Gossip

The ExScite Yoav Lorch has been putting together a new universal icon language, primarily for SMS communication. Zlango, his new startup, is devoted to developing this new ?picture speak?, and making it available on every handset on the globe.
See examples of Zlango messages here
Yoav (personal page)  was a consultant and later a member of the Scitex human interface group. After leaving Scitex he founded PressPoint.

See here an article (in Hebrew only, sorry) about Yoav, titled: “This language will make you smile”.

The Israeli start-up Zlango has developed a graphic based language that replaces text in SMS with a new icon-based system. A practical, expressive, juicy and fun language that?s simple and intuitive, addictive and viral.
Zlango is a language designed specifically for the SMS society; It is tailored for the mobile handsets and is sent over existing SMS infrastructure.
An international language Zlango bridges cultures with a language that transcends borders.
Simple user experience with unique display capabilities enables people with disabilities to express themselves using mass market handsets.

     <= Zlango language icons

Peter Juxon is Director Sales and Marketing of the Israeli company AVT in Europe.
Peter was sales executive at Scitex and at Iris in Europe.

In 2004 Peter received an award on behalf of AVT- the FlexoTech Prize for Innovation for the AVT’s SpectraLink system, a unique solution that verifies in-line color measurement for packaging and converting applications.

Advanced Vision Technology (AVT) is a provider of machine vision-based automatic optical inspection systems for the printing industry. The company develops and manufactures automatic web inspection systems for the printing industry. AVT is dedicated to providing the gravure, flexo and offset printing industry with superior products and services while bringing the industry to a level of automation that other sectors have been enjoying for years. The company, which has more than 1200 systems installed worldwide, employs 109 people.
AVT is a $25M/year public company listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The company is based in Israel, with marketing, sales and support offices in the United States, Europe and China. AVT CEO is the ExScite Sholmo Amir.

On November 22, 2005 the OnDemand Journal published the article: “Talking with Jacob”, an interesting interview with the ExScite Jacob Aizikowitz.

“…I recently had the chance to pick the brain of one of the best brains in digital publishing technology,
Jacob Aizikowitz , Ph.D., CTO, Chairman, and founder of XMPie Software for variable data publishing. Aizikowitz is an expert in digital printing, personalization and computing for graphic arts. Besides having a Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell, he’s held some pretty heavyweight jobs with the likes of Scitex, IBM and EFI. Here he shares views and insights on today’s digital publishing marketplace.
XMPie of Netanya, Israel is the leading solutions provider for cross-media dynamic publishing – an essential and growing segment of the CRM and Marketing Automation market. XMPie?s software enables enterprises and their marketing service providers to efficiently develop and execute highly customized, information driven, cross-media campaigns…”
Read the complete interview here: http://www.ondemandjournal.com/specialfeatures/ford30.cfm

All ExScite members around the world are invited to listen to this-

For the first time in the history of printing and publishing there will be a weekly one-hour broadcast that will provide in-depth discussion and analysis on topics that have significant impact and interest within the worldwide print community.
Our ExScite Rick Littrell and his partner are just about to launch Inside Print Radio Show broadcast on the Internet. it will include:

‣ Sample of show format can be heard now at: http://www.osxfaq.com/radio/print/index.ws
‣ Planned market introduction at Adobe Momentum in Print Conference is scheduled for – Jan 22-24, 2006 San Francisco, CA – www.momentuminprint.com
‣ 3 days of one hour LIVE show coverage from the trade show, with interviews and announcements
‣ First Inside Print Radio Show broadcast is scheduled for – January 28th, 2006
‣ The weekly one hour show is available for a FREE subscription download from the Apple iTunes website or via links on international content partner and sponsor websites the week of January 30th!
‣ Current Inside Mac Radio and TV shows can be reviewed at: http://www.osxfaq.com/radio/print/index.ws
Rick is the CMO MagiComm, and also the founder and President of Littrell & Associates (http://www.littrell.biz ) in Groveland, MA. He was one of the first application people at Scitex America in the roaring 80?s (and certainly one of the tallest?). After 3 years with STA, Rick held several application and marketing management positions at Agfa in Wilmington MA.

Since March 1998, Michaelhas been CEO of SPO. Prior to March 1998, he was at Scitex Corporation Ltd. During his 12-year tenure at Scitex, he held various positions within the worldwide organization, including a period in the United States he was in charge of the Scitex Medical group, specializing in medical imaging applications of Iris printers. Michael served as director of Amedia Networks, Inc. (formerly TTR Technologies, Inc.) from February 2000 through August 2002.
SPO Medical is an Israeli technology-based company established in 1997 whose stock become tradable in the United States in 2005 under the symbol SPOM.PK.
The company is a developer of non-invasive pulse oximetry technologies to monitor blood oxygen saturation and heart rate for a variety of markets, including medical, homecare, sports and homeland defense. The company sells into the market applications such as emergency care, neonatal resuscitation, home monitoring, sleep apnea, cardiovascular performance, cardiac rehabilitation and the physiological monitoring of military personnel and safety care workers.

David Saar is the CEO and co-founder of GED-i Ltd.
Most recently David was the CEO of Vsecure Technologies (US) Inc, a Network Security company. He previously was the founder and the General Manager of TSK Israel Ltd. – a subsidiary of TSK Inc. of Japan – a manufacturer of semiconductor manufacturing inspection systems.  Previously he was the worldwide Marketing Director of the SDH Division of ECI Telecom.
For about 10 years David has held several product development positions at Scitex Israel, including R&D Manager of EIT, a Scitex spin-off.
GED-i Ltd of Netanya Israel offers protection to Storage Data, originally designed and implemented for the storage world, incorporating 3 layers of standard and proprietary. GED?s Solution is available as S/W, Board or Appliance version, complies to the customer needs and policy.

After 13 years at STE in various senior marketing and application positions (including VP Marketing) Chris Van Assche left Scitex in 1996 to join Barco in Belgium.
A couple of years later, leaving the graphic-arts market, Chris redirected his interest towards the banking world, in the field of strategic IT consulting. With a technology partner and venture capital, he created a company that developed concepts and provided support to banking software applications. Two years later, they sold the consulting business to an
Amsterdam based consulting company.
Chris Van Assche has recently created his own management company (Creative & Valuable Advantages) in Meise, Belgium, providing services to several international banks in the Benelux. 

The ExScite Rami Gilboa has combined his two areas of great interest- food/cooking with open-terrain/Jeeps and published a great book.

“THE SALT OF THE EARTH- cooking outside with the best Israeli chefs” is a great looking book, with fantastic photography and mouth-watering recipes. The book (for now- published only in Hebrew) can be found at book stores but unfortunately can not be purchased online yet.
Rami has told us that making the book provided him with a lot of fun and personal satisfaction. Rami has been the photographer, the writer as well as the Jeep driver. For several months he took leading Israeli chefs and drove with them to the hills and deserts in Israel. He had arranged the location with wood fire for them and they cooked their masterpieces on the open fire.
Rami says: “it was great experience and fun (including my almost becoming “Journaliste Flambee”, when the oil caught fire, big time…)”
For our Hebrew readers:
Click here  to see the books table of content.
Click here to see the recipe for Foyka.

You can see additional stories about Rami’s other crazy hobby by scrolling back the ExScite/Gossip to the 2001 postings of March 10 and Nov 25.

The ExScite Alon Avnon  founded a business consulting in London UK.
Park Road Associates  tag line is: “Management buy-in of printing & imaging businesses”. It was created to: Acquire a promising imaging business; Restructure the business to achieve its full potential; Manage it; and Exit when ready.
From 1997 to January 2001, he served as Managing Director of NUR Europe S.A and later as Nur’s corporate VP, business development. Before joining NUR, Alon served as VP Marketing at Scidel Ltd., where he established that company’s European office. Prior to that, he was Director of Marketing at Scitex Europe S.A., where he was responsible for developing the company’s presence in the photographic (Leaf and Iris) and offset printing industries.

Hanan Drory one of the longest surviving ExScite at the ever-changing  Scitex (Israel/ Australia/ Japan)/ Creo/ HP has been recently interviewed on the Israeli radio service.
We have picked the broadcast over the Internet .

To hear click here. (the audio will take a a few seconds to start- so stay tuned).