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Wed 20th Nov, 2002
Midband
Silicon.com reports: "BT has unveiled details of a new product that could make high-speed internet access available to 97 per cent of the UK population." This will support connections up to 128 kilobits per second, mid-way between typical narrowband and broadband connections. Forbidden Technologies are currently completing developments which encompass this type of connection.
Mon 18th Nov, 2002
Player penetration
News.com published an in-depth article earlier this year about estimating the penetration of various media players. For example Media Metrix claims: "Apple's QuickTime reached about 12 percent of the internet population at home, ... RealNetworks led in popularity, reaching 29 percent of the market at home, while Windows Media reached 28 percent." Nielsen/Netratings report combining home and work had 14 percent for QuickTime, 41 percent for RealNetworks and 25 percent for Windows Media. An interesting website shows that 87 percent of users have Java enabled. As Forbidden's technology is Java based, it addresses this much larger installed base.
Wed 13th Nov, 2002
Recent press
Melanie Reynolds reports in Electronics Weekly: "Forbidden, which was spun out of software publisher Eidos, has created a video codec based on Java. This allows video at 25frames/s to be added to web pages without a broadband connection, and to mobile phones and PDAs using GPRS."
Tue 12th Nov, 2002
World Travel Market 2002
The World Travel Market 2002 is taking place this week at ExCel, London. Our Business Development Director Greg Hirst and Sales Manager Liz Mackenzie are attending with Travel Television. They are demonstrating a number of our video compression products designed for the travel market and can be contacted via the office on 020-8879 7245.
Mon 11th Nov, 2002
Setback for Microsoft
Silicon.com reports: "Sendo dumps Microsoft for Symbian and Nokia" continuing: "The company will instead develop smartphones based on Nokia's Series 60, an interface that sits on top of the Symbian operating system..." The full news story is available here.
Wed 6th Nov, 2002
Colour mobile phone codec
Earlier this year we demonstrated video playback for the first time on
Java mobile phones.
Now, with colour Java phones such as the
Nokia 7210 in the
shops, we will make high quality video available to the mobile mass
market. We are now testing our mobile codec, which has an
exceptionally small footprint (up to ten times smaller than MPEG-04
players), installs over the air, streams over GPRS and delivers high
quality, high frame rate video at full screen on mobile phones. Visit
our Mobile videos section to see web
demonstrations of this mobile codec. Please
mail us with your feedback.
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