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The article focuses on events and happenings related to computing machinery. A U.S. government panel has been formed to check foreign student visa applications for possible terrorist risks. The Interagency Panel on Advanced Science Security, expects to evaluate 2,000 applications a year submitted by researchers and students seeking to enroll in science and technology programs it deems sensitive. The U.S. government is using the Internet to find qualified candidates for IT positions by retooling portals and hosting virtual job fairs to better compete with the private sector. The overall e-government effort, called Recruitment One-Stop, focuses on upgrading the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's USAjobs portal. Recruitment One-Stop makes it possible for job searchers to apply to multiple agencies online while federal human resources personnel can track applicants' progress. The Israeli domain .il has been the number-one target of Web defacements over the past three years, suffering 548 of the 1,295 hack attacks in the Middle East, according to the security firm mi2g Ltd.

The article offers information on the announcement by Israel-based Yoggie Security Systems, that miniature hardware Internet security devices for MacBooks and Mac desktop computers, are available for purchase from its' web site http://www.yoggie.com/e-store and at online retailers worldwide. It is noted that Gatekeeper Pico for Mac and Gatekeeper Card Pro for Mac, provide security for Mac operating system (OS) users through giving Internet security applications on hardware that offloads security. Shlomo Touboul, founder and chief executive officer of the firm, said they are very pleased and excited to make the Gatekeeper available to the Mac OS user community at the same price as the Windows OS version.

Looks at the state of computing in Israel, which can now sell its high-tech wares to its next-door neighbors and enemies, the Arabs. How the religion and politics of the region permeate the computer industry in Israel; How Israelis have become sensitized to the concerns around them; How one Israeli company sells its computer software to Arab customers; Why many overseas companies are eager to invest in Israeli computer technology; More.

Explores the state of computing in Israel through a series of lecture given by `Datamation' columnist David E.Y. Sarna in conjunction with INFOTech, Israel's national computer trade show. Seminar on migration from mainframes to Windows and client/server; GUI design course; Windows 95 installation, administration and tips; Visual Basic 4.0; Philosophy of component development; Software technology.

The article focuses on the acquisition by IBM of the XIV, Tel Aviv-based maker of storage-area network equipment in Israel. The International Business Machine Corporation's (IBM) spokesperson says, it expects to use XIV's flagship product, Nextra architecture that can scale dynamically and heal itself in the event of failure and self-tune performance. The move will also address the growing needs of the company which includes high-performance storage for digital archives, digital media and Web 2.0 applications.

The article features Nextra, a grid storage system developed by XIV company in Israel. It also compares Nextra with EMC Corp.'s DMX3, which runs $250,000 for up to 28.8 terabyte or about $8,700 per terabyte, not including snapshots and other storage software. XIV intends to become the next EMC and hopes to venture in high-end storage products. The features of Nextra include replication, availability and hot swapability, for only $5,000 per terabyte. According to an MIT graduate, Ofir Zohar, Nextra's performance was phenomenal and beyond expectations. The technology was the combination of fine-rained data chunking, mass parallelism, grid architecture and advanced caching subsystem.

The article presents news briefs relevant to the computer industry compiled as of December 2005. Microsoft Corp. has issued a warning that hackers may target a critical unpatched bug in Internet Explorer which they could use to seize control of a user's system. Cognos Inc. warned of negative financial results for the third quarter. Intel has announced plans to begin construction of an advanced semiconductor manufacturing facility in Israel. The Great Britain National Health Services Agency awarded a supply security contract to Novell Inc.

Deals with the plan of Intel to conduct a facility upgrade for the 90 nanometer flash memory application in 2004. Confirmation that it has filed an application with the Israeli government for tax incentives; Initial investment for the upgrade; Number of employees of fabs and several research and development facilities of Intel.

Reports on Israel's plans to capture a share in the American computer market. Disadvantage of the size of the Israeli market; Israeli companies involved with information systems (IS); Support from government; Joint American/Israeli research and development projects.