Israeli customs blocking 'non-compliant' iPad

Someone once said that it's very hard to get gracefully down off one's high horse.  So it is with the recent Israeli ban on importing iPads.

Israel’s iPad injunction over Wi-Fi issues is baffling the international community, including Israelis in Israel’s highly developed technology sector who are itching to develop new iPad apps and have a real iPad to immediately test them on, rather than relying on SDKs and emulated environments.

Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy LogicThe much rumoured iPad mini is about to be unveiled, and despite the expectation it will arrive with some new Mac brethren, the iPad mini or potential iPad Air is the big small-screen wonder everyone’s talking about!

Israel has been called “The Startup Nation” by some and, indeed, that was even the title of a fascinating book by journalists Dan Senor and Saul Singer. Israel’s ability to churn out technology companies is the stuff of legend and, as usual, this year’s showing by companies from the country at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco is as strong as ever. Here’s a run-

A Customs and Border Protection operation that monitored online pharmaceutical suppliers has led to raids on four houses in Adelaide that found 35,000 cold and flu tablets as part of a suspected pseudoephedrine importing syndicate.

Just as much of a hit the iPad has been in consumer, it’s been almost bigger as an enterprise tool at the highest reaches of business.

In the never-ending legal war on Android by Apple, the latter succeeded in making HTC change some code around on their One X line of phones, and successfully delayed the launch of the HTC Evo 4G LTE by a couple of weeks due to a patent infringement lawsuit that HTC essentially lost. But that’s all Apple got since the AT&T HTC One X and the Evo 4G LTE have both been cleared by U.S.

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Having just noticed my Country on the ambassador list has been changed from England (which is a country) to UK (which is not), I felt I should educate the people who obviously are having difficulty about what a country is.

The Victorian and Israeli governments today launched the seventh round of funding by the Victoria-Israel Science & Technology R&D Fund (VISTECH), which offers Victorian companies and organisations potential funding for projects working with ICT partner companies in Israel.