Montreal Tech Watch

I didn’t know about Technologies Miranda. They manufacture a complete offer of HD TV products and equipment, from image treatment, production, post-production, distribution, to monitoring. The offer is very strong and they also market IP TV equipment. They are also investing 14.9% of their revenus in R&D. Overall, Technologies Miranda is one the most innovative [...]

CEFRIO, a Québec research center, announced the results of a poll (en francais), made with Léger Marketing. Key facts: 72% of adults use Internet regularly 86% are subscribed to High Speed Internet service 16% of families use IP telephony 38% use online banking services 47% use Internet at their office for work and 31% of [...]

Here is a recap of the moves from the YellowPages Group this week: 20th Feb 2007: the group wants to buy Aliant Services, which manages phone directories in 4 Canadian provinces, mostly eastern provinces. It will cost Yellow Pages 30 M$ and if the deal is a success, they will control the canadian phone directory [...]

X2O Media‘s flagship product is XPresenter, a software add-on that transforms Microsoft PowerPoint into broadcast-quality video. The idea is that the PowerPoint user drag and drop pictures, videos, and text into the presentation and this will be updated in real-time to screens and projectors that are connected to the PowerPoint software. It may seem eye-candy, [...]

CAE Inc, a world leader in simulation, manufacture of simulation equipement, and training, is taking over Engenuity Technologies, a software developer that provides the military, automative, civial aviation and video games industry. The 2 companies have complimentary profiles and Engenuity Technologies’ products fit very well into CAE’s offering. Both parties have qualified the deal as [...]

EspaceCanoe, a social networking website, has opened a new section for the 2007 provincial elections. See for example the profile of Jean Lapierre. The website is very web2.0ish, with tagging, videos, blogs and bright pastel colors. They didn’t even forget the ‘beta’ near the logo. You have to go with the times, I guess. The [...]

Emergis, based in Longueil, has announced an increase of +37% in 2006 benefits, thanks to their very good services and products offer. Emergis is an IT company which provides key services for the health and financial industry, such as secure transactions or ecommerce solutions. Furthermore, they are buying buying back their actions, willl be investing [...]

Marie-Chantal Surgeon, a proeminent Montreal blogger, founder of Meïdia, published her notes from the Infopresse web2.0 conference. She tells how companies should embrace the internet, adapt their communication strategy and how they should be open to the new media. I think this is better to understand what web2.0 is and how it can change communication

Today, from 8h30am to 4h30pm, TechoCompétences and the Information and Communications Technology Council are inviting human ressources professionals to a meeting about a Wireless Technology RoadMap. It might be late to register and go to the event, but I believe wireless networks, especially with the WiMax Technology is the future of telecommunications. After 3G and [...]

TechnoMontreal is a new web portal, launched by Montréal International, which provides tech news, tools for networking and lists IT events in Montréal. It concerns: the aerospatial industry video games industry IT consulting services telecommunications and related services software developers multimedia and advertising industry TechnoMontreal is in french and is sponsored by many IT companies [...]