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A 92 million $ investment in radio communications company Ultra Electronics was announced last week, with officials from the QC government also present at the announcement, as they will provide $14 M in the total package through its Programme d’Appui Stratégique à l’Investissement. Ultra Electronics makes radio systems, with integrated hardware and software for the [...]

For Montreal video games indies, there are 3 interesting events this month for designers and developers alike: Ludum Dare is a marathon to produce a game in just under one weekend. It running now, since Friday evening. This announcement is of course a bit late to participate, but you still have time to check out [...]

YearOneLabs are organizing early next year a hackathon, on Jan 22nd, at RPM. It will be a day fully dedicated to application development on the Google App Engine platform. Sean Lynch, product manager for Google App Engine, will be in Montréal that day to help developers jumpstart with App Engine. Although Google App Engine has [...]

Guest post from Dominique Jodoin, CEO of Bluestreak Technology, who put together the five most important trends of this past year.
Bluestreak Technology is the proven leader in software presentation solutions, deployed on multi-screen embedded devices, such as set-top boxes, digital televisions, mobile phones, and other consumer electronics.

There is now currently an active online campaign to fight the upcoming Bill C-32, with various artists’ organization launching Facebook petitions, creative Youtube videos, and also websites such as culture equitable. Here’s a recent Ottawa video by Biz (from rapper group Loco Locass) The material is convincing, with direct calls to the viewer to save [...]

Yesterday, coworking space Station-C featured ARMTL’s second meetup, with 15 or so developers, designers and entrepreneurs discussing augmented reality’s potential. The talks covered available hardware on the market, mainly mobile devices, and also discussed available image recognition and 3D software on the market. There were lots of interaction, with a few fun moments where we [...]

Montreal-based telecommunications services company Anomalous Networks announced on 14th Dec funding from Blackberry Partners Fund and from angel investors group AngesQuébec. Anomalous Networks helps other companies manage mobile telecom costs, with customizable software able to track voice and data usage. What started out as a consulting company which would help companies analyze their cellular data [...]

The last tapintuesday event was hosted at RPM, a coworking space in GriffinTown. The new space supports technology entrepreneurs, by hosting various events such as last month’s hackmtl, thus making it a great venue for Tapintuesday. Marc Gingras (@mgingras) was the star of the evening. Marc is founder and also CEO of Tungle, and presented first [...]

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The CBC reports that Montréal-based Cirque du Soleil and acclaimed canadian director James Cameron are partnering for theatrical projects, with a first movie underway, directed by Shrek’s director. James Cameron, who instigated the 3D development behind Avatar, will be bringing his technology expertise as an executive producer. As most of you knows, the Cirque du [...]