Montreal Tech Watch

Benjamin Yoskovitz, one of Montreal’s most famous blogger, has started last week the ultimate productivity project. He reports that 28 bloggers have already partipated into the guide. I liked reading the 14 tips to get things done in less time for instance. Kudos then to Benjamin Yoskovitz for: launching a project that will be actually [...]

Edward Ocampo-Gooding, a Computer Science student graduate from Bishop’s, was at Concordia University yesterday to distribute the books he received from O’Reilly. The books ranged from Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Interface Design, Graphic design etc… I want to thank him officially for this kind contribution to the community. Now, I want to do something too, [...]

Note: Another post will follow this soon Yesterday was a rainy day, one of those saturdays you would rather be home, reading a book in a comfy sofa. Or you could also attend BarcampMontreal, whose second edition was planned april 28th. I missed its first edition, and thought of it as an extended DemoCamp. I [...]

BarcampMontreal is scheduled tomorrow, at Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT), 1195 bvd. St-Laurent, at 9.30am. Barcamps are “unconferences” where everyone participates. You can either present, discuss, interact or help organize the event. The aim is to learn and also to share you current projects and your knowledge. There is already a great list of participants. [...]

Jerome Plantevin, tech blogger from lesaffaires.com, writes (in french) about the upcoming law in France that would require website publishers to save visitors data for 1 year. He says that bloggers, ISPs, webmasters will now want to transfer their businesses to Quebec, because the law would demand heavy technology investments, far too cumbersome for many [...]

Énergie has just relaunched its website, radioenergie.com. They wanted “web2.0″ features, so they added blogs, user profiles, conversations between radio DJs and the audience. They are obviously inspired by myspace and skyblog, Radio Skyrock’s blogging platform that dominates the social networking landscape in France. But it seems they were just too ambitious. The only thing [...]

Montreal.TV has quietly relaunched, and the result is quite impressive. Montreal.TV covers nightclubs, bars and Montreal restaurants, and wants to show Montreal as a wordlwide hub of fashion, entertainment and fun. It looks like a video equivalent of Montreal Tech Watch, the difference being that they have a production team covering events out there – [...]

LightSpeed is a Point-Of-Sale system from XSilva that allows shops, consultants and small offices to manage their sales, from products management, quoting, invoicing, purchasing to reports. Version 2 introduces an iTunes-like product browser, an improved user interface and new management and inventory tool. If you look at the screenshot, you know now that LightSpeed is [...]

OZ, a Montréal mobile solution company, has just acquired Thumbspeed, another leading mobile solution provider who have customers within the Cingular, Rogers Wireless and TeliaSonera networks. OZ makes IM, email and social networking software and gateways for mobile phones. Their clients have been installed to 85 millions handsets in North America and Europe. They allow [...]

Neks Technologies is a biotech company that makes detection tools for dentists. They have just received FDA’s approval for a new innovative product, D-Carie. I wouldn’t report about what’s happenning in the biotech industry usually, but this is an innovative product that uses LED and fiber optics technology. With the traditional tools like X-Rays and [...]