News and Events - December 2004

Fri 24th Dec, 2004

Christmas

Forbidden Technologies wishes you happiness over Christmas and the New Year. We have made a short video for you to enjoy.

Thu 23th Dec, 2004

European ruling

The European Court of First Instance, the second highest court in the EU, has upheld the European Commission's decision on Microsoft's punishment. Microsoft, which has been illegally bundling their media player with their monopoly operating system, has now given a timetable for releasing a version of Windows which does not contain their media player. Forbidden's customers don't need the Microsoft media player to use our web or mobile products. Our unique and exceptional video editing and web/mobile publishing tool, FORscene, runs in Java from a web browser.

Tue 21st Dec, 2004

Recent Press

Precision Marketing looks at mobile: "The rapid proliferation of mobile handsets with multimedia capability means viral marketing services via your phone could be a reality as early as next year". Quoting Forbidden's Liz Mackenzie, they say: "The USP [Forbidden has] is that we offer a branded video player that people can share". They like Forbidden's "Viewtoothing" technology for sharing mobile videos over Bluetooth: "The potential for consumer goods brands ... is obvious."

Fri 17th Dec, 2004

Recent press

The Wimbledon Guardian article headlined "Life is sweet for winners" talks about Forbidden's award for "Best Use of Technology". The article quotes CEO Stephen Streater talking about FORscene, mentions our video streaming products for the web and mobile phones, and has the link to our live video of Wimbledon.

Wed 15th Dec, 2004

FORscene upgrade

FORscene tooltips have been refined to reflect automatically users' level of expertise. This helps to make learning the FORscene system a delight.

Fri 10th Dec, 2004

Award

Forbidden Technologies has won the Local Business Award for "Innovative Use of Technology". CEO Stephen Streater was presented with a designer trophy at the awards ceremony last night.

Tue 7th Dec, 2004

Google update

Forbidden's Google ads have now had over 40,000,000 impressions and 400,000 click throughs. Click through rates are steadily rising in all areas, particularly FORweb, FORmobile and FORscene.

Thu 2nd Dec, 2004

AEO

The Association of Exhibition Organisers has published a new video informing clients on how to run a successful exhibition.

Wed 1st Dec, 2004

FORweb option

A big picture option has been added to FORweb so videos can be played at a multiple of the normal size. In this Ecocats example, from a compressed MPEG source, you can see the effect of boat speed on wash size.