Category Archives: Mobile

Mobile Monday Montreal

Finalement, Montréal aura son premier Mobile Monday, le lundi 14 avril. Que vous ayez participé à l’encan d’Industrie Canada pour obtenir une licence d’opérateur, développez des jeux pour portables ou êtes simplement amoureux du iPhone, je vous encourage tous à venir en grand nombre.
- L’annonce officielle
- Le site web

Montreal Wireless Developers Unite!

Last week I was speaking at the Interfaces Mobilité event and two trends quickly became apparent: (1) people are fed up with Byzantine and expensive Cellco pricing schemes and (2) they long for carriers to open up their platforms to developers and start-ups. Nothing new here under the Canadian sun.
What is new however, is that [...]

A location based services rant, part II

Back in the day, Wired ran an article called “Netheads vs. Bellheads“. It was an interesting read, but I didn’t fully grasp how wide the cultural divide was until I went to work for a Telco. When Alexander Graham Bell got his prototype working, the first thing he did was patent it. Telephony has been [...]

A location based services rant, part I

I love the insane rate of innovation online. The application independent nature of the Internet Protocol allows any hacker with an itch to scratch it. With broadband at work, home, school and free Wi-Fi increasingly available everywhere in between, our favorite applications are never very far whenever we stop moving and boot up our laptops [...]