of this app. This app is only available for android devices as of this writing.” Link to Article

 

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“LGBT-focused fashion e-retailer loveandpride unveils mobile apps” – by Bill Siwicki September 2012 Love and Pride “Loveandpride, an e-retailer of jewelry and fashion that targets the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community, has introduced shopping apps for Apple Inc. iPhones and iPod Touch devices and mobile devices running Google Inc.’s Android. This follows the launch in April of the merchant’s mobile commerce site, built with m-commerce technology provider Zuznow.” Link to Article

 

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“Philadelphia Jewelry Designer Shows His Support For Marriage Equality” – by Chelsea Karnash September 2012 Love and Pride “Here in Philadelphia, one local jewelry designer has been continually outspoken in his support for marriage equality while still managing to stay out of the spotlight. Udi Behr, the co-founder and chief designer of Philly-based jewelry design company loveandpride, has raised nearly $400,000 for the LGBT community in the seven years since the company was formed. He’s donated a portion of every sale to the customer’s choice of LGBT charities, and he’s also designed special pieces to raise money for organizations like the Matthew Shepard Foundation and the Human Rights Campaign.” Link to Article

 

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“Tawkon allows parents to keep an eye on their kids’ cellphone radiation exposure” – by Asmita Prasad August 2012 Tawkon “It is common knowledge that exposure to excessive cellphone radiation can cause health ailments. However, most of us simply do not know how much radio frequency it too much. To allow people to keep a check on how much cellphone radiation they are being exposed to and when it has reached a dangerous level, techies Gil Friedlander, Amit Lubovsky and Ori Goshen created a simple app called Tawkon. The app basically extracts and collects data from a user’s cellphone by analyzing factors like the phone model, signal strength, channels and network type and figures out the amount of radiation the cellphone is emitting.” Link to Article

 

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“Saving texters from themselves” – by Matt Brownell August 2012 iOnRoad “iOnRoad not only reads texts aloud, but also turns your phone into a collision-warning system. Mount it below your rearview mirror and the app uses your phone’s camera to monitor both your position in the lane and the distance to the car in front of you.” Link to Article

 

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“The art of the digital breakup” – by Lisa Bonos August 2012 WotWentWrong “For those who don’t get so much as a rejection text, Audrey Melnik has a tool to help them find out what they might have said or done to turn someone off. Through her Web site, WotWentWrong.com, singles can send messages to dates who’ve disappeared, requesting feedback. A recipient can write his own response or choose from prepackaged answers, including: ‘Too much fighting; You are selfish; You don’t make me feel attractive; You text instead of calling.’” Link to Article

 

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“An App For Parents Concerned About Cell Phone Radiation” – by Brad Moon August 2012 Tawkon “Tawkon is an app that was designed to take the guesswork out of cellphone radiation levels under different conditions, different usage levels and for different devices. Rather than scaring people away from using their smartphone, the aim is to monitor exposure levels and alert users when it’s time to consider using a Bluetooth headset or continuing their conversation in an area with better reception.” Link to Article

 

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“Israeli LGBT Activist Makes Jewelry to Support Equal Rights” – by Gideon Grudo August 2012 Love and Pride “Three LGBT hopefuls in the upcoming elections received $850 each on Sunday, June 27 from loveandpride.com. The donation was part of a seventh anniversary celebration for LoveandPride, but it also came weeks after the company’s partnership with Marriage Equality USA (MEUSA) and the unveiling of a new line of pendants supporting equal marriage rights.” Link to Article

 

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“There’s hope for the dumped” – by Heidi Patalano August 2012 WotWentWrong “Audrey Melnik, CEO of WotWentWrong.com, had had enough of that. Fed up with the anguish she and her friends experienced when they were kicked to the curb with no explanation, she was determined to find a productive and socially acceptable method of getting feedback from those who had ended things. The result is a website that helps the dumped compose what Melnik describes as a “nonchalant, not clingy” email that politely asks the one who did the dumping for full disclosure.” Link to Article

 

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“App piracy in China hurts developers’ bottom lines” – by Roger Yu August 2012 iOnRoad “Losing control of your app can be dangerous in many ways,” says Atsmon, whose other product, iOnRoad, the free version of a distracted driver prevention app, was also taken by the same Chinese app store without approval. “You don’t know how many downloads. There’s no control for changing or updating the app.” Link to Article

 

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“FCC Should Reassess Its Advice on Cell Phone Radio-Frequency Limits” – by Michelle Maisto August 2012 Tawkon “At least one app in the Google Play market now takes on the issue. Called Tawkon, it “alerts you when your phone levels spike, and offers tips to help you lower it. Tawkon empowers you to live a healthier lifestyle,” says its description in the app store.” Link to Article

 

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“Is it safe to carry your smartphone in your pocket?” – by Matthew Miller August 2012 Tawkon “There is a free Android app, Tawkon, that uses algorithms to try to inform you when you are likely experiencing significant radiation levels. It looks like the app only measures this for calls with the warning to use a headset. I understand they are working on an updated version to predict radiation levels for data usage and that is what I am primarily interested in.” Link to Article

 

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“Review: Tawkon – Reducing Signal Radiation” August 2012 Tawkon “You can imagine how much help this application is if you talk on the phone a lot to make business calls or a lot of personal/family phone calls. Tawkon has vowed that they have used state of the art technology to confirm that this application works. It was even approved and validated in an FCC RF (radio frequency) lab if that tells you anything.” Link to Article

 

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“7 Ways to Generate Revenue with Customer Support” August 2012 nanoRep “The proliferation of self-service tools will further expedite answer flow and heighten conversion rates for savvy businesses. Companies should consider the following guidelines when devising their online customer service strategy.” Link to Article

 

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“How Fashion Can Spur Marriage Equality Momentum” – by Udi Behr July 2012 Love and Pride “In loveandpride’s short history, we’ve been consistently active in fighting for the community on all fronts — designing special jewelry pieces to raise awareness about LGBT discrimination in our military, the dangers of bullying, and replacing hate with tolerance — and coordinating them with media-friendly stunts to maximize attention.” Link to Article

 

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“Apps to avoid speed traps, collisions, and high gas prices” – by Stephanie Hockridge July 2012 iOnRoad “If you think that’s handy, wait until you see what iOnRoad can do. The multiple award-winning smartphone app calls itself an advanced-collision warning system. Once you mount your phone on the windshield, the app uses the phone’s camera and sensors to detect if you get too close to the car in front of you.” Link to Article

 

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Audrey Melnik on Fox News LA July 2012 WotWentWrong WotWentWrong founder Audrey Melnik is interviewed on the Fox News affiliate in Los Angeles Link to Video

 

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“How Android Phone Owners Use Their Devices” – by Kate Freeman July 2012 Tawkon “Tawkon, an Android app that measures how much radiation your phone is emitting, and by the company inneractive, which is a mobile app monetization exchange, created this infographic based on Tawkon’s data for Android devices. This data was gathered from Tawkon’s millions of daily data points over a period of several months.” Link to Article

 

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“Let’s Talk About This Statement Necklace” – by Rebecca Santiago June 2012 Love and Pride “It’s the brainchild of loveandpride.com, an LGBT e-commerce website, and Marriage Equality USA, a nonprofit organization fighting for legally recognized civil marriage equality. The chain sports two charms–one for you, one for your partner–shaped like silver dog tags. The design is a nod to the overturning of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in September. All proceeds from the $39 pendant go to Marriage Equality USA.” Link to Article

 

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“Road Trip Travel Apps” – by Tiffany McCall June 2012 ionRoad “ionRoad is a free app for Android phones that claims to turn your smartphone into a personal driving assistant. Once you download the app and mount the phone in its holder, it uses the phone’s camera, GPS and other sensors to monitor distance from another car.” Link to Article

 

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“New website helps daters get it right” – by Tanya Lewis June 2012 WotWentWrong “Almost everyone has been left perplexed about what went wrong with at least one dating experience, so Audrey Melnik, CEO of WotWentWrong, decided to create a platform for feedback from dating partners to address why things didn’t work out. She hired The Cline Group for the launch campaign.” Link to Article

 

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“Best augmented reality (AR) apps for Android” – by Alvin Ybañez June 2012 iOnRoad “Most Android phones can be used as maps to navigate while driving, but do you know that your Android phone can also keep you safe on the road? Introducing your road guardian, iOnRoad Augmented Driving Lite. This app utilizes the phone’s front camera, GPS, and sensors to keep you safe on the road.” Link to Article

 

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“My First Gay Wedding” – by Udi Behr June 2012 Love and Pride “Sometimes you learn lessons in school, or at church — but I learn my lessons from life. I learned it from my dad — and as long as I can and have the means, I will fight for equality, acceptance, tolerance, and what always guides me in life — love.” Link to Article

 

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“What’s Trending with Yahoo! Shine” – by Anderson Cooper June 2012 WotWentWrong “Not sure what went wrong in your past relationship? Jennifer says this site allows you to find out what went wrong by sending a survey to your ex. Would you be willing to try it?” Link to Article

 

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“Have Music, Will Travel” – by Rod L. Wilson June 2012 A Sound Strategy “Jeter founded Assi in 2004 and built a software program called siteMaster, which gives non-tech savvy clients like Wilner a less intimidating way to manage the content on their websites, along with the ability to manage their inventory via a user-friendly online platform.” Link to Article

 

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“Fill up on apps for your summer travel” – by Roger Yu June 2012 iOnRoad “iOnRoad is a distracted-driver prevention app that uses the phone’s built-in camera, GPS, accelerometer and gyroscope to display your car’s position in relation to the driving lane and the car directly in front.” Link to Article

 

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“Up-to-Date Tricks for Aging Wheels” – by John R. Quain May 2012 iOnRoad “Called iOnRoad Augmented Driving Pro, the $4.99 program uses a phone’s video camera stream, GPS feature, accelerometer and gyroscope to monitor the car’s position on the road. A car cradle mount, which typically costs $20 to $30, is required for the phone. A power adapter cable is recommended to keep it charged.” Link to Article

 

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“Why People Break Up: Most Common Reasons For Splits” – by The Huffington Post May 2012 WotWentWrong “But there are also some long-standing truths behind why relationships end, and WotWentWrong.com, an app that helps people figure out exactly those reasons, has taken the anonymous information from its users and put it together into one handy infographic.” Link to Article

 

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“Top 10 Reasons Why We’re Dumped” – by Piper Weiss May 2012 WotWentWrong “The results are based on more than 500 male and female users of Wot Went Wrong, a reverse dating site that allows exes to get and give answers about unsuccessful relationships. In a period of four months, 15 percent of female users got the “not ready” response– the kind of reason that makes you want to ask more questions. But you might not want to dig too deep.” Link to Article

 

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“Distracted driving prevention app iOnRoad wins CTIA award” – by Roger Yu May 2012 iOnRoad “iOnRoad, a distracted driver prevention app from an Israel-based company, turned some heads at the International CTIA Wireless 2012 conference last week, winning an award for the most innovative product in the transportation category.” Link to Article

 

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“Love and Pride: How I, a Straight Man, Fight for LGBT Rights” – by Udi Behr May 2012 Love and Pride “I knew I had to become a force to help bring about the acceptance and approval of legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S. But how was I going to contribute? I realized I could use my talent as a jewelry designer to create pieces that were as much social statements as they were fashion statements.” Link to Article

 

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“Improve your website with translation technology” – by Fox News May 2012 One Hour Translation “Two thirds of Internet users are not English speakers, so how can your company adapt?” Link to Video

 

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“9 Tips, Not Too Flattering, For Doing Business In U.S.” – by Sean Kilachand May 2012 One Hour Translation “A few weeks ago, with the help of the folks at One Hour Translation (or OHT for short), I posted some tips for conducting business abroad in a number of countries, including Argentina, Germany, China, India and Brazil. As a follow up to that post, OHT has provided me with another list that hits closer to home: tips for conducting business within the United States.” Link to Article

 

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“Hello from Microsoft’s Think Next conference in Tel Aviv, Israel” – by Drew Olanoff May 2012 ionRoad “Zack Weisfeld of Microsoft R&D tells me that the Think Next conference is the biggest tech conference in Israel, and it expects over 2,000 participants to check out the companies showing off cutting edge products like iOnRoad.” Link to Article

 

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“Microsoft Israel’s Best & Brightest on Parade at ThinkNext Tel-Aviv” – by Roi Carthy May 2012 ionRoad “iOnRoad develops apps that improve driving in real-time using state-of-the-art machine vision algorithms and augmented reality.” Link to Article

 

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“CTIA Wireless 2012: A Show of a Different Color” – by Jeff Kagan May 2012 ionRoad “You clip your smartphone to the dashboard of your car, and it measures the distance to the car in front of you. It also measures and alerts you to fast or slow lane changes.” Link to Article

 

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“Making Friends, Influencing People for Israel” – by Bryan Schwartzman May 2012 American-Israeli Chamber of Commerce “Just last week, the America-Israel Chamber of Commerce honored Kutner and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter with its Yitzhak Rabin award for efforts at facilitating bi-national cooperation. Kutner was cited for raising public awareness of Israel’s hi-tech sector in civic, academic and business circles. “Link to Article

 

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“Technopolist TV” – by Jonathan Margolis April 2012 iOnRoad “This software promotes road safety — and remembers where you parked. Jonathan Margolis takes to the open road with an app that vividly depicts the near-future of augmented reality.”Link to Article

 

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“App Smart Extra: Drunk 2.0″ – by Bob Tedeschi March 2012 Intoxicase “Beer connoisseurs who are looking to more deeply explore their passion will find many good apps for the task, as I’ve pointed out in the past. One of the newest additions to the category, Intoxicase, will help log your brew consumption, but the app’s developer has also released a protective case that beer drinkers will most likely find more intoxicating than the app.”Link to Article

 

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“iOnRoad Augmented Driving (for Android)” – By Jamie Lendino March 2012 iOnRoad Overall, iOnRoad offers a bevy of interesting features you won’t find in typical GPS navigation apps. I don’t want to damn it with faint praise by calling it a fun distraction, because it actually enhances driving safety. Over time, I’ll be keeping an eye on this app to see how it evolves; for now, it’s worth installing… Link to Article

 

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“3 demos that truly impressed at Mobile World Congress” – By Kevin Fitchard March 2012 iOnRoad “This small Israeli startup is taking an emerging mobile technology — augmented reality — and applying it to an established mobile service: vehicle navigation. iOnRoad doesn’t just want drivers to look at their smartphones while driving; it wants them to look through the lens of their devices, seeing an enhanced view of the road ahead of them.” Link to Article

 

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“Introducing … the Intoxicase” – by Whitney Matheson March 2012 Intoxicase “Download the Intoxicase app, and it’ll tell you how many bottles you’ve opened with your phone, what your blood alcohol level is and where you parked your car. It’ll also give the number for the nearest cab company.” Link to Article

 

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“Pitfalls To Watch For When Conducting Business Abroad” – by Sean Kilachand March 2012 One Hour Translation “Using data compiled by the firm One Hour Translation, we have created a slideshow highlighting foreign-market specific tips in 10 different countries to which American companies have been flocking.” Link to Article

 

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“Intoxicase: The Drinking Person’s iPhone Case and App” – By Harry McCracken February 2012 Intoxicase “The app has many features, most of which work even if you don’t have the case. A representative of Spicebox, the company behind Intoxicase, told me that it “[balances] social with responsibility,” which seems to be a way of saying that it’s for people who like to drink a lotof beer — it includes a Bottle-O-Meter that goes all the way to “Wasted” and logs how much brew you’ve drunk in gallons — but also has a feature that lets you call a cab. (Then again, it also has a feature that lets you find where you parked your car.)” Link to Article

 

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“Is Your Website Lost in Translation?” – by Mikal E. Belicove February 2012 One Hour Translation “But there’s a problem. Website translation widgets are unreliable, often producing content that’s littered with incorrect word usage, grammar and punctuation, and that can inadvertently insult your customers. Think about it. Would you do business with or buy from a site that has inaccurate grammar and is poorly written? Of course not. Ofer Shosan, CEO and co-founder of OneHourTranslation.com, a site that crowdsources language translation services, says businesses face many challenges when they deal with translation of their website content.” Link to Article

 

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“Intoxicase Opens Your Bottles and Tallies Your Level of Debauchery” – By Andrew Tarantola February 2012 Intoxicase “Spending an afternoon drinking in the alley with your favorite neighbors is all well and good, but around the 8th bottle of Alamo things might get hazy. The Intoxicase for iPhone not only tracks how many man sodas you’ve consumed, it will even crack you open a freshie as well.” Link to Article

 

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“Spicebox Intoxicase Plus” – By Eugene Kim February 2012 Intoxicase “There are cases that will protect your iPhone 4S and there are those that will add extra functionality you didn’t even know you needed. The Intoxicase Plus ($45 direct) is the latter, not only protecting your iPhone, but also adding a clever bottle opener to the back. This is a case for all the beer lovers out there and will ensure that nothing stands between you and your bubbly brew.” Link to Article

 

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