Skifta

Stream Media to Your Android Phone or to Other People's Devices with Skifta

Every once in a while we get a taste of what the future's going to be like and Skifta tastes sweet.

Skifta: the only streaming app you’ll ever need?

…Skifta promises to be extremely useful, especially as we start wiring together our computers and phones.

Qualcomm uses DLNA app Skifta to promote digital home

Skifta, which has been in beta for close to a year, utilizes DLNA to give Android devices similar functionality as Apple’s Airplay protocol.

Skifta for Android exits beta, adds home media access over 3G

Skifta, a great little DLNA home media sharing app for Android, has just exited beta and is now officially 1.0.

Qualcomm launches Skifta streaming media app for Android

The Skifta media control solution touts Wi-Fi support for home access and 3G support for on-the-go access…

Skifta leaves beta, streams media to and from your Android device wherever you may be

…now it's left beta and added a new trick to its repertoire -- stream media from your other gear to your Android device, over 3G.

Skifta Android streaming app launches with 3G functionality

Pocket-lint covered the beta launch of Skifta back in February, and it's nice to see the final app come around within the year.

Skifta now streams music, photos, and video to and from Android devices over 3G or Wi-Fi

Anyone who uses media should explore how useful Skifta may be for them.

Android App of the Week

With so many connected devices now carrying a DLNA or UPnP sticker, shunting media from or through your phone – to a Wi-Fi enabled music player, telly or gaming console – is fast becoming an everyday requirement.

Android App of the Week: Total Network File Sharing With the Skifta App

Qualcomm Services Labs has just released a DLNA Certified app that is going to make things a little easier around the house or dorm room. With the Skifta beta, you can share all of your files within your home network – from TV to PlayStation 3, from phone to TV, and any...

Skifta in Stuff's Top 100 Apps of all time

Skifta, the media sharing app we designed for Qualcomm, has been featured in Stuff Magazines Top 100 Apps of all time. The entry sits in the video category alongside such apps as BBC iPlayer and Sky Mobile TV and is a testament to just how good Skifta is.

Get your head in the cloud with Skifta

By now, most people have at least heard of “cloud computing” and DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance), even if they’re not entirely sure what it is and how it works. Now, I’m not the most integrated circuit in the chipset.

Onkyo TX-NR609 Review

Like every other mid-range receiver we've tested this year, the TX-NR609 is DLNA-compliant, so you'll be able to stream music from compatible networked devices running a DLNA server.

Stream Media To Your Android Device With Skifta for Free, How To Setup?

Having a lot of music, videos, and pictures on your personal computer but you’re not at your desk most of the time and you still want to view your media content?

Skifta & The DLNA Movement

I had heard about Skifta through my friend Morgan a few weeks ago. Since I don’t have an Android to download the app, I had SoundCtrl blogger extraodinaire Alex Horowitz take a stab at it.

Using Skifta For Android App To Control Your DLNA Devices

Skifta is an Android App used to easily control, play and enjoy your music, videos and photos at home and on the move. This video show simple guide for using Skifta to controld DLNA Devices.

Talking streaming with Qualcomm's digital media gurus

We've been covering Qualcomm's Skifta project since almost the very beginning, from when the DLNA streaming media system was a simple 2009 side-project in the chipset company's labs, to its status as a legitimate standalone product with an eye on potential revenue streams...

BBC Interviews Skifta

Rory Cellan-Jones interviews Ed Smith from Skifta...

Skifta Adds SomaFM to Streaming Channel Line Up

You may remember the crew from the Android Guys Thursday Night Droid-Cast/Stream doing an interview with the people behind Skifta, a DLNA and UPnP app for Android that allows you to access your music, photos and videos from any source, including remote access to your home files and play them on any...

Skifta – A global remote control

We went to see something called Skifta today. It's available right now in the Android Market and is "a global remote control for your media". You can access media on your phone, from the cloud and from media at your home. We spoke to Gary Brotman who told us that they're the first ever software...

Skifta connects you to everything

Yes, it's another strange, made up word that sounds like something familiar. For all who can get past it, however, Skifta is getting much buzz at the Mobile World Congress happening in Barcelona this week. Others may have seen it at CES 2011 just recently. Skifta doesn't have anything to do with...

New Apps to Upload Videos to Your TV

With the rapid rise in tablet and smartphone adoption, a number of apps and tech tools have emerged that allow users to stream videos from their mobile devices back to the TV. They include Airplay, Skifta, Eyecon, Rovi and Snapstick. For the rundown on how to stream your smartphone videos on your...

Skifta – A global remote control

We went to see something called Skifta today. It's available right now in the Android Market and is "a global remote control for your media". You can access media on your phone, from the cloud and from media at your home. We spoke to Gary Brotman who told us that they're the first ever software...

Skifta at Mobile World Congress

MWC 2011: Skifta Streams Content to Your Phone and Back to Other Devices

Skifta was one of the few things in Barcelona and at MWC that left us with our mouth open in astonishment. This is an Android app that's shown in action below and we'll have to mention its most amazing feature straight from the start, using an example, illustrated below...

Qualcomm's DLNA Skifta app lands in beta form

The Qualcomm developed Skifta app for Android has become the first application to be certified by the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) under its new Software Certification program...

Skifta Android app nabs DLNA certification: tablets and smartphones now streaming to STBs and more

Using your Android phone as a remote is hardly new, but using it to actually send content to a TV-connected set-top box? Now that's a novel concept. Skifta for Android has just become the first piece of software to be certified by the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) under its new Software...

Apple iPad vs. RIM Playbook vs. Motorola Xoom vs. Dell Streak 7

The iPad finally has some competition. After dominating the tablet market since its inception, the iPad's one-year anniversary will bring major competition, including RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook, Motorola's Xoom, and Dell's Streak 7. We lined them all up to see whether any of them will ultimately...

Skifta DLNA Media Shifting 'Play To' Solution Launched on Android

Skifta, a DLNA-based project that was originally designed for NAS products (see: NETGEAR ReadyNAS), has just launched a new Android app that enables one to access photo, music, playlists, and video files from local or remote DLNA certified NAS servers or PC's with Skifta's desktop software, as...

Skifta comparte a través de DLNA todos nuestros archivos multimedia con otros dispositivos de casa

Skifta es una aplicación para Android desarrollada por Qualcomm que nos permite compartir nuestros archivos multimedia para ser reproducidos en cualquier dispositivos de casa como el televisor, equipo de música, PC o PS3 y viceversa. Está disponible en el Android Market para que la podamos probar...

New Skifta software app now available for Android to DLNA Devices

Newlaunches.com: The coveted Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) has managed to stay in the forefront of streaming standards that people have grown to rely upon and trust. While right up until now, everything that was certified has been hardware. Now, Skifta for Android has become the first...

Skifta App For Android Streams Media To DLNA Devices

The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) has proven to be very instrumental in the future of streaming. The DLNA label has become one that's coveted, and it has become somewhat of a streaming standard that people have grown to rely upon and trust. Sony's PS3 is capable of streaming from all...

Skifta certified by the DLNA

Qualcomm media shifting service will work on DLNA enabled TVs, stereos, Windows 7 PCs, game consoles and more via an Android app.

Skifta DLNA-Certified: Free, easy streaming with an android remote

Skifta has been bubbling away in Qualcomm's labs since 2009, and the company's Android app is the first to be DLNA certified under the Digital Living Network Alliance's new software certification program. Skifta promises to funnel content easily from a phone, NAS or cloud-store, via your Android 2.2+...

Though it's still in Beta, Skifta is quickly carving out it's place on the 'must have' applications...

Our smartphones are very rarely 'just phones' for making phone calls these days. More and more, we are using our smartphones as one of our primary means to access and share our media. One of the biggest constraints, as a consumer, is having to take your music, photo or video collection and figure out...

Skifta Streams Media to Your Phone or TV From Anywhere, Is Like…

Windows/Mac/Linux and Android: If you've been longing to stream your home media to your Android phone on-the-go, Skifta will do that and more. Not only will it stream to your phone, but will also stream to your friend's TV or stereo.

Skifta Allows You To Stream Your Media Anywhere [video]

The new Skifta application allows you to take your personal media with you and stream it practically anywhere, whether you want to share video, photos or your music.

Skifta Android Download app beta. Stream Media between Android and any other Device

Skifta Android app is an uncomplicated way to control, play and appreciate your music, videos and photos at house and on the move between fairly a lot any Devices using with DLNA/UPnP. Skifta combines media shifting and lets you play your digital music, photos and videos on connected devices anywhere...

Stream music, photos and videos from your phone with Skifta

With Skifta you can stream music, photos and videos from your phone, the cloud, or remotely from home, to DLNA-compliant TV, stereo systems, PS3 game consoles or other connected devices in the home. Skifta makes it easy to take your media with you to enjoy on connected consumer electronics devices and...

Skifta

An easy way to control, play and enjoy your music, videos and photos at home and on the move. There's no uploading to the web or syncing to your phone. In fact, you don't copy or move your media at all

Skifta App Gives Access to Media Anywhere

Skifta, a service that gives smartphone users the ability to control and play their music, photos and videos from anywhere without syncing or side loading media to the phone, recently debuted at the 2011 International CES in Las Vegas.

CES may trigger chronic smartphone envy

You may absolutely love that sleek and shiny smartphone in your pocket, but a visit to this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas would lead you to the inevitable conclusion that it's about to get old very quickly.

Skifta promises easy DLNA media-shifting [video]

One of Qualcomm's more low-key demonstrations from today is actually the one thing you can try most readily yourself. Skifta aims to make media shifting more straightforward, using a single client PC or Mac that can then be accessed by any DLNA and UPnP client in your home or remotely. The system...

Skifta Allows You To Stream Your Media Anywhere

The new Skifta application allows you to take your personal media with you and stream it practically anywhere, whether you want to share video, photos or your music.

Skifta launches Skifta DLNA media streaming app for Android

Skifta has launched a new DLNA-based media streaming app for Android mobile devices running Android 2.2. Skifta, owned by mobile chip fabricator Qualcomm, takes a relatively simple approach to enabling content streaming from a user's mobile. Users download the mobile version of the app to their...

Qualcomm Services Labs Debuts Skifta Phone Service

Qualcomm Services Labs, a subsidiary of Qualcomm (News - Alert) Inc., and a developer of services and applications that tap into the advantages of mobile technology, launched its Skifta service at the International CES 2011.

Elgan: Your TV remote is obsolete

It seems like everything's got its own remote these days. My TV has two. No, make it three: The new Apple TV I got for Christmas came with one. My heater has one. The lights in my bedroom have a remote control dimmer and on/off switch. My digital camera has a very small remote, but I can't find...

Skifta Soft Launch: Stream Your Media to DLNA Devices

Now that we own digital content in a lot of different places, several companies are working on the problem of making it accessible everywhere. Skifta, owned by Qualcomm, is one such player with a new Android app, and an affinity for DLNA. The Skifta set-up is reasonably simple. Download the app...

Skifta: Bringing Media Streaming to the Masses!

Check it out! Skifta, a new app designed to stream your media content to your DLNA TV, Computer, Ps3, et al is rocking the Android scene as we speak. The app is still in beta, but still does a great job streaming your media from your phone to the beyond. Being as it is a beta, it will only get...

Skifta: DLNA Support For FroYo and Above

Here's something that I've been waiting for since I got into DLNA, and I know that this isn't the first solution out there. A client/server for my beloved Android. This is still in its infancy, but it's definitely a window to what is to come.

Qualcomm Debuts Skifta Media Shifting Service For The Connected...

Qualcomm debuts Shifta, a media shifting service at CES 2011, one of the technologies we highlight would be debuting there. The Skifta service gives users the ability to control and play their music, photos and videos on connected devices at home, at a friend's house, at work or on any WiFi...

All Your Entertainment from Any Device via Skifta

Qualcomm is debuting a WiFi entertainment software for smartphones that gives users the ability to play their music, photos and videos on connected devices on any wi-fi network without syncing or sideloading media to the phone.

Qualcomm Spin-Off Skifta Connects Music Apps to Home Electronics...

Apple AirPlay already connects music apps to speakers and sound systems wirelessly, creating a big opportunity for the music industry and music fans alike to make today's music sound better. But to do so, in classic Apple fashion, Steve Jobs and company have taken a problem for which...

Skifta App For Wireless Connection

The main principle of modern connectivity is "being wireless". People are tired of having miles of cables under their tables so when you accidently stand up everything on your working table goes down because you've got into a cable trap. Well, this uncomfortable situation is changing step...

Skifta launches DLNA media streaming app for Android [video]

Sharing media wirelessly is the future, even our precious HDMI cables will b obsolete one day. Skifta is helping us Android users stay ahead of the curve with their newly launched DLNA app. This app is available for Android2.2 an up devices. Streaming media using this service is pretty...

VIDEO: Skifta offers media sharing app

A small startup from Poole has created an app that aims to make it easier to share your digital media collection between your various gadgets. It's called Skifta, and allows you to shift content between a number of devices with just one catch - they have to be DLNA enabled.