{"id":13243,"date":"2010-04-20T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T21:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13243"},"modified":"2010-04-20T15:28:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T21:28:32","slug":"techie-mystery-why-did-israel-ban-the-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13243","title":{"rendered":"Techie Mystery: Why Did Israel Ban the iPad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Matthew Kalman \/ Jerusalem<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The ministry says the iPad&#8217;s Wi-Fi system is configured for the United States and does not conform to the European standards used in Israel [&#8230;] Aviv Eilon, a Tel Aviv attorney specializing in technology law&#8230;says the iPad conforms to the European standards approved in Israel and uses the same Wi-Fi devices as other Apple computers already in use in the country. [&#8230;] One commentator, Aharon Etengoff, has openly speculated on his blog that the Ministry of Communications is acting to protect the monopoly of iDigital, Apple&#8217;s sole official Israeli importer, which is owned by Chemi Peres, son of the Israeli president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1983236,00.html#ixzz0lg0Uskf9\">Read the article<\/a>]<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong>Aharon Etengoff: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgdaily.com\/mobility-features\/49387-why-israel-banned-the-ipad\">Why Israel banned the iPad<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matthew Kalman \/ Jerusalem The ministry says the iPad&#8217;s Wi-Fi system is configured for the United States and does not conform to the European standards used in Israel [&#8230;] Aviv Eilon, a Tel Aviv attorney specializing in technology law&#8230;says &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13243\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3rB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13243"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13253,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions\/13253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}