Qik is available on over 200 mobile phones running Android, iOS, Symbian, BlackBerry OS and Windows Mobile, and comes preloaded on a wide variety of mobile handsets through partnerships with handset manufacturers and mobile networks.
Skype and Qik share a common purpose of enriching communications with video, and the acquisition of Qik will help to accelerate our leadership in video by adding recording, sharing and storing capabilities to our product portfolio.
Through this acquisition, we’ll also be able to take advantage of the engineering expertise that is behind Qik’s Smart Streaming technology, which optimizes video transmission over wireless networks.
Together, we’ll focus on providing great products that will allow people around the world to share experiences in real-time video across different platforms, as well as storing those moments so they can be viewed later.
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| Microsoft gets Skype, Skype gets Qik- America finally starts talking on the phone with THREE of the five senses, well assuming you listening to whom you're talking.
Well, gotta go- just found a nice new one to get onto- Google, siblings (especially older, male ones), the 1st Amm. to the Constitution, money, privacy, and jobs- all in one very long piece. In the mean time I meant to give you a tip here.
People love to hate VoIP phone systems- I almost don't want to say the word. I mean does EVERYTHING have to be digital? No, your PBX lines aren't- that's why you could very well have someone listening to your phone calls right now. The phone system going down? When's the last time your DSL went out? Not that a computer wouldn't get online- but you had to have Century Link come out and put in a new modem or something, because the whole Internet was out?? Anyone- I heard that smartass- yours' went out last month........ Well guess what? I said DSL, which 90% of businesses have, so if your DSL was out, so was your PBX or whatever phone you use- because they use the same line- the phone lines....
So what's the difference between, say Skype, Google Voice, the service I have with Charter or Century Link (or whatever they have here now).
First, let me say this- I have 6 phone lines and pay $60 a month. If you can beat that, I'll pay your bill for a year. Add the Direct TV and other partner lines (800 numbers, and I've got about 12- $60/ mo.) $55 of that is my cell phone, by the way where I get Verizon with 2GB of data and unlimited talking and texting without a contract. I'm with the ONLY nationwide carrier of Verizon's complete network- want to know who that is? Call me- 828-MIX-PLUS or 828-919-TECH....
Quickly here's the difference... Skype is great for home and your cellular. But it takes very low bandwidth to use per call. The business version is stepped up a bit, but not much. If you used a SIP converter to a PBX system and had Skype for your service, yes- you'd throw your phone at the wall.
Businesses- in this case...not all- need a business class service. My favorite (and I've tried them ALL- believe me) is Ring Central, BY FAR. Where a 1 minute call using Skype might take 20 kilobytes of bandwidth, that same call using Ring Central would take about 85 kb. This ensures a solid connection with no fading or waning, and thus begins the platform for a virtual PBX, answering attendant and all sorts of stuff- the best part is... .It's really not Virtual at all anymore- it's here, and here to take over the market, once CFO's find that they can save a company with 25 employees thousands of dollars per month by using such a service. How? First, there's no monopoly with VoIP as the phone company has. Most importantly though- the Internet and transmissions over it are free.. You're not using AT&T's creation which meshed with MCI's tangle of wires............ You're at the top- in the clouds... And it's getting less and less lonely up there, lemme tell ya... These are what is going to bring our nation out of the economic slump that we've begun to crawl away from already. The extra funds executives will have using systems that not only save thousands per month, but offer dozens of extra services at no charge- these things will bring us back.... Out of the 90's, and into the great One- Century 21.
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