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| 08.11.2012 | INTV is Showcasing the Israeli Startups Innovation (Web) TV | Having built a reputation over the past three decades as the ‘Startup Nation,’ in recent years Israel has also begun to establish a name for itself as a TV format exporting powerhouse.
The most notable shows with Israeli origin are ‘Homelan... |
| 10.12.2010 | Justin.tv claims “frame reinsertion” will cross the quality gap in mobile live video streaming | Live video streaming site Justin.tv today announced an update that includes what it has dubbed “Frame Reinsertion,” which will allow users to upload the full resolution version of a video in the background, even as the video is being broadc... |
| 19.01.2010 | Qik rival Bambuser partners with Finnish public broadcaster | [Sweden] Bambuser, the Stockholm-based videocasting service that rivals the likes of Silicon Valley’s Qik, has announced a partnership with Finland’s YLE. The public service broadcaster represents Bambuser’s first major customer in 2010 and... |
| 02.12.2009 | Broadcast your own Christmas special via iPhone (just not live) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The holidays are an ideal time to use your iPhone... |
| 02.12.2009 | Broadcast your own Christmas special via iPhone (just not live) | The holidays are an ideal time to use your iPhone’s video capability to catch your nephew freaking out over a Wolverine Electronic Battle Claw — or maybe some bad behavior at the office Christmas party. But don’t expect to live stream any o... |
| 12.08.2009 | Capture Your Summer with Great Mobile Video Apps | One of the first appearances of a mobile phone in a major Hollywood movie was in director Billy Wilder’s 1954 Audrey Hepburn classic, “Sabrina”. Today, millions of phone owners across the world could recreate “Sabrina” from start to finish ... |
| 15.07.2009 | Whuffaoke or Bust: RWW’s Road Trip Resources | After publishing her book about social capital and the power of social networking,The Whuffie Factor, Tara Hunt is doing what any change agent does. She’s changing. She’s quit her job, purchased a winnebago and coerced five friends to karao... |
| 11.03.2009 | Qik announces support for Nokia's Share on Ovi, will be featured in the Ovi Store | Qik’s video streaming software began its life on the Nokia S60 platform, so it makes sense that a number of its recent big wins involve Finland’s finest. This morning, Qik is announcing that their application is now compatible with Nokia’s ... |
| 23.01.2009 | Streaming live reality shows: Is the technology ready? | Over the weekend, I participated in a novel live video experiment at Sundance Film Festival in Utah — and I promised to come back and explain what we’ve learned about the state of technology surrounding video.
The tools we tried out over a ... |
| 21.01.2009 | Ustream's iPhone Viewing Application Downloaded 113,000 Times in 24 Hours | Only two days after its release, Ustream’s iPhone Viewing Application has already hit the top spot of the App Store’s Entertainment section, and is ranked the 6th most popular free application overall. Ustream says that its latest figure fo... |
| 12.01.2009 | Why You Have To Jailbreak the iPhone | If you own an iPhone and you’re fairly technical, then you’ve no doubt gone through the steps necessary to “jailbreak” your iPhone – the process that opens up the phone to allow for the installation of unapproved third-party applications. H... |
| 22.12.2008 | Bambuser Gets A Facelift, Rejoins The Mobile Video Streaming War | We haven’t covered live video streaming startup Bambuser until now, but the Swedish startup is rapidly shaping up to becoming a formidable contender to the likes of Qik, Flixwagon, and Kyte in the race to turn mobile phones into portable TV... |
| 11.12.2008 | Ustream.tv working on mobile streaming app to take on Qik, Kyte, FlixWagon | (Clarification Update on the video: The above video was sent in to us – not produced by us. While the source indicates that the devices were both running on 3G, there’s no way for us to positively verify that one wasn’t running WiFi while t... |
| 03.11.2008 | Yahoo Live Fades Out | Live video streaming seemed to be all the rage for a while, popularized by startups like Justin.tv, Ustream, Qik, Mogulus and Flixwagon.
Yahoo jumped on the hype wagon back in February 2008 by launching Y!Live, an ambitious effort put forwa... |
| 01.11.2008 | 12seconds.tv Partners with Qik and Flixwagon | We introduced you to 12seconds.tv in late July. 12seconds.tv provides a quick and fun way to send out a video message that’s 12 seconds long. It’s a great service for hosting mini video contests and we suggested our own tongue-twisting cont... |
| 30.10.2008 | Flixwagon now compatible with Nokia's Share on Ovi | After the announcement that Qik would be a featured download on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, it looks like competitor Flixwagon is prepared to battle for their chunk of the Nokia mobile streaming market. Flixwagon has announced that they’re ... |
| 26.10.2008 | Qik Finally Brings Its Live Video Streaming To Blackberry | Qik, a startup that allows you to stream live video to the web directly from your phone, has launched support for RIM’s incredibly popular Blackberry platform. The software is currently available in an alpha state (so don’t be surprised if ... |
| 23.10.2008 | Mobile video streaming to hit Razr, BlackBerrys. Hello mainstream? | Last week we reported that Next2Friends had come out with what appeared to be the first application for the BlackBerry Curve and Pearl handsets to stream live video to the Web, in a similar fashion to early players like Qik, Flixwagon, and ... |
| 23.10.2008 | Video streaming comes to BlackBerry Bold, Razr soon. Hello mainstream. | Last week we reported that Next2Friends had come out with what appeared to be the first application for the BlackBerry Curve and Pearl handsets to stream live video to the Web, in a similar fashion to early players like Qik, Flixwagon, and ... |
| 16.10.2008 | First app to stream live video from a BlackBerry surfaces | There are a bunch of live video streaming apps for mobiles now: Qik, Flixwagon, Kyte and more. But till now the BlackBerry has been the unloved guy in the grey sit, sitting in the corner, unable to join the party. Qik is on Symbian S60, Win... |
| 02.10.2008 | Qik To Come Pre-Loaded On New Nokia Phone | Qik has announced that its video streaming software will come pre-installed on Nokia’s just-launched 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen phone – the first deal of its kind for the still-young startup. The deal marks a big win for Qik, as it will e... |
| 30.09.2008 | Kyte Mobile Producer Comes Out of Beta | Kyte‘s Mobile Producer for Nokia S60 phones has just come out of beta and is now publically available. The Mobile Producer allows you to stream video directly from your camera phone, or to upload video later, which is especially useful if y... |
| 16.09.2008 | Flixwagon Launches New Platform | Flixwagon, one of the top providers of live video broadcasting applications for consumers, has just announced the launch of a new telco-grade platform targeting both mobile carriers and media organizations. The platform is designed for inte... |
| 27.08.2008 | Qik Finds New Investors, Moving to the iPhone | |
| 25.08.2008 | Nokia N95 Test | Comparing Qik and N95 Video Quality
It's been two weeks since I returned the Nokia 95 to Nokia/WOM World which had been on loan as a demo trial device. I had a month to test it out and out it through its paces.
Nokia/ WOM World offers trial... |
| 16.08.2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 11-15 August 2008 | It’s the weekend, so time to review the week’s web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we looked at rising music social network Imeem, reported on Yahoo’s Fire Eagle project, checked in on the latest Web Off... |
| 14.08.2008 | Flixwagon Matches Qik With 3G iPhone Service, Apple Still MIA | Hot on the heels of its competitor Qik, mobile video service Flixwagon has released an application for the iPhone 3G that allows users to stream live video from their cell phones. Qik released a similar application for the iPhone 3G yesterd... |
| 14.08.2008 | Livestreaming From Qik and Flixwagon Comes to the iPhone | It’s no secret that the iPhone lacks video recording capabilities, which has served as a huge roadblock for companies and services that would like to introduce services that take advantage of video capabilities. For users that love to lives... |
| 21.07.2008 | Mobile phone video streaming service Qik opens public beta | Mobile phone video broadcast site Qik, which launched in private testing this spring, has opened today as a public beta.
Qik is a live video streaming site that turns the user's mobile phone camera into something of a remote webcam. Users a... |
| 20.07.2008 | Start Streaming: Qik Opens To The Public | Qik, the video service that streams live feeds from your mobile phone, has finally launched its public beta. The site has also introduced a number of new features to the service, including support for restricted group access to videos, self... |
| 17.07.2008 | Mobile Livecasting Faces Off: Qik vs Kyte vs Flixwagon | Over the course of the last year we’ve seen an explosion of startups looking to take streaming video to the mobile phone. Smartphones with high-speed data plans and video cameras are becoming increasingly commonplace, and many users are eag... |
| 10.07.2008 | WordPress and TypePad Spawn Mobile Blogging | http://v.wordpress.com/bMa9CH71/fmt_dvd
Forgive us while we navel-gaze for a minute, but we were particularly pleased to learn that a mobile app for WordPress will debut in the iPhone store soon. The app will work with both WordPress .com b... |
| 08.07.2008 | Flixwagon's Mobile Broadcasting Now Publicly Available | Mobile streaming service provider Flixwagon has added an array of new features in coincidence with its launch into public availability.
Among the new features, users can now register and download the client software through Nokia Symbian Se... |
| 14.06.2008 | Why Kyte.tv will kill Qik and Flixwagon in cell phone video space | The post below is written by Robert Scoble, a top blogger and the founder FastCompanyTV.
Robert has been one of the earliest adopters of cell phone video, which offers the ability to stream live to the Internet, with the primary tradeoff be... |
| 13.06.2008 | Dueling streaming video services prepare for iPhone launch | Yesterday, competing services Flixwagon and Qik both announced that they will be offering their live streaming phone-cam services for Apple's iPhone.
While neither is ready to open their developments to the public at present, both companies... |
| 12.06.2008 | Qik Strikes Back: Supporting The iPhone Next Week | Not to be outdone by competitor Flixwagon, Qik has just released its own demonstration of live video streaming from the iPhone (see below).
The demo comes just hours after Flixwagon made a similar announcement. However, Qik is one-upping Fl... |
| 12.06.2008 | Flixwagon Streams Live Video From The iPhone | Seven months after we first saw video on the iPhone in action, Flixwagon appears to have beaten its better-known rival Qik to the punch by getting its streaming video service to work on unlocked iPhones (or at least by demonstrating to the ... |
| 06.06.2008 | Qik streaming video begins alpha, adds Windows Mobile support | Qik, a service that allows its users to stream video from their phones live on the site, has begun its invitation-only alpha period and extended the list of supported devices to include select Windows Mobile handsets.
The idea behind Qik is... |
| 05.06.2008 | Qik Expands to Windows Mobile Platform | Tomorrow Qik, the popular webcasting service that streams video from your phone, will announce support for Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform. Actual support for phones will be rolled out in the coming months. To get things started, the si... |
| 10.04.2008 | Live video streaming company UStream.TV raises $11.1 million | http://ustream.tv/I9qIAGp79s6P76CrBpi1wQ.uscUStream.TV, a live video-streaming application, has raised $11.1 million in a first round of funding from venture capital firm DCM, as well as previous investors Labrador Ventures and The Band of ... |
| 11.02.2008 | Interview with Dov Moran, founder of Modu | http://flixwagon.com/flvPlayer.swf |
| 11.02.2008 | Interview with Dov Moran, founder of Modu | http://flixwagon.com/flvPlayer.swf
We just got out of an interview with Dov Moran, founder of Modu. As we suspected, the device is a module -based GSM system that includes a small, fully-functional phone and a set of “mates” or “jackets.” Y... |
| 08.02.2008 | UStream.TV looking to raise round, may be getting acquisition offers | http://ustream.tv/eFE24z9sKcTR7Z1Cw0.SMw.usc
Lifestreaming site UStream.TV is rumored to be in talks with Microsoft, for a purchase price of $50 million. However, the company’s chief executive, Chuck Wallace, tells us only that the company ... |
| 05.02.2008 | MTV, Flixwagon partner for Super Tuesday mobile news | Live video mobile broadcaster Flixwagon has partnered with MTV in an attempt to promote citizen journalism today, Super Tuesday.
MTV is using Flixwagon’s mobile-to-web broadcasting platform for its “Street Team” of youth journalists coverin... |
| 24.01.2008 | LiveCastr Launches; Next In Wave to Live Stream Video From Phone | Amsterdam based LiveCastr, a service that lets users live stream video from their mobile phone, launched today at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It joins a parade of competitors that have launched over the last couple of years, includin... |
| 02.01.2008 | 14 ways to broadcast yourself…live | updated
Thanks to the meteoric rise of YouTube, anyone with a video camera and an internet connection can be a star. More recently, they can live stream themselves to you 24/7, even from a mobile phone. Here we take a look at 14 companies c... |
| 18.12.2007 | FlixWagon Jumps On The Live-Mobile-Video Bandwagon | Live video streaming on the desktop may be just taking off in the U.S., but overseas this is already becoming a mobile phenomenon. Yesterday Mike Butcher of TechCrunch UK posted on Qik and its live video streaming service. Well it looks lik... |