News and Events - August 2002
Wed 28th Aug, 2002
02 development platform
RCR wireless news reports "Using Pinpoint's Fuel platform ... Subscribers will pay for applications on their O2 bills, and the carrier will then share the resulting revenues with the application developers." They note "DoCoMo attributes much of the success of i-mode service to the vast store of available content, driven in large part by the carrier's revenue-sharing relationship with wireless application developers."
Wed 21st Aug, 2002
Market section
To complement the explanation of video compression on our website, we have added a section summarising the features of the market for our products and services.
Tue 13th Aug, 2002
Forbidden Technologies recruiting
Forbidden Technologies would like to welcome the latest addition to our software development team, who started this week. We are also appointing an additional person, to start September, to help run our video compression service.
Fri 9th Aug, 2002
Epsom Go Tournament
Forbidden Technologies is sponsoring the first Epsom Go Tournament, which is being held this Saturday, 10th August. [Update] A report of the event is available here.
Tue 6th Aug, 2002
Buttons
Forbidden Technologies has extended the feature list for its video player to include controls: buttons for stop, pause/resume and restart. These appear when the mouse is moved over the video. This upgrade is mentioned in a recent review of video streaming technologies.

