RealNetworks, SanDisk to take on iPod
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RealNetworks Inc. is teaming up with SanDisk Corp. to release a portable music player that more closely links with RealNetworks' Rhapsody online music service, in the latest attempt to take on Apple's iPod and iTunes stronghold.
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NEW YORK - This is how serious the competition for digital music customers has become: RealNetworks will widen its losses in the hope of upgrading users to its premium subscription service.
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By ALLISON LINN  SEATTLE - RealNetworks Inc. is teaming up with SanDisk Corp. to release a portable music player that more closely links with RealNetworks' Rhapsody online music service, in the latest attempt to take on Apple's iPod and iTunes stronghold.
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Apple Computer has updated the software for some of its iPod digital media players so that songs bought from RealNetworks won&#39;t play.
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Apple Computer Inc. has updated the software for some of its iPod music players so that songs bought from RealNetworks Inc. won&#39;t play.
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Starting with new Sansa e200 gadgets, Real is counting on consumers wanting to take a "music library" from one device to another
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Apple's new iPod Nano has competition: The SanDisk SansaView plays video, displays photos, and receives FM radio signals.
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If you go by the headlines alone, it sounds like RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK) is about to embark on a heady money-losing venture as it halves prices for its music download service Harmony, looking to take a bite out of Apple ...
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For more than a year, Apple Computers Inc. enjoyed singular success selling songs exclusively to users of its iPod portable music player. Now, it's got rival RealNetworks Inc. trying to lure iTunes customers away.
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Petition calling on Apple to open its music player to rival tunes becomes target of anti-RealNetworks brickbats.
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A financial analyst is saying that Apple will change its video iPod's storage from spinning disk to solid state disk later this year, and it will add a wider screen, GPS and Wi-Fi.
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(InfoWorld) - The growing popularity of video on the Web has prompted RealNetworks to launch a beta version of its RealPlayer software that allows users to easily record and download videos to their PCs. The software, RealPlayer version 11, can be downloaded free, the company said Tuesday. With the new version, users can surf the Web and select clips or longer videos by clicking a "Download this video" icon that pops up whenever they view video content. Videos are downloaded in the background, allowing users to view the content not only at their own convenience but also on the full screen of their PCs, according to RealNetworks spokesman Ryan Luckin. Moreover, users don't have to worry about knowing video formats, Luckin said. The new version records online video in all major formats, including Flash, Windows Media, and QuickTime. In addition, it recognizes video content protected by DRM systems and blocks such content from being recorded. RealNetworks plans additional features, including an option to allow video content to be downloaded to portable devices, such as iPods, according to Luckin. With the free version of RealPlayer, users can burn videos to CDs in the VCD (video compact disc) format. For $29.99, users can purchase RealPlayer Plus, which allows them to burn to DVDs.
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RealNetworks takes on Apple... again.
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RealNetworks seems to have had a very popular promotion in celebration of its new Harmony technology, which allows consumers to download songs bought at the RealPlayer Music Store and transfer them to popular portable devices, including iPods.
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RealNetworks announced that it has sold 1 million songs in the week since beginning its half-price music promotion. Real dropped song pricing to 49-cents from 99-cents, in part to highlight its Harmony technology, which allows purchased songs to be played on over 70 digital media players including Apple's iPod. But Apple has chastised Real for what it calls "tactics and ethics of a hacker," and says future iPod software updates will likely break compatibility with Harmony.
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The Memorex iFlip docks and charges your 5G iPod and plays video on a 7-inch LCD. Your out-the-door price: $59.99, no rebate required.
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The vast majority of consumers are unaware that an Apple iPod digital music player only plays proprietary iTunes files, while a smaller majority agree that it is within RealNetworks&#39; rights to develop a program that will make its music files compatible