Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsA little bit of everything

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

What a great month for QIK

Uber cool Jackie Danicki QIK’s new Director of Marketing is arriving in Cork for a series of meetings, well not really its a bit of a beano. Anyway she is arriving on Friday and I was hoping to get a bunch of people to A Taste of Thailand on Friday night at 8pm If you [...]