News and Events - April 2003

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 ...".