Montreal Tech Watch

In what appears to be a 180 degree turn, Michelle Courchesne, Présidente du Conseil du Trésor of the government of Québec, announced that any governmental organization and any other entity depending on the government must consider open source software for any IT project, at the Salon du Logiciel Libre in Québec city “Must” is highlighted [...]

This week’s startup event is LeWeb, currently underway in Paris, France. The event features an impressive lineup, and is one of Europe’s biggest startups conference, gathering european angels, VCs, entrepreneurs and of course the startup ecosystem such as bloggers, media, star developers etc. It’s an excellent opportunity for Montréalers who wish to go international, with [...]

Next week, Jean-François Kitchiguine is organizing an Augmented Reality meetup at Station-C, with technical and as well as design discussions. Augmented Reality is the technic of adding digital information on a live display, like ads superimposed in live football games, or the huds display in fighter jets cockpits. More recently, augmented reality gained visibility with [...]

TrainingMobs and MontrealOuvert both presented their development efforts and results to the Montreal New Tech audience today. Jonas from TrainingMobs TrainingMobs is a social network website designed to get its members to train together, for various sports and activities. You sign up, join existing groups or suggest new activities if you want something new, while [...]

With MontrealOuvert’s first Hackathon last Saturday, more than 20 developers and hackers gathered to research and tinker about ways to get, display, and make available data from the City of Montréal and other affiliated organizations. As commented in a previous mtw post, MontrealOuvert aims to open up local data access to citizens. One of the [...]

Early this week, we have 2 interesting tech events, Cocoaheads and MtlNewTech The first event is Cocoaheads scheduled this evening, Monday Dec 6th, at Station-C, 5369 bvd St-Laurent. The meetup is modeled after the the Cocoaheads organized already in hundreds of cities worldwide, with the goal of discussing Apple’s cocoa framework. The event is organized [...]

For those who are motivated by the potential of technology and open data, there’s an open “hackathon” organized by MontrealOuvert tomorrow at Station-C, with the goal of designing and developing applications using Montréal data. There’s already 24 people registered for the event, with a mix of developers, graphic and product designers, and more people are [...]

Amyuni Technologies has launched this week the DevTouch Pro, an alternative tablet to mobile application developers who do not want to follow third-party guidelines and restrictive TOS from leading tablet vendors. Physically, it has a 7 inch resistive touchscreen, plus other electronic features not far away from other tablets (they all look like these days, [...]

For those who are looking to get into the new technologies industry in Montréal, don’t forget that there are regular postings at techentreprise.com, jobs section Montréal companies are hiring, and they are agressively looking for junior and senior programmers in php/ruby/.NET/javascript. It makes the majority of the postings. However, there are also many designers jobs, [...]

Today’s winning company is eBuzzTechnologies launching an “Electronic Quebec Tablet”, named eBuzz 2.1. The name raises heads, but the mystery ends quickly there. The ebuzz is very similar, if not identical, to the very well known iPad, from the layout, the colors, up the bezel and the home button seen on all iPhones, iPods and [...]