RealNetworks' Grand Illusion
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RealNetworks hopes to carve a thicker slice of Apple's pie.
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Modern marvels like game consoles and T-shirts that make air guitarists' phantom riffs audible further blur the line between the real and virtual worlds. Commentary by Momus.
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The next-generation Net won't just be more portable and personal. It'll also harness the power of people, making it even easier to zero in on precisely what you're looking for.
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RealNetworks launches a beta version of its RealPlayer software that allows users to easily record and download videos to their PCs.
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One day after Symantec&#160;researchers discovered software that attacked a critical&#160;unpatched vulnerability in RealNetworks&#39; media player, Real says that a fix for the issue is imminent.&quot;Real has created a patch for RealPlayer 10.5 and RealPlayer 11 that addresses the vulnerability identified by Symantec,&quot; wrote RealNetworks General Manager of Product Development Russ Ryan, in a Friday blog posting. &quot;Real will make this patch available to users via this blog and our security update page later today.&quot;Users of RealOne Player, RealOne Player v2, and RealPlayer 10 should upgrade to the 10.5 version of the product or the RealPlayer 11 beta code and should install the patch, Ryan said.The attack exploits a flaw in an ActiveX browser helper object, software that RealPlayer employs to help users who are experiencing technical difficulties, so the PC must be using the Internet Explorer browser to be affected by this particular attack, Symantec said.The attack only works on Windows systems, RealNetworks said. Linux, Mac and RealPlayer 8 users are not affected.Attackers were using a complicated network of advertising Web sites to launch the attack from a Web site that has been spotted hosting malicious code several times over the past two years, Symantec said.&quot;The exploit itself is embedded in advertisements that were being served by 247realmedia.com,&quot; Symantec said in a note on its DeepSight threat management system. &quot;The redirection to the exploit page... was accomplished through an iFrame embedded in each advertisement.&quot;Iframe is an HTML command that allows developers to insert a second Web page into the page being viewed. It is often used by malware creators because these iFrame pages can be as small as 1 pixel, making them invisible to the naked eye.Users who do not have the patch can turn off ActiveScripting within IE as a workaround to the problem. Very technical users can also set kill bit on the Class identifier (CLSID) FDC7A535-4070-4B92-A0EA-D9994BCC0DC5 to disable the ActiveX control, Symantec said.&#160;
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An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
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Alternate reality able to handle seven million users and will create 10,000 'real' jobs.
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Virtual reality might finally be the medium that unites the passive experience of watching television with the interactive potential of the Web.
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Here's an interesting Howto on connecting FlickrFan to the Mac desktop. I love this stuff.  Here's a movie that demonstrates this coolest of hacks.
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Yet another communications-infrastructure player reports promising results.
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Earlier this year RealNetworks came up with a workaround allowing music downloaded from its store to work on iPods. This was achieved by reverse-engineering Apple&#39;s FairPlay technology, and Real named it Harmony (see our previous coverage).
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An attack utilizing a vulnerability in an ActiveX control for the popular RealPlayer media program may be spending in a more more dangerous fashion than anyone realized. Exploit code for the vuln has been found embedded in ads served up from a popular advertising site.
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Big Blue is investing big to see how it can make 3D virtual environments pay off for the company and its customers.Images: Big Blue in 'Second Life'
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(InfoWorld) - Web Keywords: Article Body: DEMO '07 will as usual give venture capitalists, large high-tech companies on the prowl for the next big thing to buy, and the general public, a closer look at dozens of new technologies, some memorable, some that will be hard to remember just a few short weeks after the conference is over. Global Communications, a company that claims nothing less than the ability to digitize light into six-foot diameter signals to deliver broadcast-quality content will most likely fall into the former rather than the latter category. The company offers two different pieces of patented technology, VUTP Light and VUTP (Video over Untwisted Pair). VUTP Light sits inside a black box that plugs into a fiber optic deployment that can wirelessly transmit from 120Mb to a terabit of data from point to multi-point, just like Wi-Fi. But this technology is obviously on steroids. Â J. Johnson, chairman of Global Communications differentiates VUTP Light from laser by saying that VUTP is the "pure digitization of light" "A laser has a 3-inch diameter. We run six feet in diameter," says Johnson. Not only is it wide, according to Johnson, it also travels well, eight to 20 kilometers without degradation. Using a megahertz frequency in the unlicensed spectrum, it can retransmit broadcast-quality television signals in real time, both standard and HDTV, either wirelessly using VUTP Light or over ordinary copper telephone wire using Global Communications' second product simply dubbed VUTP. One of the problems that the global technology overcomes, says Johnson, is that current technology, such as Wi-Fi, cable, or even satellite, all use a serial port at the back of each piece of electronic equipment on the network. "The serial port can't scale," Johnson said, and because it doesnât use serial technology, VUTP can quickly scale to nationwide use. Access points do not require towers; they can be installed on sides of building. If Global Communications works as advertised, it could be the answer to the last mile issue that has dogged broadband access to the home and businesses for years. However, there is one remaining hurdle that has little to do with technology and everything to do with why Global Communications has come to DEMO: it must have the kind of funding that will get it noticed and, over time, deployed in enough geographies to become a true competitor to the likes of Verizon, Comcast, ATT, Cox, and Times Warner.
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It seems hard to imagine, but the Internet was still a wild frontier just a decade ago.  But at a leading industry conference of the time a group of seers offered some remarkably prescient predictions of what was to come.
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Sound too good to be true? Don't worry -- reality is not so bad.
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RealNetworks finds a partner in Yahoo! Music.