Montreal Tech Watch

NetCorps / Cyberjeunes is a federal program that sends young canadians in Asia, Africa and Latin America. They promote the use of information technology for economic and international development. In the field, this means internet connection, web site development, software use and field support. Anyway, Kristine Randall is organizing an Open Learning Event tomorrow, March [...]

I heard about Twitter 5 months ago, on boagworld. At that time, the service was hot for web designers. Paul was excited about it, but I just erased it on my mind as another useless web service. I mean, I know how they like futility and novelty. I had a friend, a web designer who [...]

Bilal Abdul Kader has forwarded me a workshop aimed at technology entrepreneurs. “Financing your technology startups” is a free workshop organized by the Entrepreneurship club of Concordia University. It will be held at Concordia Universityl, EV 260, starting from 6pm The guest speaker is M. J.Pelland, Business Advisor from Dobson Center. You can also get [...]

The Intracom conference is opening tomorrow March 26th for 2 days, at Centre Mont-Royal. It is organized by API (Association des Professionnels en Intranet, Internet et Extranet (API). The conferences and workshops are all in french and topics cover: intranets web2.0 blogs accessibility/usability ecommerce mobile web internet marketing and information systems Shel Holtz, a notorious [...]

Montrealers have adopted long ago recycling, with our ritual green basket. But have you thought about your electronic products and gadgets? A standard cell phone chip needs 1.6 kgs of solid fossils, 72 grams of chemical products and 31 liters of water to be produced. Now, a wireless device has on average 50 chips which [...]

This is a screenshot I took this morning: It is forecasted a 12 C. deg cloudy day for tomorrow, a perfect day to (re)discover Montreal and walk around parks. Also, saturday, here are some events and shows in Montreal: Attraction fatale is an exposition about seduction rites at Montreal Biodome Ju Ming have been exposing [...]

I covered earlier celljob, the new service that lets job candidates receives regular updates by SMS. It will start tomorrow, March 23rd, when the Montréal National Career Event fair begins. By the way, if you are looking for a job in technology, now is a good time to subscribe and dust off those CVs. I [...]

I had a quick interview this week with Chris Vinson, a Montreal bassist who became a web entrepreneur. He founded Bandzoogle, a service that lets bands and musicians create their own professional website, with no web design skills needed. The bands can have a blog, an events manager, a mailing list, a forum, and a [...]

Ubisfot Montreal and Québec City Studios has released yesterday TMNT, the video game. I hate and abhorr this so much. It’s so obvious it came from a marketing meeting where a few uninspired said: let’s market a xbox360 adware game for teenagers, with lots of explosions, fancy colors and monsters. We shall throw in a [...]

Philippe K. Chrun is a young technology entrepreneur I met at the latest Montreal Tech entrepreneur breakfast. I found his idea promising and we got to meet today for a lenghty exchange. Phil Chrun was born in Québec but studied at the University of Western Ontario, in London. Like many students, Phil wanted to travel [...]