Montreal Tech Watch

Tungle has released yesterday a new BlackBerry interface for its calendar group scheduling service. The interface allows users to get updates from Tungle, and then interact with the service without their laptop and Microsoft Outlook, which was up to this day the only avalaible interface to Tungle. The new feature means that Tungle is 100% [...]

Wavesat has now a brand-new chip named Odissey that is compatible with Wimax, wifi, and also future 4G networks. It’s the first chip of its kind, and is targeted for future small electronic devices such as USB dongles or cellphone handsets. The chip has embedded DRAM memory and uses very low power. The promise is [...]

Codefest, a weekend hackfest for developers supported by phpquebec, was this weekend, and it begun Friday at ETS’s Pub sans génie. There is something hardcore about spending a whole weekend with other developers with the objective to code on projects. The majority of Montréalers would want to go outdoors, and do something at the opposite [...]

Company: iWeb Position: Director of Customer Service Experience Responsibilites and Tasks: Analysis and focus on automation. Overseeing the whole customer experience. Customer documentation (FAQs) Measure and manage to key performance indicators. Undertake issue management and act as final escalation point. Drive continuous improvements to departmental processes Establish the training programs with the Customer Care Managers [...]

I went to StartupCampMontreal2 last week. Like the first startupcamp, it’s an initiative from business consulting company embrase. The event gathers entrepreneurs, investors and pretty much everyone in the technology entrepreneurship community in one night of presentations. This time, 5 startups were voted by “startup gurus”; other entrepreneurs who registered in the wiki could also [...]

The 2nd Founders & Funders dinner was hosted this wednesday by Austin Hill (akoha standoutjobs) and Patrick Lauzon (VP, canoe) Kristina Tomaz Young from VC TV has published a great video about the event: VC-TV features Montreal’s Second Founders and Funders Eve!par SIwithKTY Featured in the video are: – Austin Hill – George Favvas, entrepreneur, [...]

Tourisme Montréal unveiled today a new version of their website, with a focus on slick videos and an innovative user interface. I see the logic on producing videos, the featured video here certainly gives Montréal a modern/european/vibrant look. But I find the whole idea wrong on many levels. There are lots to be said about [...]

Alongside the main dinner, Austin Hill says that there is also a new feature tonight at Founders & Funders, with a cocktail open to everybody, no invitation required. This is a great way to meet investors (and also other fellow entrepreneurs) if you couldn’t make it to the dinner but still wanting to get attention [...]

Laurent Maisonnave and Christian Aubry from Videopresse are doing a great job live streaming from Webcom. I’ve just watched it for 5 min, but so far, it’s a compelling use of video. This is very innovative, with live interviews, and a great host (Christian)

The team at inpowr have published an “interview” of their Web2.0 expo experience, with plans to make the platform accessible to various portals and websites who already have a big audience. This will get more users but it’s also a direct revenue stream for them. Michel Chioini also announced they would need $5 US (surely [...]