The World's Online Populations
CyberAtlas gives their estimate of the world online internet population in 2002 by country. The total for 2002 is probably between 580 million and 655 million. Their sources include the CIA’s World Factbook, Nielsen//NetRatings and the…
Read MoreDSL growing
CyberAtlas notes “Global DSL subscriptions nearly doubled during 2002, from 18.8 million to 35.9 million …”. China is growing fastest with second half growth of 214%.
Read MoreEU review says Microsoft breached rules
“European regulators have moved a step closer towards taking action against Microsoft, after an internal review concluded that the US software group had breached competition law” according to the Financial Times. The article also mentions that…
Read MoreMobile phone sales up 6 percent
Gartner Dataquest has published figures for mobile phone sales in 2002. The Register reports: “Global mobile phone sales rose some 6 percent last year to 423.4 million units … “. Reuters quotes from the same source…
Read More3G launched in UK
The Guardian reports “Launching today, 3’s new mobile phone service is overpriced and only marginally better than that offered by Vodaphone (sic) Live!’s 2.5G”. In this Reuters article Keith Bradley of 3 UK said “…now we…
Read MorePogo announces nVoy
Pogo, the UK mobile device designer, has recently announced their next consumer design. “Our vision at Pogo is to create a communicator so useful and easy to use that it becomes an essential part of your…
Read MoreSamsung takes Symbian stake
The Financial Times today reports “Microsoft’s wireless ambitions suffered a stinging blow yesterday when the only big manufacturer to have licensed its operating software threw in its lot with a rival”.
Read MoreMobile to support Linux and Java
The Financial Times has reported that Motorola “plans to launch the first handset built around Java technology and Linux software.” Mike Bordelon, corporate vice-president in Motorola’s handset division said, “We see Java applications taking off”. Forbidden…
Read MoreRich media advertising's rise
A DoubleClick report on last year’s internet advertising states that ads were “bigger and more likely to include rich media.” In fact, “Rich media led the way” with view-through rates that “rose 47 percent”. Forbidden’s video…
Read MoreVideo Compression Service update
Forbidden Technologies would like to welcome Rosie, our latest recruit. She will be working with us for a few months before going to Cambridge, and will increase the capacity of our video compression service.
Read MoreSo psyched to part of the A+E Networks deployment of Blackbird.
Kevin Tobin - Senior Director of Production, A+E Networks