Qik Launches First Live Mobile Video Streaming on Mass Market Phones

Qik, Inc, the live mobile video streaming platform, today announced that it is the first live mobile video product to launch on mass market mobile phones.

"Available today in alpha, Qik's service is now ready for use on more than a dozen Nokia and Sony Ericsson mass market mobile handsets.

With Qik's free service, users can stream video live to the Internet in just two clicks from their mobile phone. Those watching the videos on the web can engage in live interactive chat with the person broadcasting. "

[via MarketWatch]

Nokia and Spike Lee make a 'people film'

Nokia has premiered its first user generated Nokia Productions film in league with director Spike Lee. Mobile Entertainment reports.

"The film was made by ‘everyday’people, using Nokia devices to generate and submit original content, which was then edited by Lee. Nokia and T-Mobile debuted the end result at a live event in LA.

Lee invited the public to submit original text, music, video or images around themes of birth, life and death to www.nokiaproductions.com. Over 4,000 pieces of original content were uploaded and over 350,000 visitors accessed the site."

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Nokia and Spike Lee team up with Nokia on short film

All the Warner Bros movies on your phone

A partnership between Warner Bros and DivX means you'll be able to watch all the current and back catalogue Warner Bros titles on hundreds of devices.

DivX-certified devices have multiplied in the last few months, likely in anticipation of such a deal, so you'll be able to buy movies digitally and watch them on LG and Samsung phones, iRiver PMPs, PlayStation 3s and many Blu-ray and DVD players.

[via TechRadar]

Actress Rossellini probes insect sex in phone-films

Festiival Pocket Films, a film fest just for pocket-sized movies on mobile phones came of age in its fourth edition this weekend, with a series of flicks on the sex lives of insects by the actress Isabella Rossellini. The AFP reports.

"The minute-long films, a series of eight titled "Green Porno", are on handsets dangling on wires from a "mobile phone tree" in Paris' Pompidou Centre, for the three-day Pocket Films festival which opened Friday.

"Their format -- shot exclusively for viewing on 3G technology mobile phones -- make them the "films of the future," Rossellini told AFP in an interview. "Watching (war epic) 'Apocalypse Now' on a mobile telephone is no fun -- it was conceived as a big spectacle. But this tiny screen can be a new canvas for directors," she said."

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Motorola signs Paramount Pictures deal for mobile movies

Motorola has announced a deal with Paramount Pictures to make a stack of movies available for download to its handsets in the UK, with Germany, Italy, Spain and France due to follow soon. You’ll actually browse and buy the films on Motorola’s UK website, before downloading them to your PC and sideloading them onto your phone.

[via Pocket Picks]