Montreal Tech Watch

The book Pourquoi Bloguer dans un contexte d’affaires – or “Why blog in a business context”, has been launched today. It’s the first of its kind and is written by an “A-list” of Québec-based bloggers, namely Claude Malaison, Martin Lessard, Michel Leblanc, Tristan Peloquin, Marie-Chantale Turgeon, Mario Asselin, Sylvain Carle, Philippe Martin, Marc Snyder and [...]

ICP Solar, a Montreal-based company which produces a whole range of innovative solar panels and chargers, has bought this week WES Power Technology Inc, a small newfoundland company. WES Power Technology started as a small DIY project, where the original team asked themselves how to manage a combination of hybrid energy, i.e. solar panels and [...]

JF Couture, Fred Brunel, Chris Lamothe, Mehdi Monday 27th August was the 3rd Edition of Montreal Web Dev Book Club, a monthly gathering where web designers, entrepreneurs and web developers talk about recent books they have read and also current issues of the web. Here’s is my report: The first book was Building Scalable Web [...]

NetWorldMedia and Gorilla Nation has agreed earlier this week to combine forces. Their customers, both french and english-speaking, can now advertise into their respective web networks. Gorilla Nation is the biggest online ad sales rep in the world. Based in Los Angeles, it manages ad sales for 500 “high-quality” websites, and can both offer their [...]

La Presse Affaires has a story about a Montréaler, “Marc-André”, who had an iPhone working with Rogers’ mobile network. He had everything working, from the EDGE internet access, SMS, to the google maps. Visual Voice Mail, a proprietary feature by AT&T, is not avalaible. “Marc-André”, whose job is in real estate, used a special SIM [...]

Chezola Systems, an IT company based in Laval, has announced that it has developed a mobile payment system called Chezola Pay for GSM phones. They plan to make it avalaible in Nigeria later this year. Users load an account with a prepaid card, and can then pay small amounts directly to merchants with a SMS [...]

With the upcoming conference next week in Montreal, Red Herring has a special edition on Canada for its 27th issue. On a first article, Mira Schwirtz has 6 pages on the venture capitals and investors in Canada, and goes on current deals and opportunities in each province. She outlines Vancouver’s strength in cleantech, Toronto’s advance [...]

MTW’s relaunch is stopped today — other developments will follow next week. As you can see, Montreal Tech Watch’s design is centered upon the content — ie text and posts and nothing else. Some new features: There is a forum section, open to everybody Montreal Tech Events are shown directly in the right side. “Featured [...]

I am currently preparing a relaunch of Montreal Tech Watch, so there will be no posts for a couple of days. Meanwhile, you can watch this short video.

Bureau en gros, aka Staples shops will accept from 12th of September used eletronics, ie old laptops, desktops, printers computer accessories, digital cameras and cell phones as well. They will then send them to recycling. La vie en vert, a Télé-Québec show, is at the core of the initiative, and will promote the recycling program [...]