Stories about: Real Networks

The European Union's 899-million-euro antitrust fine is the result of a continuous effort by the European Commission dating back to 2000. Carlo Piana, a partner at the Milan law firm Studio Legale Tamos Piana & Partners, represented the Free Software Foundation Europe and the Samba project in the case.

A recent string of high-profile ActiveX vulnerabilities caused the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to advise users to disable the ubiquitous Microsoft browser plug-in technology altogether. The vectors for these recent exploits include a third-party image uploading tool used on both the Facebook and MySpace social networking sites, and flaws found in Yahoo's Music Jukebox, Real Networks' RealPlayer, and Apple's QuickTime.

A consumer advocacy group is blasting RealNetworks for installing adware and other software without properly notifying its users.

Or maybe, like the late great Evel Knievel, it tried to jump the Snake River Canyon but suffered an equipment failure halfway over. Either way, I'm over Facebook.

Microsoft and RealNetworks announced that they have settled their antitrust case and forged a partnership to promote digital music and games in three agreements worth US$761 million, the companies said.

When the space shuttle Discovery was launched into Earth orbit Tuesday morning for a 12-day mission, more than 335,000 simultaneous video streams broadcast the event live to Internet viewers, making it NASA's most-watched online event of the Internet age.

The Telecom Industry Association (TIA) believes it has proved the interoperability of IP PBXs and legacy TDM PBXs. It says users can be sure of interworking via the DPNSS (Digital Private Network Signalling Systems) protocol, meaning that the IP kit can be safely mixed with older gear.

When the Space Shuttle Discovery roars into space on its scheduled 12-day mission -- the first since the shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry in February 2003 -- three companies will be working to provide live, up-to-the-minute flight details via Web sites and video feeds.

The European Union judge deciding whether Microsoft will have to reform its business practices will continue to take into account arguments made by Novell and a prominent technology industry group, despite settlements reached between Microsoft and those two parties earlier this month, a Microsoft spokesman said Thursday.

RealNetworks is melding its RealPlayer and RealJukebox into a new product dubbed RealOne, the company announced Monday.

After being bludgeoned last week amid the double threats of war and recession, U.S. markets began to show signs of life again Monday morning, as bargain hunters swooped in to buy oversold shares and some tech stocks rallied.