Montreal Tech Watch

Montreal-based startup Ajah has launched today TheSector, an ambitious online database of non-profit organizations. Visitors can search for a specific NGO, with successful queries showing background information, sources of revenues, activities, board of directors, all within a readable & user-friendly page. For instance, you can see here the page about Médecins Sans Frontières Canada. Analysts, [...]

The previous augmented reality meetups brought a mixed crowd together, all curious, if not excited, about the potential of augmented reality. Now, JF Kitchiguine, instigator of the ARMTL series, wants to offer 2 separate tracks, one dedicated for business and marketing oriented people, and another one for developers. The upcoming meetup this wednesday at Station-C [...]

It’s not often that you see a company confessing that their name or product sucks, but that’s what Shwowp shocklingly did last week, at least for the name part. One of the reasons Shwowp didn’t get mentionned on MontrealTechWatch was because of the name. If one has to look in the email archivers or twitter [...]

George Favvas (@georgefavvas) is known in Montréal for starting smarthippo.com, a crowdsourcing site that let users find the best mortgage rates. With the combination of mortgage rates database, Q&A section, reviews plus also partnerships with financing institutions, smarthippo provided key information to prospective homeowners or those looking for re-financing, mainly in US markets. The big [...]

The Montreal .NET web developers group is organizing a developer meetup this upcoming wednesday at Evocatio Solutions Technologiques‘ offices. The meetup will feature a presentation by Darrel Miller, CTO at Tavis Software, with a focus on how to leverage REST architecture systems to build rich media clients on the desktop, as well as on other [...]

here’s a poll about doing the Hackers and Founders event as a breakfast / coffee style meetup.

Montreal-based Nu Echo has launched this week Mirador, a service which allows companies to monitor performance and uptime of their IVR applications. IVR stands for Interactive Voice Response, a system used by most utilities, finance, or government organizations who need an automated telephony service, to be able to extend business hours and also better segmentation [...]

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The good folks from devLab are once again inviting programmers, hackers and pretty much everyone interested in development to come over to devLabs. Like every other week, it’s on wednesday evenings, from 6:30pm up until late in the night, at Evocatio’s offices. The concept is simple: gather developers and geeks and let them work freely [...]

MakeYourGirlfriendHappy.com, a service dedicated to save the day for men, has published a new countdown for Valentine’s day. The countdown displays a different product every day, each chosen by “professionals shoppers who will guarantee it will satisfy even the most particular woman”. The products can be purchased on the site and will be delivered before [...]