Roberto Rocha has an article telling Ubisoft’s acquisition of Hybride Technologies, the studio who made the special effects of movie hits 300 or Sin City. The studio’s talent and assets will be used for the production of video games, and also for move tie-ins. The acquisition comes also in a week where Blizzard and Activitision [...]
P2P website ordered to stop operations
QuebecTorrent, a quebec-based torrent tracker, was ordered by the Superior Court of Quebec to close the website late last week. To my knowledge, it’s a first in Canada, where file-sharing is still legal (well, until bill C-61 comes). Here, the legal team from media groups Musicor, Zone 3 Musique, TVA Groupe Inc, succeeded into making [...]
iPhone frenzy in Montreal
So everyone complained about Rogers but Apple (and Rogers) finally won. This morning, Rogers and Fido stores in downtown Montreal had as much as 100 people lined up, and the whole activation system blew up one hour later. Even in late afternoon hours, customers were still coming in, not to protest data plan rates, but [...]
Job Listing: ASP Web Developer / Programmer at Dextel.net
Company: Dextel.net Position: ASP Web Developer / Programmer Responsibilites and Tasks: We are looking for a highly skilled ASP Web Programmer / Developer to join our dynamic web development team. We are a web design and development company dedicated to creating sophisticated and innovative web projects in a wide range of industries with clients across [...]
Job Listing: Web developper at CloudRaker
Company: CloudRaker Position: Web developper Responsibilites and Tasks: Participate in the development & integration of websites, applications & digital initiatives Required Knoweledge: If you… · have worked as a PHP Developer for 3 to 5 years, · Possess excellent comprehension of Web standards, including XHTML/CSS and DOM Scripting, · have extended knowledge of SQL, mySQL, [...]
Identi.ca’s perfect launch
This might be too early to rewrite about identi.ca and give a judgement on the webiste’s success; however, there are already new interesting facts about the new service: most of the bloggers who covered the event started to mention Twitter and its fail whale, which is now legendary. Evan Prodroumou‘s Identi.ca was then seen as [...]
Survey on online advertising
If you are feeling benevolent today or have 5 minutes to kill, Marc-Antoine Lacroix, Msc student from HEC Montréal, is conducting a survey of needs of website owners for his final research project. I have created a very short online survey that requires less than 5 minutes to complete. The survey is confidential and contains [...]
Praizes releases Praize’n'Raze for local recommendations
There is a lot of local activity currently on a Facebook application soft-launched by startup Praized late last friday. The application allows you to vote up (dubbed “praize”) and vote down (“raze”) local shops and places. Since the vast majority of the application’s users are in Montréal, we’ve got then on the homepage the most [...]
Let’s discuss Web Infrastructure
In a poll which run here for the past 3 months, Amazon AWS and Google App Engine were choosen by MTW readers as the most promising technologies, well ahead of other new technologies with 34% of votes. I’ve grabbed then the opportunity to delve into virtualized and on-demand web hosting, aka cloud computing. We sat [...]
Datalicious.ca does data visualization and user interfaces
Datalicious is a relatively new company in Montreal started by Sébastien Pierre. As stated in the company’s homepage, it focuses on creating optimized interfaces for data visualization. Sébastien Pierre is a newcomer from Belgium and France, having started there a small software R&D company named ivy.fr. He is known for the revealicious project (demo also [...]
