Montreal Tech Watch

ReadWrite/Web is looking for a part-time contributor to review startups. RW/W is among Technorati’s Top 50 blogs, with reviews and analysis about web technologies, and they have been growing like hell since the past 5 months. They are currently hosting SuperNova with Techcrunch. Of course, this piece of news has nothing to with Montreal. But [...]

DemoCampMontreal, third edition, is planned next month, Thursday 26th of July (date confirmed by Evan Prodromou). As usual, you can read and edit the info at barcamp.org, with the schedule and list of attendees. Nicolas Ritoux, reporter from La Presse, seems to be the only demoer so far, but previous camps showed that the demo [...]

Telus confirmed today that they were indeed in merger talks with Montreal-based BCE, who announced it yesterday. If successful, the two companies would have a combined market cap of more than $53 billion, with more than 20 million customers. This would also mean that Canadians will have to chose between Bell vs. Rogers when purchasing [...]

Flickr is organizing a community event for Flickr users tomorrow at Société des Arts Technologiques, 1195 bvd St-Laurent, from 6.00pm to 9. I am not sure what attendees will be doing, if there is going to be discussions or if this is just a users’ party. In both cases, I am writing about it because [...]

There is a new section in Montreal Tech Watch called OpenSpace, which is a blog editable by everyone … editable as in wiki. You can also see it as a wiki, but with blog features. This means that any user of this website can create a new post/page, and edit other posts. Of course, other [...]

I am gathering currently a list of the top startups and web applications in Canada and I am asking you, the reader, to participate in it. The article would be published on a major tech blog. For me, it’s an opportunity to show that tech entrepreneurs can shine in Montreal, in Quebec — and in [...]

The Globe and Mail has an article about Chris “Zeke” Hand‘s case. I have written previously about the case here, the day after he received the letter from the lawyer. The story can be summed up to: Chris “Zeke” Hand, an art blogger who also has an art gallery, writes about a current crime story [...]

Trellia has raised last week 3.5M$ in series B funding from Fonds de Solidarité FTQ and from Skypoint Capital. Trellia markets solutions that lets users switch seamlessly between cellphone networks, wifi and wimax. They also focus on security, which makes them an ideal solution provider for big organizations like governments or corporations.

INM, or Integration New Media, is a Montreal company known essentially for their Director Xtras. They have just launched this week a new product called Reach, which enables companies to publish high-quality print documents on the web, and let end-users interact with them. They are using Flash to deliver it to visitors. This is easier [...]

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