Monday, April 16, 2012

Google Street View in Israel to go online

JTA

Google's Street View in Israel will go online next week.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Israeli female scientist is top young researcher

by Meredith Mandell, JTA

JERUSALEM — She’s young, smart and aims to help treat life-threatening diseases.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Hackers strike Israel again

An international group of pro-Palestinian hackers said they leaked the credit card details of thousands of Israelis in an escalation of cyber attacks. . .

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Palestinians say hackers hit Internet services

Reuters

Hackers disrupted Palestinian Internet services in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the Palestinian telecoms minister said, alleging that a. . .

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Israeli mission to moon for Google contest demands appeal to local donors

By Ryan Torok

Kfir Damari, Yonatan Winetraub and Yariv Bash were in Los Angeles last week in an effort to raise $10 million for the construction of a robot that. . .

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Apple removes free ‘Thirdintifada’ from App Store

JTA

Apple Inc. removed the Arabic-language "Thirdintifada" application from its App Store following a request from the Israeli government.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Google ordered to stop recommending anti-Semitic sites

JTA

A court in Buenos Aires has ordered Google to stop recommending anti-Semitic and racist websites to users. The injunction issued May 17 comes. . .

Monday, May 16, 2011

Mass graves database to go online

JTA

Information gleaned from Father Patrick Desbois' years-long search for mass Jewish graves in Eastern Europe will be made available on a database.. . .

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

JTA launches online archive with a quarter-million articles

JTA

JTA has launched a digital archive containing 250,000 articles dating from 1923. The JTA Jewish News Archive, which is searchable and free for the. . .

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

World Press Freedom Day: New technology’s threats and potential

by Felice Friedson/The Media Line

Newspaper readers might notice an empty white space in place of front page stories in their favorite broadsheets and tabloids on Wednesday morning.. . .

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Facebook sued for $1 billion over Third Intifada page

JTA

Facebook and its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg are being sued for more than $1 billion for not immediately taking down a page calling for a Third. . .

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Israeli, Palestinian peace advocates connect online

By Ryan Torok

A social networking site recently featured Israelis, Palestinians and others chatting together online about the crisis in Libya and its implications. . .

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Facebook removes Third Intifada page

JTA

Facebook has removed a page calling for a third Palestinian uprising against Israel, but a new one quickly took its place. Nearly 350,000 people had. . .

Monday, March 28, 2011

Facebook to monitor intifada page, won’t remove it

JTA

Facebook will monitor a page calling for a third Palestinian uprising against Israel but will not remove it. "Third Palestinian Intifada,". . .

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Remove intifada page, Edelstein asks Facebook’s Zuckerberg

JTA

An Israeli government minister has called on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to remove a page calling for a third Palestinian intifada.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Grant contest will award Jewish day schools new classroom technology

By Rachel Heller

Jewish day schools in the Los Angeles area have until April 1 to take part in a unique contest that will award grants of up to $25,000 for. . .

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Should frozen sperm be used to create posthumous grandchildren?

By Michelle Goldberg, Tablet

Last fall, 27-year-old Ohad Ben-Yaakov was injured in an accident at his part-time job, and he died after two weeks in a coma. Ben-Yaakov wasn’t. . .

Monday, March 21, 2011

Facebook purchases Israeli start-up

Facebook is purchasing its first Israeli company, a start-up called Snaptu. Facebook will pay an estimated $60 million to $70 million, according to. . .

Monday, March 14, 2011

Jewish digital media projects awarded grants

JTA

The Jewish New Media Innovation Fund has announced $500,000 in grants to nine digital media projects. The projects are designed to engage 18- to. . .

Monday, February 28, 2011

Orthodox grapple with ubiquity of Internet

By Ben Harris, JTA

For Josh, a Brooklyn computer technician who deals almost exclusively with a haredi Orthodox clientele, it was quite the conundrum: A man brings his. . .

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg obtains restraining order against alleged stalker

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has obtained a restraining order against Pradeep Manukonda, who allegedly stalked the billionaire and his family asking. . .

Friday, February 4, 2011

Jewish group claims Hamas hacked its website

JTA

The website of the Jewish People Policy Institute was hacked Thursday by a group that the institute claims is affiliated with Hamas. The JPPI, a. . .

Monday, January 31, 2011

Technion gets $5 million to develop a better battery

JTA

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has given the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology a $5 million grant to further develop a. . .

Monday, January 24, 2011

Yad Vashem launches Farsi YouTube chanel

JTA

Yad Vashem has launched a YouTube channel in Farsi and an expanded version of its Farsi website. The Farsi YouTube channel launched Sunday contains. . .