AOL's AIM client is compatible with CompuServe, Netscape, IBM's Lotus Notes and Sametime, and RealNetworks.
GameHouse, a division of RealNetworks, develops and distributes games that people love to play and share.
Hatchets buried in rapid succession with its oldest, staunchest rivals: Sun Microsystems, Netscape, RealNetworks.
And that's a product from RealNetworks, a large company that is a leader in its field.
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RealNetworks does not anticipate that the deal will have any material impact on its businesses.
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Most simply want to customize their service for you -- as RealNetworks claims it was doing.
Currently, RealNetworks owns 51% of the music listening service, while Viacom owns the remaining 49%.
RealNetworks and other subscription companies are expected to add a similar portability option in the coming months.
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But he says H5 helped RealNetworks prepare an antitrust suit against Microsoft a couple of years ago.
"RealNetworks is pleased Intel has agreed to acquire our next generation video codec software and team, " said Nielsen.
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Your video messages are compressed using RealNetworks technology, so anyone with RealPlayer 5.0 or later can view them.
Nor would Sony , Yahoo , RealNetworks or Microsoft be keen to let an upstart sit between them and their customers.
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Rhapsody will be on its own after a spin-off from parent company RealNetworks.
Cisco is partnering with RealNetworks to broadcast the nine-and-half-hour concert across the Internet.
Under terms of the sale, RealNetworks retains certain rights to continue to use the patents in current and future products.
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Integrated plug-ins now include RealNetworks RealPlayer 5.0, Macromedia Flash, and Headspace Beatnik for listening to music and other audio files.
Our two highest priorities will be to lock in on a go-forward strategy for RealNetworks, and to get cashflow positive.
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Established players like RealNetworks and Microsoft have more credibility with Internet companies and promise music publishers the same kind of security Dolby offers.
RealNetworks had sued Microsoft two years ago, claiming it forced PC customers to use Windows' Media Player technology over its RealPlayer.
For Apple it was another slap in the face from RealNetworks, whose popular streaming video software has 48% of the market.
"We realized that users want more control over their video experience, " says Matt Spragins, RealNetworks' director of product management for RealPlayer.
The latter model is how subscribers to Rhapsody, a service provided by RealNetworks, an internet media firm, already listen to music.
In November, RealNetworks issued a patch to the program that ensures that no private information can be transmitted, according to the company.
As a recent controversy over RealNetworks' (maker of the popular RealPlayer) surreptitious monitoring of user habits highlighted, privacy is the best policy.
We have a lot to do to bring RealNetworks into the future.
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"Selling these patents to Intel unlocks some of the substantial and unrealized value of RealNetworks assets, " said Thomas Nielsen, RealNetworks President and CEO.
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It's partly for that reason that there are two glaring omissions on the roster of companies participating in the alliance: RealNetworks and Microsoft.
But Microsoft had identified others, including Sun Microsystems's Java technologies, Intel's Native Signal Processing, and multimedia playback software developed by Apple and RealNetworks.
RealNetworks is a great company that has done amazing things in the past and that will do even more amazing things in the future.
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