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RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser took the stand Tuesday in his company's ongoing legal battle against the motion picture industry, arguing that RealNetworks' DVD-copying software is not designed to create a free-for-all of illegal copying.
RealNetworks and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have filed dueling lawsuits against each other over a product that allows people to copy DVDs.
RealNetworks has issued four critical patches for several versions of its RealPlayer running on Windows, Linux and Apple's Mac OS X.
The growing popularity of video on the Web has prompted RealNetworks to launch a beta version of its RealPlayer software that allows users to easily record and download videos to their PCs.
In the wake of Steve Jobs' open letter criticizing digital-rights management (DRM) technology , one of the four major record labels acknowledged that the lack of interoperability between competing music players and online services had become a growing problem for consumers. Meanwhile, the recording industry's trade group urged Apple to license its FairPlay DRM to other companies, while one of the iTunes Store's biggest rivals called the advent of DRM-free online music inevitable.
RealNetworks is hoping to make a stronger push into the portable digital music market with the introduction of Sandisk's Sansa music players that come bundled with RealNetworks Rhapsody music service.
RealNetworks plans to acquire South Korean mobile entertainment provider WiderThan in a cash deal worth around $350 million.
Music service provider, RealNetworks, will open its subscription-based Rhapsody streaming music service to users of the Macintosh and Linux operating systems. The company has expanded the service to these platforms by launching Rhapsody.com, a new Web site that company executives said will offer all users the core of the Rhapsody experience.
RealNetworks has released an update to its Helix Server Unlimited software that adds the capability to stream video and audio content to wireless devices.
RealNetworks and Siemens have extended their global reseller partnership to sell software that combines their media delivery technologies, the companies announced Tuesday at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes.
Broadband provider Comcast has extended its Rhapsody online music service deal with RealNetworks and plans to begin offering its broadband users access RealNetworks' Internet radio service, Rhapsody RadioPlus, by the end of June, the companies announced Wednesday.
In a move likely to step up the digital music dispute between RealNetworks and Apple, Real slashed prices at its online music store on Tuesday, offering songs and albums for a limited time at nearly half of what Apple charges at its iTunes store.
RealNetworks has announced the forthcoming release of RealPlayer 10 for Mac OS X, the latest release of their media player software for Mac users. The software is being released as a public beta version on Wednesday.
It’s been a while since any of the main Web-streaming software tools have been updated, but like the proverbial bus, three have turned up at once. While long-term frontrunner Cleaner sits in development hell, the last month has seen the announcement of updates to Canopus’ ProCoder, Sorenson’s Squeeze Compression Suite, and RealNetworks RealProducer 10.
On the same day it posted a loss of $10.4 million (around £5.7 million) for the first quarter of 2004, RealNetworks also announced its president, Lawrence Jacobson had resigned, effective immediately.
RealNetworks has introduced a beta version of its Real 10 Export Plug-in for Mac OS X. The software enables video editors using Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Xpress Pro and other software to export their work to RealAudio 10 and RealVideo 10 formats. The company expects to offer support for additional applications including Discreet Cleaner this summer.
RealNetworks Chairman and CEO Rob Glaser has urged Apple's CEO Steve Jobs to partner its digital music businesses against rival Microsoft, according to a report published in The New York Times online edition.
With the sting of the European Commission's antitrust ruling against Microsoft still fresh, RealNetworks head Rob Glaser appeared in London on Wednesday endorsing the Commission's decision as more solid than the US settlement, and predicting that it would aid his company's private suit against the software giant.
At the keynote address of its inaugural Real World conference, REALbasic developer Real Software gave a sneak preview of a new, REALbasic-based tool for Web application development.
