News and Events - January 2004

Fri 30th Jan, 2004

SMS billing

The Forbidden mobile player has been upgraded to support SMS billing. This means that the video player can add a charge to the consumer's mobile phone bill, for example each time a new video is downloaded.

Mon 19th Jan, 2004

Google update

Our Google advertising campaign has had over 1,000,000 impressions, and the campaign is bringing considerable new traffic to our site for minimal cost. The marketing information we are gleaning from this campaign is helping us to streamline our marketing collateral.

Tue 13th Jan, 2004

Audio player

With the upgrades to Java over the last four years, the majority of web users can now enjoy our latest high quality streaming audio clips: Haydn and Tchaikovsky. These stream easily at modem data rates without the need for a plug-in, and provide an ideal audio only solution.

Fri 9th Jan, 2004

Mobile update

Forbidden has upgraded FORmobile. The latest version supports customer branded icons, splash screens, and intelligent menus to handle multiple video subjects. You can download the player from this page. A video of Concorde's final flight can then be downloaded over the air.

Mon 5th Jan, 2004

SiteSeer FORpresentation

SiteSeer has an example FORpresentation available here. SiteSeer, a Forbidden partner, is promoting Forbidden's FORpresentation format in its target markets.