Real Cuts Cord on PlaysForSure, WMA
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Real said Monday that its Rhapsody service would switch over to its own in-house DRM software, ending a partnership with Microsoft for its PlaysForSure Windows Media technology. The SanDisk Sansa e200 line will be the first with the DRM embedded.
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RealNetworks  said on Thursday  the newest version of its digital music player would allow  users to save Internet video -- like those found on YouTube --  for viewing at a later time.
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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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MacCentral - RealNetworks Inc. said on Tuesday that it has sold more than a million songs at its online music store since slashing prices last week as part of a limited-time sale aimed at growing the user base of its new digital media software.
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RealNetworks badly needs a PR coup to regain credibility with music fans, but its latest &quot;freedom of music choice&quot; campaign is missing the mark, critics say.
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RealNetworks on Tuesday released a new beta version of its RealPlayer software, which takes a completely new approach from previous versions. Instead of focusing on desktop audio and video playback, RealPlayer 11 lets users download video off the Web.
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Shhh, don't tell anyone RealNetworks has patched a vulnerability in its RealPlayer and HelixPlayer software that made it possible for attackers to run arbitrary code on a victim's machine. The security hole affects applications running on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.â¦
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RealNetworks Inc. is ending a temporary promotion that slashed the price of its downloadable songs to 49 cents, but bargain hunters will still be able to find some deals at its online music store.
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RealNetworks says it sold more than three million tracks thanks to an aggressive three-week price promotion in the US. The company halved the cost of tracks to 49 cents in mid-August to try to tempt consumers away from Apple&#39;s iTunes music store.
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RealNetworks is taking over Yahooâs music subscription service. It hopes that as one of the last paid services standing it will better be able to promote the concept.
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RealNetworks will end its three-week &quot;Freedom of Choice&quot; online music promotion this week. Over 3 million songs were purchased during the sale, the company says.
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Apple&#39;s most recent firmware update for the iPod, released last month, breaks Real Network&#39;s Harmony technology, which enable songs bought from Real&#39;s online store to be played on the device.
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RealNetworks Inc. RNWK.O is ending its 49 cent-per-song music download service but will keep the promotional prices in place for top 10 songs, the Internet media and software company said on Thursday.
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Frontline Communications has gone out of business. A payment of $128 million to proceed with its bidding in government spectrum auctions was due last week.
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With competition heating up in the online music business, RealNetworks Inc. slashed prices Tuesday for downloading music.
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RealNetworks today is slashing the price of a digital download to 49 cents a song from 99 cents - a bold move in the war over digital music.
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RealNetworks Inc. is ending its 49 cent-per-song music download service but will keep the promotional prices in place for top 10 songs, the Internet media and software company said on Thursday.