News and Events - July 2004
Fri 30th Jul, 2004
Case study
This month's Business Communicator has a comprehensive two page case study of the way Misys is using Forbidden's FORpresentation. "The company appointed consultants Forbidden to work with them to create the CEO presentation ... They used combined video - a richer medium than video on its own, with a combination of video, voiceover slides, other images and other films spliced together to make a 20-30 minute production".
Thu 29th Jul, 2004
Recent press
Online Recruitment Magazine highlighted: "* Internal Importance. Internal communications is a dedicated function in seven out of ten corporates, and over eighty percent of directors state internal and external communications are of equal importance". PersonnelToday.com quotes Graham Opie, research director at Vanson Bourne: "Despite the best efforts of HR and comms departmental heads, the research shows that effective internal communication across a disparate network of global offices remains a huge challenge". Luckily, Forbidden's FORpresentation tool is available to enable simple and effective corporate communications.
Wed 28th Jul, 2004
Recent press
The independent research commissioned by Forbidden is continuing to cause a stir. "... while 64% of the heads of internal communications surveyed see value in new visual media, less than one in ten has tried the technology", reports NMA this week.
Tue 27th Jul, 2004
Recent press
Save the Children's use of FORweb has attracted further interest. "Save the Children has launched its first video-streaming email campaign to highlight the global devastation caused by the HIV/Aids virus..." says Marketing Direct. "The 30-second video-clip is the first time video-streaming has been used by the charity as the primary launch vehicle for a campaign."
Mon 26th Jul, 2004
Recent press
HR Gateway reports on the latest research on corporate communications: "Despite internal comms being a dedicated function in 70% of the firms questioned, over six in ten respondents said that even given the emphasis they were still very bad at communicating with employees". Forbidden Technologies commissioned the research by the independent research company Vanson Bourne to look into areas where FORpresentation has been successful at attracting customers.
Fri 23th Jul, 2004
Letter
This week's New Media Age has a letter from Forbidden's Business Development Director, Greg Hirst. Marks & Spencer made their shareholders go to the Royal Festival Hall in London to hear Stuart Rose talking about Philip Green's recent takeover proposals. As Greg points out: "Instead of making the trip, shareholders could have turned on their PCs and watched the action live from the comfort of their homes or offices via video streaming". Forbidden's recent AGM was streamed live in this way, using FORlive.
Thu 22nd Jul, 2004
Recent press
Netimperative has picked up on the research report commissioned by Forbidden Technologies into issues affecting the corporate communications market. Commenting on the report's conclusions, Netimperative says: "Many UK firms have been slow to adopt new communication technology - such as video streaming - causing a communications crisis within UK-based global organisations".
Wed 21st Jul, 2004
EDL export
Forbidden's editing and publishing tool, FORscene, has been upgraded to export standard format Edit Decision Lists (EDLs). Videos edited in FORscene could already be published on the web and on mobile phones; with this latest upgrade, videos can now be exported to high end editing systems for output at broadcast quality.
Tue 20th Jul, 2004
Summer student
Forbidden Technologies would like to welcome Ben, who is helping in our research department this summer.
Fri 16th Jul, 2004
FORmobile Java player
You can now watch Forbidden videos on Java mobile phones. There are already 120,000,000 Java enabled phones in use. FORmobile uses the MIDP-1.0 Java standard. Simply download the videos like any other Java program. On Nokia phones, the Nokia MIDP-1 extensions are used automatically to improve performance.
Thu 15th Jul, 2004
Timecode
Professional users will be pleased to hear that videos edited in FORscene can now use the time code on the original source tapes. This makes FORscene compatible with currently installed editing equipment.
Wed 14th Jul, 2004
IBC update
FORscene has been generating intense interest amongst professional users. Forbidden will be addressing this market directly at IBC this September with the launch of the high end version of FORscene at the show.
Mon 12th Jul, 2004
FORscene NTSC
Forbidden's collaborative video editing and publishing tool, FORscene, has been upgraded to support NTSC. The software automatically detects whether the video is in PAL or NTSC and works accordingly. Our customers in the USA and Japan can now edit video in their native format.
Fri 9th Jul, 2004
IPEX
IPEX, a global technology event for print, publishing and media, are using FORweb to promote this exhibition.
Thu 8th Jul, 2004
FORlive upgrade
We have upgraded FORlive. The new version has more subtle colour tones and improved picture quality when used with high quality cameras or a live television feed.
Wed 7th Jul, 2004
Chairman's shareholding
Forbidden's announced this morning that our Chairman has exercised an option over 125,000 Forbidden shares.
Tue 6th Jul, 2004
Recent press
The AIM Bulletin has an analysis of Forbidden Technologies: "Forbidden Technologies has created more investor excitement than almost any other AIM company... It is still too early to be totally positive about the shares, but they are starting to look more attractive because of the potential market for the software".
Mon 5th Jul, 2004
Website hits
The number of hits on Forbidden's website continues to rise. Hits are currently running at well over 1,000,000 per month.
Fri 2nd Jul, 2004
Forbidden dinner
Forbidden's latest dinner has been an opportunity to bring our strategic partners up to date with developments and to discuss Forbidden's long term product development and marketing plans.
Thu 1st Jul, 2004
Resizable pictures
In response to requests from professional subscribers to the alpha test, FORscene now has resizable pictures. The new large picture size is available to all FORscene users. If you are a professional who would like to influence the development of this remarkable video editing and publishing tool, you too can join the alpha test programme.
