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While it seems like there aren’t many fresh-minded, dynamic and young spirited companies left around, a new young and decisive start-up named FUN Development Games arises and does some great stuff. FUN launched their new website and product this week. The product – a social gaming platform, offers some good and innovative news to the players on the net.

Tersus is an open source Visual Programming Platform for creating rich web applications. Simply draw flow diagrams and Tersus will bring your application to life. You can Build and run a first web application within minutes without having any coding or scripting knowledge, and Not only English – support for any language!

Imagine you just know where your friends amp; like-minded people are. You can see what they see amp; discuss the same things. You visit a web page and instantly hear what a group of your friends, experts and other web users say about this site, page or topic. As you browse you discover new sites, ask questions, get help amp; recommendations, read amp; rate reviews and ideas. You might even help others and speak-up your own mind.

KonoLive, the instant collaboration software, announced its global launch today at DEMO 08, the premier launch venue for new products, technologies and companies. KonoLive is the instant collaboration software that is defining the future of knowledge sharing.

Telrad Networks, a Lod based veteran developer of carrier-grade telecommunications equipment, has released the Commatch 1000 series of VoIP customer premises equipment (CPE) as part of its offering for Voice over WiMAX. Commatch 1000 is a generic voice and data CPE, with full interoperability with the Commatch 6004 for immediate provision of all voice services through existing TDM infrastructure.

Silentium, a leading Israeli innovator in Spatial Active Noise Control (ANC) technology, recently announced it has received $1.8 million in funding from Naor Group, and certain current investors. This initial funding marks the first step towards a $5 million round, the company plans to complete over the coming months.

Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that its subsidiary, Cyclone Aviation Products Ltd. (Cyclone), was awarded a contract to supply the US Navy 330 gallon Fuel tanks to be installed on its F-18’s.

Robert Wint, Marketing Director of Verint Systems, was recently on hand to receive an award from Frost & Sullivan recognizing his organization success as the 2007 Mass Transit Security Company of the Year for the European Market. Verint was selected as this year’s winner based on the strength of its Nextiva Transit portfolio, its regional market success and its sharp focus on customer needs and requirements.

Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that Skylark® II, was selected by the Korean military as a preferred solution in a tender involving extensive technical tests and including UAV manufacturers from all over the world. The first phase of the contract includes a comprehensive Skylark® II system while additional systems are expected in the future.

The United Nations General Assembly s Second Committee (Economic and Financial) adopted an Israeli-initiated draft resolution dealing with agricultural technology for development. After a lengthy diplomatic process, which lasted more than six months, UN member states supported the resolution in a vote of 118 countries in favor, with 29 abstentions and no objections.

The first community-powered health search engine, launched after a year in development. The Israeli web 2.0 iMedix allows consumers to benefit from the online research conducted by thousands of others with similar health conditions or interests and allows users to enhance that information through real-time patient-to-patient interaction. By combining advanced search with community features, The project empowers people to find and share health information in order to make better health-related decisions.

Babylon.com, which is a leader in online dictionaries software hope to leverage our experience, knowledge and vast content, in order to help our community build the best online dictionary in the world has made an online community dedicated to the building of the world’s largest dictionary, and providing a community resource for language questions.

Deloitte announced the full list of EMEA’s 500 fastest-growing technology companies during the 2007 and there is A Huge achievement to The Israeli Hi-Tech! Israeli firms take first, second and third place! Deloitte also released the 2007 Technology Fast 500 EMEA CEO Survey amp; Ranking—a comprehensive analysis of the business trends and background statistics of the winning companies and a summary of the key concerns and expectations of sector CEOs.