Montreal Tech Watch

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 [...]

Who hasn’t wished all the links from your network would be available on a single, user-friendly interface? Smartr, a new iPhone application, does just that by retrieving all the links and filter out spam. No more conversations, personal status updates, chatter, Smartr just displays links. Most recent items are placed on top, and items can [...]

Guest post from Dominique Jodoin, CEO of Bluestreak Technology, who put together the five most important trends of this past year.
Bluestreak Technology is the proven leader in software presentation solutions, deployed on multi-screen embedded devices, such as set-top boxes, digital televisions, mobile phones, and other consumer electronics.

Yesterday, coworking space Station-C featured ARMTL’s second meetup, with 15 or so developers, designers and entrepreneurs discussing augmented reality’s potential. The talks covered available hardware on the market, mainly mobile devices, and also discussed available image recognition and 3D software on the market. There were lots of interaction, with a few fun moments where we [...]

Montreal-based telecommunications services company Anomalous Networks announced on 14th Dec funding from Blackberry Partners Fund and from angel investors group AngesQuébec. Anomalous Networks helps other companies manage mobile telecom costs, with customizable software able to track voice and data usage. What started out as a consulting company which would help companies analyze their cellular data [...]

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, [...]

Text’NDrive gets today in TechCrunch’s top 15 iPhone apps. The hands-free application which allows mobile phone owners to text without typing and looking at their device’s screen was only launched 3 weeks ago. Granted, it’s only a guest post and it looks like a personal selection, not a list made from statistics or user ratings, [...]

Note: I am introducing a weekly and regular wrap-up listing new releases, mostly updates which couldn’t be covered in a regular article Here are noticeable releases this week: Vanilla 2 It’s a significant release, with significant work done on the add-on functionality and the core. Existing plugins, themes and other customizable features might not work [...]

Text’n Drive has been launched today in the US and in Canada as a safe way for drivers to check new emails and send messages, without actually having to stop or leave their eyes on the road. The application connects to your email server, checks if there are new unread messages, has a synthetic voice [...]

Fred Brunel, at WhereCloud office on St-Laurent, with the Yellow Pages iPad Application As most of you knows, Fred Brunel (@fbrunel) and Martin Dufort (@mdufort) were the first interested in iPhone application development in Montréal. Fred Brunel had an unconditional faith in all things Apple, while Martin Dufort was a big believer in mobile and [...]