Vodafone Seals UK Audio-content Deal With RealNetworks
News RealNetworks on Sunday announced an agreement to power audio and video playback on certain handsets offered by British mobile-phone giant Vodafone. The deal allows Vodafone to use RealNetworks' media-playback technology for its Vodafone Live...
[June 30, 2003, 8:03]
Real, Ericsson Team On Mobile Media
News Under the non-exclusive agreement, Ericsson will integrate RealNetworks' technology for audio and video playback into the equipment it sells to mobile phone companies. The combined technologies will support the playback of video and audio files...
[February 19, 2003, 7:26]
AOL Beefs Up Winamp
News AOL Time Warner has released version 3.0 of its Winamp MP3 player, adding video capabilities that bring the program into direct competition with products from Apple, Microsoft and RealNetworks. Should a video-enabled Winamp start to cut into the...
[August 12, 2002, 10:24]
New QuickTime Plays Wireless Video
News Although video-ready wireless networks are still a work in progress in much of the world, multimedia software vendors like Apple, RealNetworks and Microsoft are racing to stake out mobile beachheads for their competing formats.
[December 19, 2003, 12:35]
Digital Music Focuses On Fight Over Keys
News RealNetworks and Microsoft are once again on a collision course as each seeks to convince the music industry that it has the best technology for thwarting the swapping of copyrighted songs. RealNetworks sought to increase its chances last week by...
[June 25, 2001, 12:49]
RealNetworks Unveils Latest Mac Beta
News Until now, Mac users could subscribe to RealNetworks' GoldPass, the precursor to SuperPass with less content, or download the latest version of RealNetworks' playback software. Microsoft, meanwhile, has been aggressively trying to court content...
[October 9, 2002, 12:15]
Real Takes Charge In Subscription Software
News During the past few years, RealNetworks has been shifting away from its original business of developing media-playback software. RealNetworks will host the video and/or audio streams through its Real Broadcast Network service.
[April 10, 2002, 7:31]
Sony Buys Stake In RealNetworks
News RealNetworks has also incorporated Sony's ATRAC3 compression technology into its audio playback software, and it is developing a digital media player for PlayStation2. RealNetworks on Tuesday said it inked a multiyear partnership with Sony...
[May 1, 2002, 8:59]
Microsoft Unveils Windows Media 9
News The software debut also puts the company into fiercer competition with RealNetworks, the forerunner of digital media playback software, which introduced an improved version of its technology earlier this year.
[September 5, 2002, 8:55]
CES: Real Makes A Break For The TV
News Together, TiVo and RealNetworks will be able to offer consumers a central location for organisation and playback of all their favourite media -- by way of their family TV. In TiVo's case, consumers will be able to store music in RealNetworks format...
[January 8, 2002, 9:29]
Ballmer: Give Streaming Media A Chance
News Their press releases are long on rhetoric touting CD and DVD-quality playback, but suspiciously short on any independent, third-party substantiation to verify their claims," RealNetworks representative Erika Schaffer wrote in an email.
[December 13, 2000, 11:10]
Digital Media: Will Microsoft Win Again?
News On the proprietary end, RealNetworks and Microsoft each offer video and audio codecs. But both Apple's and RealNetworks' authoring and serving tools are available for multiple operating systems, such as Linux, Unix and Windows.
[June 25, 2002, 14:48]
Apple Gives MPEG-4 A New Shine
News In contrast, rival RealNetworks says it has about 280 million registered users for its RealOne Player and Real Player. With rival RealNetworks' recent support for MPEG-4 in its latest digital media technology, the push toward standards could help...
[October 16, 2002, 8:10]
Winamp Returns To Simpler Roots
News RealNetworks' software remains widely used by consumers for playback and by the industry as a streaming-media delivery format. Once a dominant online music player, Winamp has faded into the background under AOL, as competitive products from...
[December 16, 2003, 7:35]
Real Unveils More MP3 Products
News RealJukebox, which turns the PC into a consumer-oriented music playback device, has become RealNetworks' fastest product rollout ever, with more than 250,000 downloads in the 48 hours since it was announced on Monday, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser...
[May 6, 1999, 8:05]
Ogg Vorbis Enters The Living Room
News Since then some products have begun to appear, such as players for handheld computers and a pact with RealNetworks to integrate Vorbis into Real's Helix DNA client. Kiss Technology, based in Denmark, will add Vorbis playback to its new DVD players...
[January 14, 2003, 15:24]
Too Little, Too Late From EU?
News Regulators have done extensive investigations, including multiple interviews with many of Microsoft's competitors such as RealNetworks. Most new online music services, barring Apple's and RealNetworks' stores, sell music in Microsoft's format and...
[March 8, 2004, 13:30]
