Posts Tagged ‘QIK’

QIK launches on the Blackberry platform

Monday, October 27th, 2008

QIK, probably the best mobile video streaming platform has hit the Blackberry platform this morning. The system is alpha and they’ve got it working on almost every modern Blackberry — including the Pearl, the Bold, the Curve and the new Pearl Flip (which is a piece of goodness in itself).

Founder Bhaskar is radiating sheer excitement on the QIK blog about this news. It’s understandable. A lot of folk simply can’t operate without their Blackberry and it’s often the primary device choice for many, so this should help grow the QIK user base even faster.

If you’re already a Qikker, get the Blackberry alpha here. Otherwise you can download and install QIK by signing-up as normal.

If you’d like to see how it works on a Bold, Bhaskar’s made this vid for your viewing pleasure:

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Qik from your HTC phone; or the XPERIA X1 if you have one

Friday, September 5th, 2008

The awesome folks at Qik, the free service that lets you stream live video from your mobile phone, have just announced on their blog that the service now supports newer HTC phones. The developers, in the US and Russia, have been hard at work while sipping on some expresso, as the new release adds support for the following devices.

1. HTC Touch Dual

2. HTC Touch Diamond

3. HTC Touch Pro

4. HTC TyTn-II

5. AT&T Tilt

6. Sony Ericsson Xperia X1

The team also released an update for the iPhone version from 3.10 to 3.16 which adds location support and improved video quality. I’ve been using the service for quite some time now, and it’s been great so far. Of course, we here at MIR are great fans of the service too. 

Interested? They’re taking Sign-Ups now.

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QIK gets significant funding, two more Board Members

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Qik, the nifty little application available for various mobile phones that lets users record video directly on Qik’s servers and broadcast live over any kind of network has just received some investment from Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen. Though, the exact amount of the funding, expectedly, has not been disclosed.

Co-founder of the social network creator site Ning.com, Marc Andreessen, who just joined the Facebook Board Members has teamed up with Ben Horowitz, the VP and GM at Hewlett-Packard, to provide “significant investment” in the California based company. The Duo will also join the company as members of the board of advisors.

Qik is becoming immensely popular among the masses with its easy to install app and ability to start streaming within minutes. The site’s ability to integrate with popular social networks such as Twitter, MySpace and Orkut and even integrates with YouTube and Justin.tv

We, here, are great fans of Qik ourselves, having put it to use many a times. Citizen journalism is great fun in itself. Dan had covered the iPhone 3G launch in UK, while I was at the phone’s launch in India.

So, has Qik won now?

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QIK launch live streaming video for iPhone

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

You’ll need a jailbroken iPhone to play, but if you’d like to be amongst the very first to check out QIK’s iPhone 3G live streaming video service, this is the page you need: http://qik.com/sign_up.

Here’s Michael from QIK introducing it and demonstrating it:

It works with jailbroken iPhone and iPhone 3G running 2.0 of the software. More details here.

From Michael’s video demonstration, the implementation looks fantastic. Really, really smart stuff from the QIK guys.

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Mobile streaming video: Is the war over? Has QIK won?

Monday, July 21st, 2008

I’m wondering if the war is over. I’m looking through the QIK features and the ease of use… has QIK won the mobile 2.0 streaming video war?

Or is there more to come?

You can, by the way, get yourself a QIK account really easily now. They’ve lifted the beta registration restrictions as of today. Fly over to www.qik.com and you’ll be setup right-away.

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DUDE! “Go to QIK, go to QIK.com now! I wanna see if it works!”

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Want to see some students messing around when they should be working?

I was on QIK last night and this video popped up on the front page.

“Dude… people are talking to me!” says the chap on the phone.

Heh. It was me. I was talking to him ;-) (Although, I wasn’t telling him he was gay.. Heh, that was some anonymous person)

I like it when I come across people testing out QIK for the first time and then they see text feedback from the internet on their handset.

Have a look at this video featuring the ‘PSU library’ and students who should be studying:

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