News and Events - December 2005

Tue 20th Dec, 2005

Web 2.0

The web is being upgraded to Web 2.0. Forbidden's award winning FORscene is Web 2.0 compliant in many ways. For example: FORscene is a service rather than packaged software; it is software above the level of a single device; Forbidden trusts users with many design ideas; and the design and implementation uses lightweight user interfaces and development models. In fact, by running as a Java Applet in a web browser, FORscene is more advanced than many Web 2.0 applications.

Fri 16th Dec, 2005

Recent press

Broadcast has included FORscene in its end-of-year round-up: "Soho post house Nats has also put itself in a position to offer clients an internet review and logging editing tool, developed by Forbidden Technologies. FORscene has been trialled by Granada in September to log and perform rough cuts for its 10-part documentary series Trust Me I'm a Holiday Rep.

Tue 13th Dec, 2005

Mac FORupload

As FORupload on the Mac matures, we are adding some more powerful features to the beta version. Paul is back to help implement these.

Mon 12th Dec, 2005

New recruit

We would like to welcome Rongrong, Forbidden Technologies' latest recruit. Rongrong is specialising in the area of pre-sales and customer support.

Fri 9th Dec, 2005

RTS Award

Forbidden's FORscene has won the Royal Television Society Award for Technology in the Post-Production Process. You can see what they said about FORscene on this video, which was shot on a mass produced mobile phone, and edited and published using FORscene.

Thu 8th Dec, 2005

N90

FORscene and FORmobile now support the Nokia N90. For the first time, you can record CIF resolution video (approximately VHS), with high quality audio, on your mobile phone, and then upload it over the air for editing and publishing with FORscene. The N90 is not officially available in the UK yet, but Nokia have a huge sales target for next year. The Carl Zeiss Optics can only help.

Wed 7th Dec, 2005

FORlive upgrade

The latest FORlive takes 10% less CPU time. FORlive can also used for web publishing from FORscene, giving a fast web publishing facility.

Mon 5th Dec, 2005

FORscene upgrade

The latest FORscene is 10% faster. As FORscene uses the best web-based technology, this upgrade is there automatically.