Debt engulfing NTL
In its editorial, the Sunday Business reports “The view in government circles is that BT has dragged its feet on fast internet access … alternative suppliers of broadband services – the cable companies NTL and Telewest…
Read MoreBroadband in the US
“About 10m American homes will have high-speed Internet access by the end of this year”, says Richard Waters in the FT. Bob Crandall, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in the US reports “But a…
Read MoreChristmas Offer update
Password protection is proving to be the most popular feature of our Christmas Offer. You can specify a username and password that you would like to use for access when you send your tape in and…
Read More"Father of the Internet" predicts a bright future for his offspring
In an interview with FT-IT, Vint Cerf estimates that “by 2010 half the world’s population will have access to the Internet”. Forbidden Technologies allows distribution of video to this rapidly growing community.
Read MoreThe trials and tribulations of broadband
Broadband is failing to connect consumers across much of Europe, says Dan Roberts in the FT. Even in the US, where initial penetration has been greater, the failure of companies such as Excite@Home has brought problems….
Read MoreDMCA upheld
The FT reports that “A US federal appeals court has delivered a big victory to copyright holders who want to use technology to protect films, music, and other copyrighted material from digital piracy.” By giving such…
Read MoreGPRS mobile technology released
TTP Communications has announced that its licensee, Novatel Wireless, is about to start shipping PC modem cards to allow laptops and PDAs to connect directly to the GPRS network. This is good news for companies like…
Read MoreForbidden's first patent application
The official search report has now been issued on our PCT patent application by the International Searching Authority at the European Patent Office. All the cited publications are in the category of background, which is an…
Read MoreAlways on more important than bandwidth
“ADSL deployment has been woefully slow. Only 100,000 customers have the technology today” says the FT, adding that Telewest has 70,000 broadband users and NTL “has signed up its 100,000th” although many of these only have…
Read MoreGrowth Company Investor report
AIM stocks have been slower to recover than those on the main market, but “leading the way was Forbidden Technologies”, says Growth Company Investor. Forbidden also has a double page research report in the November edition…
Read MoreSo psyched to part of the A+E Networks deployment of Blackbird.
Kevin Tobin - Senior Director of Production, A+E Networks