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Wed 30th Apr, 2003
CEO interview
Cantos
have interviewed Forbidden's CEO, Stephen Streater. The interview
covers the preliminary results. As part of yesterday's
agreement,
Forbidden's technology will be available on Cantos for this type of content.
Tue 29th Apr, 2003
Full year results
Today Forbidden Technologies plc announced its
Full Year Results for the year ended 31st December 2002.
Tue 29th Apr, 2003
Agreement with Cantos
Forbidden announces an
agreement
with Cantos.
Thu 24th Apr, 2003
Internet advertising expands
The Guardian
quotes a recent report: "The amount spent by advertisers on the web [in the UK] has grown by 19% year on year to
£196.7m in 2002 ... Despite the increase, the internet still only takes 1.4% of the total amount spent on
advertising every year".
CyberAtlas
notes that the Internet advertising market as a whole has had
"the first consecutive quarterly increase since the second quarter of 2000". The
FT
highlighted a report showing online advertising was last year "the fastest growing advertising medium",
outstripping cinema for the first time.
Europemedia.net
completes the picture with: "the bulk of online advertising is made up of banner ads".
Tue 22nd Apr, 2003
Travel Media Solutions
Travel Media Solutions have launched their new
website
using Forbidden's video compression technology.
Travel Media Solutions is a subsidiary of Travel Television.
Tue 15th Apr, 2003
Preliminary results announcement date
Forbidden Technologies plc will be announcing preliminary results for the year to 31st
December 2002 on Tuesday 29th April 2003. The analysts presentation will be at 11.00am at
College Hill's offices, 78 Cannon Street, London, EC4N 6HH.
Fri 11th Apr, 2003
Datarate sensing
Forbidden Technologies has added datarate sensing to its Java video player. Now web pages can
automatically use the available internet connection speed, as demonstrated
here.
Thu 10th Apr, 2003
New film demo
Morogo Films have kindly given us
permission to add their film clip "Growing Up in Cities" to our site.
Tue 8th Apr, 2003
EU TV viewing figures
The FT
quotes recent research on television viewing: "the UK and Ireland form one group ... with
very heavy TV viewing - an average of 198 minutes per day".
Mon 7th Apr, 2003
GPRS growth
"The data shows an encouraging increase in the number of GPRS users with 47% growth in Q4 2002", proclaims
3G, who also have a graph
showing recent GPRS Subscriber Takeup.
Thu 3rd Apr, 2003
User Interface considerations
Charles Arthur of the
Independent
has been trying out a 3G phone: "These phones have a depth of
functionality that is overwhelming ... Using that sort of power effectively ... calls for not just world-class but
solar-system-class, galaxy-class user interface design. Sadly, you don't get it".
Wed 2nd Apr, 2003
Java update
Computer Weekly
writes: "[Vodafone and Orange] have invested in a US software startup
developing an operating system based on Java technology. Orange and Vodafone ... have invested $17.5m in
SavaJe Technologies in a drive 'for open standards and greater choice', said Vodafone".
News.com
informs us Sun's executive vice president for software as saying "100 million phones have shipped with
Java so far. Programmers inevitably will follow that popularity".
Tue 1st Apr, 2003
Recent press
Andy Heselwood, head of BT Broadcast mobile services said in
newmediazero: "In the last
nine months we realised we didn't need 3G for video". Yinka Adegoke continues: "[BT] Broadcast
Services this week announced the third codec to form part of its offering, via a partnership with
Forbidden Technologies". [Update] netimperative
states: "[Forbidden's] compression and playback technology is now market ready. The market may also be ready for Forbidden's services ...".
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