Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsMobile, Roaming and Social Media

Many of you probably don’t even remember the last internet bubble I know I barely can but on visits to San Francisco its whispered about in hushed tones.
These are probably the best synopsis of it on Wikipedia and The Economist.
Lately we are seeing similar circumstances with very high IPO value’s for companies who haven’t really [...]

We launched our partnership with Qik at the beginning of April this year.
We went to ton of of trouble to get these giant sims made by the fantastic Fran of Made in Hollywood but DHL in their wisdom lost them
Anyways all’s well that ends well, they turned up today 3 months later.
Don’t the lads look [...]

Sometimes things really do come together and todays announcement at Qik was a beginning of a new road and the end of a very long journey.
We had been discussing this product since MWC 2008 so I was so happy to get it out the door.
A few noteworthy people to thank first though.
Tainaste Mary Coughlan, incredible, [...]

This post got me thinking
“93 of top 100 brands don’t control their Twitter name”
I know Zappos have done an amazing job with twitter and I have engaged with their CEO Tony Hsieh who has over 30,000 fans including me.
Shel has been interviewing a number of corporate Twitterers for his book Twitterville but I am yet [...]

Great news from the Redwood City Rockstars qik
They have just released support for billions of J2ME phones.
Now we will see huge adaption numbers from the man on the street
Supported handsets includeNokia S40 Phones:
- Nokia 5300
- Nokia 6300
- Nokia 6500 classic
- Nokia 6500 slide
- Nokia 6555
- Nokia 8800 Arte
Sony Ericsson JP-8 Phones:
- Sony Ericsson K850
- Sony [...]

At last I can talk
Netscape founder Marc Andreessen has completed a round of investment into buddies QIK.
This is a serious move for Andreessen and longtime business partner Ben Horowitz.
Andreeson who broke my chops a bit on a TC40 panel last year during my MAXroam presentation is regarded as one of Silicon Valley’s smartest [...]

This is an amazing story.
His holiness Pope Benedict XVI is on qik
Memories of 1979 and a field in Limerick coming flooding back, “young people of Ireland I love you”
“Today we came to know that the The Vatican has started using Qik (qik.com/h2onews) to document Pope’s travels and events that will primarily be made available [...]

Things are moving rapidly for my friends at QIK.
I am hearing all sorts of rumours including some serious progress on the business side.
qik are midway through a huge set of upgrades and the platform stability is now really quite amazing.

With a cool new website and a number of innovative upgrades I think the battle for [...]

Big news from my friends at QIK Bhaskar Roy and Jackie Danicki
“Tomorrow morning, we are going to announce support for Windows Mobile as an additional platform. So far, Qik has been on the Symbian S60 platform, and people have been streaming live video from these Nokia S60 phones. In tomorrow’s announcement, we’ll be announcing support [...]

What a great month for QIK

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