News and Events - December 2003

Fri 19th Dec, 2003

Christmas card

Forbidden Technologies would like to wish all our visitors a pleasant and enjoyable Christmas.

Thu 18th Dec, 2003

FORlive update

Forbidden's public live video streaming demonstration has run continuously round the clock for over four weeks, confirming its stability. Today we stopped the system briefly to install an upgrade. Broadband and modem frame rates are up by 10-20% and the new midband option often achieves full frame rate. We have reduced the Java player memory by 40MB. Picture quality improvements are most evident during the day time, when our £99 security camera works best.

Wed 17th Dec, 2003

Mobile birthday video

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of manned flight, SiteSeer have compressed their video of Concorde's final flight for mobile delivery.

Mon 15th Dec, 2003

SiteSeer video

Another SiteSeer customer has added video to their website. Click on the Colorado destination to watch the video. SiteSeer specialise in the Lifestyle sector; you can see their public demos here.

Fri 12th Dec, 2003

Staff update

We would like to thank Richard, who finishes today, for his work over the last four years. Richard has worked on our technology, especially the Java player, and more recently also on product development. We wish him luck on his forthcoming mountaineering expedition.

Thu 11th Dec, 2003

New aeo video

Following the success of the World Travel Market, where Forbidden showed off our Live video streaming solution, the Association of Exhibition Organisers are promoting the use of video on their home page. They also have another example video in Forbidden's format.

Tue 9th Dec, 2003

Mobile player available

Forbidden's Symbian mobile player is available for testing. We have provided three ways to download the player. The simplest method involves a payment to us through a mobile micropayment billing system.

Wed 3th Dec, 2003

Website anniversary

Today is the first anniversary of our latest website design. We are pleased to say that the number of hits has more than tripled compared with a year earlier. Over the last year we have transformed our product range, with the introduction of broadband options, numerous features on our Java player, Symbian mobile phone players, Linux compressor systems and FORlive. We will be bringing the website up to date in the coming weeks to reflect the latest advances in our product range.

Mon 1st Dec, 2003

Recent press

The Association of Exhibition Organisers has an article about Forbidden Technologies in this month's magazine. The aeo says "... the creative use of video can reap fantastic rewards and create instant impact ... The aeo will be using [Forbidden's] video streaming technology to send members video emails of key events".