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Qik allows your mobile phone to broadcast videos on live by streaming on the internet.

At the beginning of the year, this application was published but in a restricted way, only available for pre-registered or invited users. Now it has been published in a beta version and it is available for anyone who signs up in the website, even if you doesn’t want to stream videos but see and comment other people videos.

If you sign up you will be able to stream videos on a website directly from your mobile phone using your data plan to connect to the internet. In this new version you will have the chance of creating areas for your videos, grouping and making them public or private.

This new public version includes support for new phones such as Motorola Q or Nokia N96, and in following versions it will include support for iPhone 3G and several devices from HTC as HTC Touch Diamond.

One more feature of Qik is that the latency from the start of the recording to the beginning of the broadcasting on the internet is just between a half-second and 3 seconds. Half a second is extremely fast! This makes Qik the fastest and most live system of the online video streaming sites.

I’m sure that live video streaming from mobile phones is becoming something important in our lifes, better than just sending multimedia messages so that with Qik we can share on live our streams with whoever we want.

Via xatakamovil

Caixa Penedes by the hand of SevenCLick, company of  the TBS Group specialized in development and consultancy services on mobile technologies, presents its Online Banking application completely developed fo the iPhone.

Coinciding with the launch of the iPhone 3G in Spain next July 11th, clients of Caixa Penedes could accede from this link mobile.caixapenedes.com to new surroundings of acces for iPhone in which to consult and operate with their accounts, as well as visualize corporative and commercial information and social responsibility of this entity.

Accounts and cards global liquids, account movements consultancy, money transfers between own accounts or another accounts, charging prepaid mobile phone accounts, branch and cashier localization via Google Maps, are some of the features supported, all of them specifically developed for the first time using to the limit the capacities of the famous device of those of Cupertino.

Link Press release
Link CaixaPenedes
Link MobileCaixaPenedes

“Nokia Email service is mobile email made easy.” This can be read on the official Nokia Email website, home of a new service still in beta, which will help you if you are one of these Internet addicts who need a permanent link to your online world. Thanks to it, you will have Push Email on you Nokia smartphone, enjoying real-time follow-up of your email accounts.

As a beta service, it only works with POP and IMAP accounts. “Corporate email and MSN Hotmail are not currently supported”, Nokia explains… but hey, read the FAQ : “There is no charge for using Nokia Email service during the beta trial.” Hope this lasts long!

Via Gizmóvil

Yes, we enjoyed with Picasa for iPhone and since april, also for Windows Mobile. There was only one left, and here it is, Picasa for the Nokia S60 platform is finally here.

If you want to give a try of any of this versions, just access picasaweb. It will detect your device and adapt accordingly. And it will do it really nice, I promise.

Here you have a few screenshots, and if you feel like reading, here you have the Google´s Mobile Blog posts for the releases: S60, WM and iPhone.

I bet we´ll have also an Android version as soon as the first devices hits the streets… and I guess that one will be the best of them all.

Via Google Mobile Blog

According to a study by Nielsen Mobile (a service of The Nielsen Company), Spain achieved the more than respectable third place on percentage of mobile subscribers who access social networks over the mobile Internet, just following U.S . and U.K.

Source: Nielsen Mobile; EU data Q1 2008, US data December 2007.

Of course, Myspace.com and facebook were the most visited sites, with the exception of Italy and France on first quarter of 2008 were MSN’s Windows Live Spaces become the leader.

Read More on Social Networking Going Mobile, Nielsen Finds

It is time for Opera Mobile to bring us the opportunity to work on internet applications without internet connection thanks it will support Gears in its desktop and mobile browsers.

“Opera will have full support for Gears on mobile when they launch this year,” said Charles Wiles, Product Manager for mobile web apps at Google. “Opera Mobile 9.5 will be a great example of a high-quality browser on a mobile platform that supports Gears. This marks the coming of age of the browser as the platform for application development on mobile devices.”

“The forthcoming Opera Mobile 9.5 with Gears will usher in a new era for the Web on mobile devices,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. “Together, these products will create new ways to bring applications to life on mobile devices. Developers will be able to use this along with Opera Dragonfly to develop and debug compelling applications for any connected environment.”

Great!

Link Opera Press release

Do you think Opera is a minor alternative? I really don´t have any numbers, but from my view, Firefox and Safari have been increasing their fans, as well as Opera has not ever been noticed as a strong competitor on desktops systems (do you know someone using it on his/her desktop? ).

Opera´s main advantage is its focus on mobile devices on the last years, which results are good: now it´s the preferred option for web-browsing on Windows Mobile devices, and probably also for less powerful devices (thanks to Opera Mini, whose 4.1 version was released recently).

Now Opera has played an intelligent move, with the new Opera Widgets SDK Beta. This SDK allows you to create widgets (mini-apps) which will work on desktops AND mobile devices (not only smartphones, even ARCHOS multimedia devices). So this cross-platform capabilities may be a good leap on desktop systems, we will see how well those widgets integrate and how much people likes and uses them. I would bet for a system who lets me use the same little app on my desktop, mobile, PDA, Nintendo Wii or other devices.

The SDK is open source and follows the same pattern of other SDKs like Google´s Web Toolkit or iPhone´s SDK (even in the logo image! lol). It provides useful libraries for I/O, RSS, Graphics, etc; as well as lots of info, an emulator and DragonFly (Opera´s Firebug).

Now it´s your time for installing Opera and trying some widgets from the Opera Widgets site.

Via XatakaMovil

Links Opera – Opera Widgets SDK – Opera Widgets site – Opera Widgets cross-platform capabilities – Opera Mini 4.1 released – DragonFly – Firebug

At present mobile phones are more like a PDA than a cell phone.

For people who want a mobile phone in which only have installed what they need and have a relay telephone and personal well see exactly what they need, the RKS Group Design has created the Mimique.

Where the Mimique really sets itself apart is that it is designed to take advantage of the new, open-source cell phone technologies being developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance.

The combination of open source software and touch-screen technology will make the Mimique easily upgradable and will extend the lifespan of the phone , because of to add new features enough to download the new functionality.

Via Unplggd

Opera Mini 4.1 lets you have the full Web everywhere. This newest release includes several new features, including automatic completion of Web addresses, making it easier to get to the sites you need; tools for attaching files to Web-based email; uploading photos to your blog or other site; downloading attachments from email for storage on your phone; and saving and viewing pages offline.

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Brightkite is not another microblogging tool, it is like twitter or Pownce, but with some handy location-based features. It let you see what people around you are doing in real time.

You can attach your current position to small 140 character posts, it also lets you see who is around you based on when they “checked in.

Users can create for places they frequent often and meet people who do the same activities, like gym or café, in order to avoid having to type it out each time they post.

Maybe it is one of the best options of microblogging available for mobile. You can create an account now, but is still a beta.

Via Loogic

Link Brightkite