Montreal Tech Watch

DemocampMontreal2 was planned thursday evening. I’ll cut directly to the presentations: first Alec Saunders presented Iotum, a Blackberry notification service. A small app will alert you when your contacts are avalaible. Users get an invitation by email from their friends, setup rules with each connection, sync it with their calendar, and voilà, your symbiotic relationship [...]

Inukshuk has extented its wireless coverage in Canada; this is immediately avalaible to Rogers Portable Internet and Sympatico Unplugged subscribers. For those late in the party, Inukshuk is a joint venture between Rogers and Bell. The inukshuk wireless network is one the largest of its kind in the world, covering 40% of Canada’s population, mostly [...]

Dailywom is a new Montreal audio and video podcast about world of mouth marketing. It was initiated by Pascal Beauchenes, a Montreal marketing specialist. World of Mouth marketing (WOM) or viral marketing has become the favorite and cliché marketing tool for bootstrapping entrepreneurs, and big companies alike. The prospect of having everyone talking about your [...]

Radio IP Software is a Montreal company specializing in wireless. They have developed new protocols and technologies that provide connection anywhere, any time, which can switch seamlessly between different networks, be it private RF networks, cellular networks or wireless hotspots. Their products and services are targeted at public service organizations, like firefighters, police corps, governmental [...]

The Montreal media company Consultations Amabilis has just launched Kakinews, a french news aggregator website aimed at women. You can also call it a digg clone, with a different template and a different audience. For those not acquainted with digg, users can register and submit a webpage. Highly voted news land on the homepage. The [...]

DemoCampMontreal2 is coming tomorrow thursday, at Société des Arts Technologiques, 1195 bvd St-Laurent, at 6pm. The demo schedule is as follows: HughMcGuire will be presenting Collectik Martin Dufort – Kakiloc iotum will demo Talk Now on a BlackBerry Brett Gaylor – Open Source Cinema BumpTop I hope #3 is more than a sales pitch. Apart [...]

Note 1: I wrote this last week, but instead of hitting the ‘Save as Draft’ Button, I clicked on ‘Publish’. The event is planned tomorrow night. Note 2: Stirling said it is hard to plan in advance about upcoming tech events. Thanks Stirling for the comment. So, from now on, I will publish every sunday/saturday [...]

Bluestreak has been flooding the Internet since last month with their “press releases”. I discarded those as quickly as they came; but I made a recap today and I just strikes me that they have nearly won the game. Bluestreak, a company located in old Montreal, has a new partenrship since yesterday with ACCESS. To [...]

RDS.ca has launched yesterday Zone Video, a video section with lots of content. Hockey is the super star sport of course here, but there are also some baseball, football, ski and tennis videos. The interface is flash-only, with a TV-like experience. RDS is obviously trying to prevent viewers to go to youtubeLand and stick to [...]

Quick reminder: IPv4 is the current network layer protocol currently used for the Internet. IP adresses are stored on a 32 bits packet, with an adress like 127.0.01, and are used to transport traffic back and forth on the Internet. Now, the industry was alarmed regularly that the Internet was running out of avalaible IP [...]