Montréal Technology News

Stop Telemarketing calls with a Blackberry App

Posted by Eric Floresca on Fri, March 19, 2010 12:21 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada , Mobile · No Comments
In a world where we find our personal privacy slipping away First Orion PrivacyStar’s mobile app allows people to take control. Available for Blackberry, the simple app allows users to block all unwanted calls, ID unknown callers using their caller lookup and makes is simple to report those annoying and unwanted... [more]

Public Mobile launches in Toronto and Montreal

Posted by Karim Kanji on Fri, March 19, 2010 8:24 AM · Filed under Montréal, Toronto , Wireless, Start-up, Mobile · No Comments
It may not have been a big launch party or a bash but it was a launch nonetheless.  Public Mobile, Canada's newest entry in the wireless marketplace, finally opened for business in both Toronto and Montreal yesterday.  And maybe they've learned a lesson or two from the start-up cousin, WIND... [more]

The Future of TV in Canada: Digital Convergence and Alternative Platforms

Posted by Trevor Doerksen on Thu, March 18, 2010 7:51 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada , Digital Media, Government, Mobile, iPhone · No Comments
The following is a guest post from Trevor Doerksen, CEO of Calgary's Mobovivo - a digital media company focused on the challenges Broadcast and Media companies face in marketing and delivering premium content to audiences on alternative platforms. The new Canada Media Fund, to launch the last week of March,... [more]

PayPal’s new iPhone App lets Canadians send money for free

Posted by Rob Lewis on Thu, March 18, 2010 4:02 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada , Mobile · 1 Comment
Earlier this week PayPal Canada GM Darrell MacMullin blogged about their new iPhone App that lets Canadians send money for free. With the PayPal Send Money application for iPhone, Canadians can now pull out their phone instead of their wallet when they want to send or... [more]

Mob4Hire releases first look at their Global Wireless Survey

Posted by Rob Lewis on Thu, March 18, 2010 3:38 PM · Filed under Denver-Boulder, Portland, Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, South-Florida, Atlantic-Canada , Research, Mobile · No Comments
Earlier this week Calgary's Mob4Hire released a first look at the results of their Global Wireless Satisfaction Survey conducted in collaboration with Business Over Broadway in February of this year. The unprecedented 111 country survey analyzes the impact of mobile apps on operator’s churn - # of new customers acquired... [more]

The numbers are in: The interactive and online Olympics

Posted by Karim Kanji on Thu, March 18, 2010 7:57 AM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada , Events, Video, Mobile · No Comments
Whether Canada owned the podium or not, one thing is clear:  The Olympic Consortium, headed up by CTV, owned the Olympics.  Over the course of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, over 28 million videos were viewed and more than 215 million pages were viewed on CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca.According to their... [more]

The Truth: What Canadians pay for wireless service with Rogers, Bell and Telus

Posted by Karim Kanji on Tue, March 16, 2010 11:24 AM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada , Wireless, Mobile · 2 Comments
Who really provides the best deal in Canada?  When it comes to wireless the debate, in public at least, has been going on for years.  Rogers Wireless recently called themseves the MOST relieable network.  Telus filed a complaint.  Now Rogers is just reliable.  Did anything really change.  Probably not.  You... [more]

Chevy Volt now comes with mobile app powered by OnStar

Posted by Karim Kanji on Tue, March 9, 2010 7:51 PM · Filed under Denver-Boulder, Portland, Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, South-Florida, Atlantic-Canada , Wireless, Mobile · No Comments
  Back in January, at the Consumer Electronics Show, Chevrolet announced a joint venture program with OnStar which unveiled the auto industry’s first working smartphone application that will allow Chevrolet Volt owners 24/7 connection and control of vehicle functions and OnStar features remotely. The app allows drivers... [more]

Canpages adds augmented reality to its Canada Eye

Posted by Warren Frey on Fri, March 5, 2010 8:41 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria , Wireless, Mobile, iPhone · No Comments
Canpages, the upstart challenger to the Yellow Pages, has scored another minor coup with their Canada Eye app. Starting Monday, the app will be available with an augmented reality feature dubbed "the eye" which uses the iPhone 3GS compass and GPS functionality to overlay labels in real world images.  Simply open... [more]

High speed Internet expansion hampered by old industrial models

Posted by Robert Janelle on Fri, March 5, 2010 10:01 AM · Filed under Denver-Boulder, Portland, Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, South-Florida, Atlantic-Canada , Wireless, Events, Telecom, Research, Government, Mobile · No Comments
Old 20th century industrial models are holding back the expansion of high speed Internet access across North America, according to a Harvard law professor. Delivering the keynote address at the University of Ottawa launch conference for Centre for Law, Technology and Society, Yochai Benkler detailed the challenges related to expanding next... [more]