News and notes from Mobile Applications Showcase

20.02.2010

wants to help you keep an eye on things, even when your eyes are elsewhere.

The company's iPhone app, , lets you use your iPhone or iPod to watch video streaming live from a Webcam that's connected to a Mac or PC. You fire up the $2 app to get a live look-in at your home, business, or anything else you need to view.

Peekeez app becomes even more valuable when you sign up for the company's monthly service. For $8 a month, Peekeez securely records all your video, keeping it for 14 days so that you can review video from anywhere. Certainly, there's security benefits to that capability, but Peekeez's Ben Holz tells me that business also use the video to review operations--make sure that a store opens on time, see how long lines are at different times of the day, and measure customer flow, to cite a few examples.

Peekeez uses HTTP Live Streaming and H.264 for its video streams, and the results are pretty impressive. The video Holz showed me last week--streaming live from a coffee shop in Maui--was very clear on the iPhone's screaming with very little delay.