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Wed 25th Sep, 2002
Micropayment news
Vodafone UK is reported by vnunet.com as extending its
micropayment service. "To complete a transaction with participating traders, customers enter their
user name and password as opposed to entering their full details as required by credit and debit card
transactions." Jim Wadsworth, head of m-commerce at Vodafone UK said: "It is very new; a market
creation activity. A small number of people are aware but they will grow over time."
Mon 23rd Sep, 2002
Automatic Pre-Load
The latest feature to be added to Forbidden's player is an automatic
pre-load for more difficult content. When used in conjunction with the 'image at start-up'
feature announced last week, the first frame of the video appears very quickly, and the play
button appears when the video is ready to start.
This feature appears automatically when you have a slow link and viewers with a slow link
will be able to see it here.
Fri 20th Sep, 2002
Image at start-up
Forbidden Technologies has added another new feature to its video product range.
Now all videos automatically start with a JPEG of the first video frame which is displayed while
the player downloads.
This allows effective incorporation of video into webpages which currently contain only graphics.
Examples can be seen on our website
here.
Thu 19th Sep, 2002
Interim Results
Today Forbidden Technologies plc announced its
Interim Results
for the six months ended 30th June 2002.
Wed 18th Sep, 2002
Notice of Interim Results
Forbidden Technologies plc will tomorrow announce its Interim Results
for the six months ended 30th June 2002.
Tue 17th Sep, 2002
New recruit
Forbidden Technologies would like to welcome Liz. She is working as a
Sales Manager in Greg Hirst's Business Development team, and completes
our recent recruitment round.
Wed 11th Sep, 2002
3G slowly developing
Following ARM's development of
on chip Java,
Matsushita has
announced
one of the first 3G mobile phones using this technology, to be
launched next year. Ericsson "is
not expecting
a mass market in 3G to develop before 2005", and some analysts
believe the roll-out could be delayed further. Ovum's recent
projection
of 3G growth is "14.3 percent of the world's mobile connections
by 2007". By then, "data transmission [could cost] 80% less
than 2.5G technologies like GPRS".
Tue 10th Sep, 2002
Video Compression Service update
Forbidden Technologies would like to welcome Mia, our latest
recruit. She will be working closely with the Sales and Marketing
team and will increase the capacity of our
video compression service.
In addition, we will soon be appointing a Sales Manager to work in
Greg Hirst's Business Development team.
Fri 6th Sep, 2002
Summer student
We'd like to thank Jeremy, our perennial summer student, for
masterminding
the redeployment and expansion of our IT infrastructure
in preparation for increased throughput of our
video compression service.
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