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The Blackberry Partners fund was announced in early 2008. With capital totaling $150 million, the fund was to invest in mobile startups. While it was based both in Montréal and in Tornoto, and was to look into the mobile space locally, it also announced it will look at investment opportunities all over the world. It [...]

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 [...]

Starting Jan 1st, the Montreal Trudeau international airport will offer free wifi to anyone its premises, both in the public checkin areas, as well as the boarding areas. After connecting to the network, users will have to agree on the terms of service and will get free 60 minutes of free Internet. The service is [...]

There’s a website now for the upcoming mobile camp, due next spring in Montreal. The “conference” will gather mobile experts and enthusiasts about all things mobile. The event instigators, the two well-known local digerati @pluc and @digibomb, discussed during the last podcampmontreal and felt that event only scratched what’s possible and upcoming with mobile technologies, so continued [...]

One of the most active groups in Montreal, with its meetings and developer days, MontrealOuvert continues to make the case for open data in Montreal. Patiner Montreal was mentionned already in the latest hackathon, as one of the most advanced applications. There is now an Android application, made in record time, thanks to the fact [...]

mTrip, as the name might suggest, has launched for the past year customized mobile applications for the iPhone. Like many other guides, travellers could go to the Apple Store and choose one specific application available for each city. The interface and backend for each application are all the same, with mTrip producing different content each [...]

LocalMind has put up a new landing page. Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan), main founder of LocalMind, describes it as: Localmind will give you the ability to know what’s happening at any bar, club, restaurant, or any other venue in the world, right now. Real-time hyper-local information at your fingertips. So sign up for updates if you’re [...]