News and Events - September 2002

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.