Montreal Tech Watch

Last friday, 30 to 40 people gathered at engineering school ETS with the goal of producing a game in just one weekend. It was nice to see the organizing team Conjure inviting designers, writers and artists for the weekend, plus also attendees from outside Montréal. That’s how you get pioneering ideas! The event is part [...]

The fact that unlimited Internet service was going to disappear soon didn’t really seem to bother anyone. I wrote how this is going to be a grim situation, with Canadians soon to lag behind . The news is getting picked up though by social media websites. It’s finally on reddit’s frontpage, shocking video games users, and [...]

I’ve written about Hackers and Founders and why it should check it out. Last thursday, a section of Bocaccino’s was reserved for the Hackers & Founders meetup. The event was started by Mikael Cho, a young entrepreneur, recently arrived in Montréal from Wisconsin and other parts of the world, and who already saw the Hackers [...]

ISP performance in the US ISP Performance in Canada This week’s good news for Canadian consumers come from Netflix. With one of the most advanced video-streaming infrastructure, and an openess typical of upstarts, the innovative american company has published performance graphs of different internet service providers. We all know each ISP advertise differently their service, [...]

This will surely be the most exciting and most popular app in Montréal this month, if it holds its promise of letting users view in real-time the hottest parties in Montréal nightclubs. Picture St-Laurent on a Friday night, with exuberant, excited and young party-goers queuing up at a trendy bar, only to discover a loud [...]

14 Hackers and Founders are meeting up today at Boccacino’s, a restaurant on 1251 McGill college street. It’s scheduled at 6pm and is planned up until 9pm, and is an opportunity for potential developers and entrepreneurs to connect and talk about digital ventures. If you read Hacker News, then it’s a meetup you should definitively [...]

A group of motivated students from ETS (École de Technologie Supérieure) is organizing this weekend the Global Game Jam, challenging teams to create a full video game in just 3 days. The format, deadline, pressure, as well as the focus on new ideas and innovation remind me a lot of Blitzweekend and ulteriour startup weekend [...]

For a technology topic which was relatively unheard of in Montreal, Jean-François Kitchiguine (@jfkitchiguine) has succeeded in bringing together application developers, professionals as well as a mixed crowd of curious Montréalers interested into this new technology. It’s as if someone decided to create a 3D image capture in Montréal and gets overnight 20 or 30+ [...]

Recruiter: ProForce Position: web/.Net Developer – Start Up Responsibilites and Tasks: Our client is looking for a web/.Net developer, focusing mainly on web content management. Success in this position will involve a flexible approach to problem solving, technical innovation and strong communication skills. Educational Background: University Bachelor degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or [...]

Pléiade Capital, a students initiative regrouping business school HEC Montreal, Université de Montréal, and engineering school Polytechnique de Montréal, is organizing tomorrow evening a conference with Chris Arsenault (@chrisarsenault) from iNovia Capital and François Gilbert from Anges Québec. The event is named “Enjeux et Opportunités du Capital de Risque au Québec”, which I expect to [...]