Montreal Tech Watch

Standoutjobs has won the SEOmoz web2.0 award in the employement and jobs category. Nominees in the category were judged on usability, usefulness, social aspects, user interface & design, and content quality. In all of these criterias, Standoutjobs was ranked ahead of careerbuilder.com and monster, which is a feat, since these last two are 2 heavyweights [...]

I am the Canadian Venture Capitalists and Private Equity Association 2008 conference, held here in Montreal at the Fairmount Queen Elizabeth. The conference started yesterday with a golf event and a welcoming cocktail. As in most conferences, it’s easy to see that networking and discussions in hotel lobbies are a big part of the conference, [...]

Picture taken by Alistair Croll A Net Neutrality Rally was organized yesterday midday in Ottawa, where customers of Internet provider Bell Canada and sympathizers gathered to protest traffic throttling by large ISPs. The rally is a consequence of Bell Canada admitting that they were throttling P2P traffic, even if the traffic was in fact managed [...]

We’re all happy to see that Poly9, RollAName, immeria, Eureka Science News, RateMyGroup all moved from Montreal and Quebec city to somewhere up north, near Labrador City… or is this Fermont? On a more serious note, the map displayed above comes from startupindex, which is a database of Canadian startups, and displays those companies in [...]

I am reading a post on Techcrunch about Mediascrape, a local media startup, that made news recently. Michael Arrington reveals that Tyler Cavell, founder of the company, is threatning him of a lawsuit, since the latter found the post and comments about his company incorrect. I am not really sure what to think about the [...]

Last week, two contenders dropped out of the Canadian wireless spectrum auction. MTS Allstream, a Manitoba-based telecom company, announced that its partnership with private equity firms Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Blackstone Capital Partners was dissolved, making its chances to win the wanted spectrum unlikely. Just a few days ago, a joint venture which [...]

Company: Ubisoft Entertainment Position: 3D programmer Responsibilites and Tasks: Prototyping Produce clean, well-documented code that pushes the machine to its limit and rivals reality Assume technical direction of 3D rendering on next-gen consoles. Research cutting-edge rendering techniques. Required Knoweledge: Motivated, with a passion for video games. Strong problem solving and communication skills Ability to work [...]

Company: Espace Canoe Position: Product Manager / Directeur de Produit Under the supervision of the product line director, in collaboration with the functional analyst, the PMO and the marketing team, the incumbent must use a consumer-focused, product-market approach. The incumbent is responsible for the development, growth and performance of the product-market. He/she must work in [...]

This is not exactly news, but I thought I might share a new study published by TechnoCompétences, an organization tracking the IT workforce in Québec. TechnoCompétences said IT was hit very hard in the beginning of the decade, with companies laying off personel by thousands, while the rest of companies just went busted. However, TechnoCompétences’s [...]

Company: TribalNova Position: Multiplayer Game Programmer Responsibilites and Tasks: Reporting to the technical vice president, you will participate in an innovative development project aimed at adapting a game platform for a new market, as well as integrating new developed games on a regular basis. You will share the responsibility for developing and maintaining a distribution [...]