(RealNetworks, Inc., Seattle, WA, www.realnetworks.com) The company behind the RealMedia and the RealPlayer technologies. Originally Progressive Networks, product names have a Real prefix (RealPlayer, RealOne, RealArcade, RealAudio, etc.). See RealMedia.
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- Yahoo's dwindling search share: Time to panic?
- Typical MicrosoftThis is normal business practice for MS. Partner up with someone, take what they need, then discard them.Ask anyone from RealNetworks how their partnership went.It's about search.Wow, it looks like the volume of search users use the search engine that delivers better results.Google search is better than Bing...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- News to know: Scareware; HP; SAP; Cloud computing
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: The ultimate guide to scareware protection Gallery: The ultimate guide to scareware protection 9/11...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- RealNetworks: It can get worse
- It couldn't happen to a more deserving company. ntntReal is paying a price for not open sourcing its codeTrying to be like M$ harmed Real.They must GPL their code immediately, in order to survive.Real should also shoud push for M$ removing media player from windoze, and embrace Linux as the...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- RealNetworks: It can get worse
- RealNetworks' business is struggling and it can get worse. That message was delivered by a J.P. Morgan analyst who pooh-poohed any initial euphoria over the fact that RealNetworks' Rhapsody app is now on the iPhone. by Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Apple approves Rhapsody music streaming app; 8 million songs
- RealNetworks' Rhapsody music streaming service now has an app in Apple's App Store. The free app, which requires a $15 per month Rhapsody subscription you can try it free for one week, streams 64kbps music over Wi-Fi or cellular data. (IPod touch users...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- RealNetworks submits Rhapsody app to Apple
- subscription music services"Subscription music services make a lot of sense, but consumers generally prefer to download their tunes."This has perplexed me for some time -- particularly for the first few years of the iTunes store, where fidelity of available DLs was severely limited by the 128 kbps AAC-only policy.During the...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- RealNetworks submits Rhapsody app to Apple
- RealNetworks said Monday that it has submitted a Rhapsody app to for Apple approval. The move would bring a subscription music service to the iPhone and iPod touch. In a blog post, RealNetworks said that it will submit the Rhapsody on-demand streaming music service for App Store...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Courts put DVD ripping on shaky ground
- this is only on the broken USA copyright and court system.not every one lives in the united states of america...Was it ever really about combatting piracy?"It?s amazing how the focus has shifted from combating piracy to taking as much money as possible off customers."Considering how much they've been using DRM,...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
- Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood business model
- RE: Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood Just shows you who the government actually works for.So what's new? [NT].broken systemWe have a broken judicial system that repeatedly favors the rich and the powerful at the expense of the citizens.Judge acknowledges system is brokenNo mavericks in the court,....
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood business model
- I have to admit that I am blown away by a judge's decision to grant a preliminary injunction on sales of RealDVD, RealNetworks' controversial software that allows consumers to rip DVD movies into a computer much the same way that CDs can be ripped. Even though I...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- A look at On2 Technologies and why Google wants it
- It's not very often that Google makes an acquisition and the target inspires a collective "who?" But that's what happened when the search giant bought On2 Technologies, a penny stock trading in obscurity on the American Stock Exchange, for 60 cents a share. And unless you've followed the wonderful world...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- With Microsoft search deal Yahoo risks becoming AOL
- With Microsoft search deal Yahoo risks becoming AOLAOL's decline not due to outsourcing search...I understand the comparison, but AOL's decline was not due to outsourcing search to Google. It declined because it was too slow in migrating to broadband and because it kept charging for too long what other properties...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- iOrgSoft RM Converter 3.3.8 (Windows)
- RM is short for RealMedia, which is a multimedia container format created by RealNetworks. Generally speaking, RM only can be played by RealPlayer. If you got some .rm files and can't play them on your Window Media Player, isn't it annoying? RM Video Converter brings you an easy to convert...
- Software downloads 2009-06-30
- Five big issues with ARM and Android netbooks
- The tech industry is always looking for the next big thing: Bing is gaining on Google, the Palm Pre will dethrone the iPhone, and so on. One of the latest "next big things" is the duo of ARM and Android which, if you buy the hype, will wrest the PC...
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Real files antitrust countersuit against Hollywood's "illegal cartel"
- Real files antitrust countersuit against Hollywood's "illegal cartel"AmazingAs much a I loathe virtually every application coded by RealNetworks, this has got to be the one case where I'm actually completely behind them. We need the slippery slope to start sliding in the favor of the consumer.Ironically enough, the way I...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Real files antitrust countersuit against Hollywood's "illegal cartel"
- Real Networks has turned the tables on Hollywood movie studios, filing a countersuit in U.S. District Court today that accuses the studios of violating antitrust laws by collaborating to form an "illegal cartel" that's trying to monopolize the DVD market. PDF The countersuit accuses the DVD Copy...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- RealDVD hearing: Don't block the software because of what-ifs
- RealDVD hearing: Don't block the software because of what-ifsMPAA's moot point[i]The Motion Picture Association of America alleges that RealNetworks - which makes the software - is trying to circumvent copyright protection technology on DVDs, using [b]its own protections that would impose limitations and restrictions but could be altered or removed...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- RealDVD hearing: Don't block the software because of what-ifs
- If I could be be punished for the things I could do - instead of what I actually do - I would been behind bars years ago. Hollywood movies studios are trying to punish RealNetworks for something that its software could do, not what it actually does,...
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- More Microsoft competitors join European browser-bundling antitrust case
- On April 15, the European Commission EC granted a request by the European Committee for Interoperable Systems ECIS to become an interested third-party in the current browser-bundling case involving Microsoft. ECIS is an association whose members include a number of Microsoft rivals, including Adobe, Corel, IBM, Nokia, Opera, Oracle, RealNetworks...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Google Chrome...bundled with RealPlayer?!
- Google Chrome...bundled with RealPlayer?!Is this a good move?I haven't yet come up with any reason to install Chrome on my system, as we already have a plethora of browser choices, and I tend to classify Google's other software as crapware. I do wonder about aligning with a software company...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-05
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