Montreal Tech Watch

If you’ve got a functional product, or if you are about to launch a beta version of your project, the best place currently to show it off is next week’s montreal new tech. You get a large tech-savvy audience, with programmers, designers, entrepreneurs, bloggers, tweet friends (tweeps ?!??), curious to discover what’s new in Montreal. [...]

TandemLaunch Technologies actually started their operations last spring, but I only noticed them at recent tech events. In its core, it’s an incubator by Helge Seetzen, who has launched previously 2 technology startups, based on core university research, and saw the value of commercializing university work. Now, Helge Seetzen is willing to work with students [...]

Foulab, Montreal’s hacker space, is organizing Saturday Feb. 5th a computer vision workshop at their lab. For those interested in shapes recognition, “intelligent” video processing, and hardware hacking, it’s an ideal opportunity to learn the basics and start your project. The workshop will focus on OpenCV, an open source computer viz library. The workshop will [...]

IgniteMontreal is coming up in early February. For those who weren’t there at the first edition, it’s a series of eclectic presentations, with the goal of inspiring all attendees. As such, the presentations are quick (<5mn), a slide is only seen for 15 sec, and innovative ideas/projects are encouraged to present, pretty much like the [...]

For those who have been going to Usability Fix, or go other startup events in Montreal, you know now all about Wajam, a new social search engine that taps into your social networks for better results. After Wajam’s public presentation at StartupCamp Montreal, wajam is now accepting more users to try out the new search [...]

Louis Cleroux (@itradelive), an entrepreneur who’s been developing iPhone and iPad application for the past year, has a new video games project for the iPad. Here’s a proof of concept: What’s stunning about this new project is that he’s done a working iPad game in less than 2 weeks, and it also uses the Unreal [...]

Radio Canada’s Triplex blog highlights service restrictions for Internet consumers. In an era where video sites offers feature-length 1080p videos, and platforms like iTMS offering all existing media with a single click, we’re seeing paradoxically the end of unlimited Internet service. The CRTC recently accepted the case presented by the top-tier ISPs, and summoned smaller [...]

Brendan Sera-Shriar (@digibomb), community manager at Vanilla Forums, and also active member of the local tech community, is launching soon StartupBump, a service where users can bump (vote up) startup ideas. There are no functional app available yet but you can get in the mailing list. Brendan will be using Vanilla Forums for the back-end, [...]

In the spirit of gathering any Montréaler interested in augmented reality technology, the next ARMTL meetup will cover a diversity of topics, aimed at starting discussions and perhaps also local projects. The event is scheduled in just a couple of days, this wednesday at 6pm, at Station C, 5360 St-Laurent #430. The first topic will [...]

Wikipedia is most probably humanity’s 8th wonder, with millions of small hands collecting little by little all the world’s knowledge and history, a feat unfeasible by any government but achieved by the Wikimedia foundation with the simple principle that anyone can edit a page. Marc Laporte, known for the Tiki Wiki open source project, got [...]