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Flixwagon, Qik Developing Video Streaming from iPhone

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 12, 2008 - 12:39pm.

Los Angeles - Mobile video developers Flixwagon and Qik are separately working on applications that will stream video from an iPhone, according to various reports. Both solutions will use the iPhone's built-in camera, and both are currently available only for jailbroken iPhones. The applications currently support limited video quality, but allow users to post videos to various sites, including YouTube.

tags: Mobile | Video | Apple | iPhone | QIK | Flixwagon |

Qik Lands $3 Million for Live Mobile Video Streaming

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 11, 2008 - 7:30am.

San Mateo, Calif. - Qik, a platform for streaming live video via mobile phones, announced this week that it has raised a $3 million second round of venture capital financing.

tags: Deals | Mobile | VC | Video | Twitter | QIK |

Buzz Watch: Robert Scoble Is Cell Phone Video Blogging From Davos

Authored by Jay Baage on January 24, 2008 - 12:44pm.

The blogging community can take a cue from Robert Scoble's cell phone video blogging from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, which is going on right now. It's pretty impressive - with a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N95, a WiFi connection and a QIK account, he is streaming a bunch of video interviews for the whole world to see (and it's all up there to be shared virally). It is surely the first time that this exclusive forum for world leaders, economists, technology experts, scientists, and other deep thinkers, has been reported on this casually.