In lieu of news and articles, I thought it would be interesting to know what were your computing environment. The following poll accepts multiple answers <a href=”http://www.polldaddy.com” >surveys</a> – <a href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/433151/” >Take Our Poll</a> This one is for *developers* <a href=”http://www.polldaddy.com” >surveys</a> – <a href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/433122/” >Take Our Poll</a> Feel free to comment below about your [...]
Coder’s Camp this saturday at Station C
In addition to the Mobile Developer Meetup, Station C is hosting “Coder’s Camp” on Saturday, focusing on javascript, AJAX and usage of APIs. As Patrick Tanguay explains, the folks at Station C took advantage of Christian Heilmann coming in Montréal to organize a mini-barcamp: Christian Heilmann, a well known web developer (Yahoo! UK) who’s written [...]
Mobile Developer Meetup, 21st March, Station-C
The proposal for a Montréal Mobile developer meetup received an unexpected interest, and I have now nearly 20+ people interested in showing up. I am excited to announce that we have now a venue, which is Station c, 5369 bvd St-Laurent, and a date, which is Friday 21st of March, at 5.30pm Station C is [...]
Government agency sued for its migration to Windows Vista
Savoir Faire Linux, a company dedicated to Linux and Free Software solutions, has sued the Régie des Rentes du Québec this week, for choosing Windows Vista for its computers, without call for bids. The Régie des Rentes du Québec is using currently Windows 2000 for its systems, but as support for the OS is phased [...]
A peek at startups in Montreal — ft. Praized, Mobivox, Watchmojo, Librivox & Earideas
A while ago, I was pitched by Ali Karbassi from Idée Inc. who wanted to introduce the idea of lunch2.0 in Montréal. They were organizing it in Toronto and were looking into starting some kind of nation-wide movement. We were shaping up Blitzweekend though, and also I didn’t see the need of this kind of [...]
[upcoming] GameCamp
IGDA-Montreal is now making a call for mini-presentations to be given at the upcoming GameCamp on March 26th at the SAT. The “GameCamp” night is a format inspired by events like BarCamp, 20:20, PechaKucha, FooCamp, etc. GameCamp will feature up to 15 mini 6-minute presentations on a multitude of topics/formats, like: rant or rave game/tech [...]
Here’s a sign that blogging is mainstream in Québec
You can see it as a sign that blogging is now very popular. Or just a niche movement by a few creative writers. Nevertheless, the idea is creative. What: Café-Blog, read your favourite blog post. When: Sunday 16th March, 3h30pm Where: 2025, rue Parthenais. From Ze Canada
New fiscal measures to boost local high-tech companies
The new provincial budget proposed by Quebec’s finance minister Ms Monique Jerome-Forget is very good news for any startup or high-tech companies in Québec. One of its main highlight is the new tax credit for the development of e-business (or “Crédit d’Impôt pour le développement des Affaires Électroniques”), which is much more interesting than was [...]
VC-TV at MSU’s announcement
In case you haven’t noticed, the VC TV team is back, I stumbled into theam at MontrealStartup’s press conference. Kristina said they are planning to expand and produce much more video content than what they have done last year. Here a video of John Stokes explaning MSU’s raison d’être.
Capital Innovation 2008 connects angel investors and tech entrepreneurs
The InterLogiq Network is holding a conference and networking event entitled Capital Innovation 2008 this afternoon and evening at the St-James Club, a “prestigious” club for “business leaders”. The event starts at 2pm with 3 keynotes, by Dan Mothershill, president of the National Angel Organization, Austin Hill, Mario Limoges, who will talk about investment opportunities [...]
