Montreal Tech Watch

For an additional 10$ per month, Bell Mobility customers can now get unlimited calls to AND from Bell mobility cell phones, residential and business phones. Of course, we are talking about local calls here. We will have to watch what Rogers Wireless (and Fido), Telus, and even Videotron will have to offer. The offer is [...]

Hightlights from DemoCampMontreal1: Evan Prodromou, the founder of wiki travel, demonstrated how to use Open ID. He had some DNS problems. I have yet to see a convincing presentation of OpenID. I understand its benefits, but I think someones needs to find a better pitch growwwing is an upcoming web service for freelancers and small [...]

Montreal Gazette has a new blog called Montreal Tech Scene, written by technology news reporter Roberto Rocha. The initiative is great, and you should definetely bookmark the blog.

iWeb Technologies, a Montreal web hosting provider, has received a 4.5M$ funding from BDC (Business Development Bank of Canada) to build a second data center in St-Léonard, with additional power supply and a total of 4000 servers. Marin Leclair, co-founder and CO of iWeb said he hoped to raise up to 12.000 servers their capacity. [...]

Groupe CIS offers sales, transport planning, and distribution software. Companies such as Coca-Cola, Saputo Group, Parmalat, Nestlé, AgroPur use for example their products to track trucks and their delivery systems. Omniciel was a direct competitor of Group CIS, and also offered management software and general computer services. The two companies are merging today into Groupe [...]

Radio-Canada has setup an online website for the TV series Rumeurs They must have discovered and subscribed to the Internets last week. I am not qualified to talk about the content, but what I have to say is that the website is: a e-magazine, which means it is not updated regularly but published monthly in [...]

DemoCampMontreal1 is tomorrow’s meetup where a handful of Montreal tech guys and girls will get to demo a new technology or application. The first DemoCamp was started in Toronto, as an alternative to FooCamp, the O’Reilly event where entrepreneurs and key Silicon Valley innovators get to hang out together and talk about their technologies. And [...]

Tomorrow, from 5.30pm, a YULBiz meetup is planned for professional bloggers, i.e. people who blog for business. Expect many consultants and freelancers to be there but also marketers, public relations specialists, journalists, entrepreneurs, and also some biz types who want to see what is all this about. Michelle Leblanc has written a report of January’s [...]

Loren Segal has released an alpha version of YARD, a ruby documentation tool. YARD’s goal is to be simpler, more convenient and more consistent than RDoc YARD enables the user to generate consistent, usable documentation that can be exported to a number of formats very easily, and also supports extending for custom Ruby constructs such [...]

Alain Bealieu, from DirectionInformatique, writes a very interesting report – in french – about the Canadian and Quebec IT industry. The key figure is that Canada ranks now in 27th place for innovation. They raised issues like lack of investment, lack of government support and lack of talent. It always surprises me how big monolithic [...]