The year is 2020. Somewhere in an African village a father is having a conversation with his son. “When you were just a little boy, we didn’t have phones that check water quality.” As incredible as it sounds, the technology is very real. The prototype was developed in just a few days by a local [...]
Appifier, still in beta but already accessible to a few early users, helps bloggers reach the mobile market, by giving them a dedicated mobile version of their site, with a simple registration and a few clicks. With the number of blogs estimated to 151 millions in Feb 2011, Appifier is attacking a big market, in [...]
Conor Clarke, a young entrepreneur fresh from McGill university, and his co-founder at wavo.me are working hard to push an alpha version of their new social multimedia reader at next week’s International Startup Festival. It’s an ideal opportunity, similar to web startups who are targeting SXSW, the huge digital mecca conference where Twitter and others [...]
Augment is a toolbox allowing you to generate textured 3d models on the fly and visualize them in a real environment using a marker (a letter format printed sheet of paper). See the following video lets you discover how it works:. Today, more than 2000 users are using Augment and they have access to 1 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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