Israel is well known for both developing and buying some of the most advanced military tech in existence. Now, arms of the nation’s government have begun using two of the tech community’s favorite social media sites in order to explain and defend its recent actions.
Israeli Journalists Insult Dutch Via Translation
Online translation tools have their uses, but substituting for an actual translation service when sending diplomatic messages across international borders shouldn’t be one of them.
Google Invests In Israeli R&D Center
Google, as we know it, is pretty much an American corporation. You hear things from Google India, and some pieces of news will originate in Google Australia, but otherwise, it’s pretty quiet out there. Now things have picked up in one very calm corner of the world – Google is adding a second research and development center in Israel.
Israeli PM Gets The Google Bomb
Prime Minister Ehud Ohmert learned that the benevolence of Google can rapidly sour if one’s critics emulate their politically charged American counterparts and tag one’s name with a less-than-flattering phrase.