Montreal Tech Watch

IBM Montréal has now a team for the Extreme Blue program this summer. Extreme Blue is IBM’s most advanced internship program, where 3 students software engineers and 1 student MBA team up to work on an emerging business opportunity, usually based on a cutting-edge technology. It started in 1999 in Cambridge, MA but there is [...]

The Montreal e-business group is a meetup.com event, where entrepreneurs of all horizons meet and discuss. From my past experience, I have seen more innovation and more talent at montreal tech entrepreneur breakfast, but this meetup has been going strong for 6 months and they are now holding focused talks for each one. What’s more, [...]

DemoCampMontreal, third edition, is planned tomorrow at SAT, 1195 bvd St-Laurent, from 6.30pm. Planned demos are: Nicolas Ritoux and Evan Prodromou will be presenting a new “secret” project WorkCruncher, Carl Mercier will be presenting defensio, Simon Law will will build a “counter-clock”, Jerôme Paradis and Francois Aubin will be presenting a new project As you [...]

I have read this week Daniel Drouet’s post at montrealstartup, where he says Montréal’s unemployement rate is now below Toronto’s, which is historical, as Montréal has been lagging economically for years. Of course, it might not be permanent, and we should ask ourselves questions on how Montréal can become a permanent place for development, and [...]

SplineTech technologies, has released a “pro” version of its javascript debugger software. It should be ideal for windows and .NET developers. SplineTech is based in Longueil, in the greater Montréal area, and focuses on tools for asp, VBS and .NET developers. As shown in their about section, it has received many “excellency” awards. And I [...]

Watchmojo.com, a Montréal producer of web videos, has struck a deal yesterday with Azureus Vuze to include their library. Vuze is a new peer-to-peer video distribution application, much alike Joost, Veoh or Babelgum, with a focus on HD content, user interaction, and also monetization. Users can create their own channel, rate and comment videos; and [...]

This is a guest post by Scott Lake, who cofounded Jadex Pixel and Shopify. It provides great insight about Ottawa’s tech entrepreneurs and startups and should inspire Montreal Tech Watch readers Devshop | Craig Fitzpatrick Devshop.com produces a web-based software project management tool. As Craig says, it doesn’t do weddings, it doesn’t do family reunions, [...]

There is now a cell phone version of cyberpresse, La Presse Affaire and Technaute. It’s not compatible with Internet Explorer or Safari for desktop computers, but you can click on each link if you have Firefox. This is nice, although I have long abandoned the idea of accessing the web via a mobile phone in [...]

The arrival of iPhone has spurred many reactions in the press and in canadian blogs about the possible opportunities in Canada. Netchick has made a list of bloggers who wrote about it. The CWTA, which represents telecommunications companies, published a press release a few days after the iPhone’s launch. The Vancouver sun had an interesting [...]

Daniel Haran, a Ruby on Rails developer who worked previously for a web agency in Québec City, is now standoutjobs’s 2nd ruby guru. This was a key position for the startup and for the product’s development. Congrats to Daniel Haran and to the team, who should be going full steam from now. Standoutjobs is a [...]