Social networking is everywhere these days and that hasn't escaped the lexicographers at the Oxford University Press. They have chosen 'unfriend' as the 2009 Word of the Year. Apparently nothing earth-shattering is expected during the... More...
According to a report from the Associated Press, a federal judge has barred RealNetworks Inc. from selling a product that would allow consumers to copy DVDs to their hard drives, pending a full trial. Walt... More...
Ever wondered what Bill Gates' Facebook really looks like? This week, reports have surfaced that Bill Gates stopped using Facebook because too many people wanted to add him as a friend. Gates told an audience... More...
The same judge who oversaw the Napster case is now overseeing the ongoing case against RealNetworks and that company's RealDVD software. As previously reported on Neowin, the software allows users to make back-ups of their... More...
The embarrassing shareholder class action lawsuit filed by the pensions funds for Detroit policemen and firemen as well as its city workers against Yahoo! spells out not just what it calls a web of cushy... More...
When glancing through the multiplayer beta for Electronic Arts' upcoming Xbox 360 shooter Battlefield: Bad Company last night I noticed something odd in the title's "Unlocks" section: Ten of the unlockable weapons are tagged with... More...
RealNetworks, which develops online games for Nintendo's Wii console, has purchased game-syndication company Trymedia from Macrovision to reach more players. San Francisco-based Trymedia helps Web portals, online retailers and game developers distribute personal-computer games over... More...
It's the stuff press releases are made of, but the story is great to boot. Paxton Galvanek never had medical training, but he'd gone through medic certification in the America's Army video game. Then one... More...
Crave hangs with people in high places -- that's how we get exclusives and free food. A few weeks ago we were having a civilised dinner with our friends at Asus and angling for cool... More...
RealNetworks has entered into an agreement to acquire Game Trust, a casual-gaming company based in New York, with plans to add Game Trust's community and commerce capabilities to the technology platform currently on offer to... More...
According to Media Rights Technologies (MRT), Vista, Flash, RealPlayer, and iTunes are infringing products under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and MRT has just sent cease-and-desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, Real, and Apple. "Together these... More...
If your complaining doesn't work, try doing the same as what you were complaining about. Google buys DoubleClick, Yahoo! is already planning to buy the rest of Right Media, and it appears that Microsoft has... More...
After many months, even years, of promising an e-mail push technology equivalent to what the RIM Blackberry service offers, it looks like Palm has finally done it. At least it has come close, with a... More...
The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) needs access to the raw data collected by the FCC in order to unearth the true statistics proving or disproving competitiveness in the US broadband market. The FCC has... More...
Yesterday, various videos of what appeared to be a new Ghostbusters game showed up on Youtube. Many people figured the videos were fake and that the game was "photoshopped" from some Gears of War footage... More...
There are two companies who say they have a system that can monitor traffic on roads and highways. They say their systems are based on tracking the signals of cellphones that are inside cars while... More...
Found here are some brand new screenshots that compare in game shots from Crysis with actual real life photos. The development team have replicated many parts of this island located in Hawaii from thousands of... More...
Thanks to slimy for the submitting this news story to us. Paul Thurott has published an article clarifying the rumours circulating around the Internet about the differences in the EULA of Windows Vista to Windows... More...
Just five years since Apple released iPods that integrate with iTunes, Apple foes Real Networks and SanDisk are teaming up in an attempt to emulate that iTunes/iPod ecosystem. Real and SanDisk plan to release... More...
WHEN we first time heard that R600 was going to be a big chip we could figure out that ATI wanted to completely redesign the chip and fill it full of lot pipes. We previously... More...
On Wednesday, RealNetworks, Inc. announced that it had agreed to distribute Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox Web browser, and that it has extended its distribution deal with Google, Inc. Under the multiyear deals, Seattle-based RealNetworks would continue... More...
When Microsoft Corp. released its first Windows Vista Community Technology Preview build this fall, company officials said they did so in the name of transparency. But testers say Microsoft is being anything but transparent about... More...
You know how some people can get really cranky when they are hungry? I personally know a few like this. They actually get visibly upset when the slightest edge of hunger hits them.... More...
Real Networks has admitted its move to make tracks acquired through its US-only Rhapsody music service puts the company at risk of a legal suit by Apple. In the company's Securities and Exchange report on... More...
The deals pile up for former GTA designer David Jones as he signs on for flight of 360 titles. Further extending the narrative of Real Time Worlds (RTW), the no-longer-boutique game development... More...
Real-time communication is the way forward for the internet, if Microsoft's to be believed. The software giant is to launch new instant messaging, web conferencing and internet telephony software for office workers. Three... More...
In the wake of Real Software Inc. announcing a new version of its Realbasic application development tool, the company is concerned about a patent application Microsoft Corp. has filed that could affect all BASIC-like programming... More...
Companies and governments have long been concerned about internet abuse in offices; most companies have strict rules against what content can and cannot be viewed. 70% of UK organisations admitted to disciplining staff over in-appropriate... More...
RealNetworks Inc. and KDE eV on Tuesday both released patches for their desktop software, fixing serious security holes that could allow an attacker to take over a user's system. The update to KOffice, the productivity... More...
Considering the publicity that has surrounded - and, despite super new security-focused Service Packs, continues to surround - Windows security issues, Microsoft's determination to demonstrate that Linux is less secure than Windows shows a certain... More...
Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has issued a critical update to fix multiple security flaws in its media player software. The flaws, described by Secunia as "highly critical," could allow malicious hackers access... More...
Sixty Shepherd Neame pubs in Kent, Surrey, London, Sussex and Essex are to get hooked up to wireless broadband by Christmas as the brewery expands its award-winning rural broadband project. It was drinks... More...
Earlier this week RealNetwork launched another attack against Apple's control over the iPod. The attack this time consisted of a webpage and a petition. The petitioned titled "Hey Apple, Don't Break My iPod!"... More...
Earlier today Apple released a statement about the recent actions of RealNetorks. Accusing Real of using hacker-like tactics for its Harmony technology. Now RealNetwork's is shooting back saying "Consumers, and not Apple, should... More...
As we all know Real has released a beta version of its software called Harmony. Harmony allows users of Reals online Music Store to transfer their files to their iPod in Reals Music Store... More...
Thanks Waqas. Could it be under the influence of the supposingly successful iTunes music store that pushes Real Network to come up with a $12.95/month service for full-lenght film downloads? Hoping to... More...
RealNetworks has patched two highly critical holes in its media player. The bugs could allow an attacker to run malicious code by directing users to a specially-crafted Web page, via an email message for example,... More...
You want to know one reason why Microsoft is taking so long to come out with Longhorn? It wants to make darn sure that it's as Linux and open-source unfriendly as humanly possible. Today, you... More...
A few days after a Paul Palumbo from AccuStream iMedia Research, was quoted everywhere saying that audio and video streaming is finally "mainstream", one reader contacted me asking why an update of the Netscape Radio... More...
RealNetworks on Monday released an update to its digital audio and video software that promises support for every major content format and online music download service. The latest version of the RealPlayer... More...
Microsoft Corp. on Friday filed its formal response to RealNetworks Inc.'s anti-trust lawsuit against it, denying allegations that it is impeding competition in the digital media market. In the "Answers and Defenses" filing in federal... More...
Silence may be golden, but now, thanks to iTunes, it can be downloaded for a mere 99 cents. Among the hundreds of thousands of downloadable songs for sale at Apple Computer's online... More...
Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer or RealOne Player. Features of version 1.20: - Media Player Classic [version 6.4.7.5] - RealMedia Codecs [version... More...
Microsoft has asked a judge to move an antitrust lawsuit filed by longtime rival RealNetworks to the state of Washington from California, the world's largest software maker said on Thursday. Seattle-based RealNetworks... More...
Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer/RealOne Player. You do need a player that is capable of playing RealMedia. The included Media Player Classic supports it... More...
IBM and RealNetworks are aligning digital media technologies to create a system for content owners to sell their assets electronically, in a partnership to rival a common foe: Microsoft. The two companies... More...
Folks have been talking about the coming convergence between PCs and consumer electronics for years. But that was the easy part. The hard call was to figure out exactly how the pieces... More...
Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer/RealOne Player. Supported are: - RealAudio (.ra .rpm) - RealMedia (.rm .ram .rmvb .rpx .smi .smil) - RealText (.rt) -... More...
RealNetworks is expected to throw its hat into the digital song store ring later this week, releasing a download service based on technology similar to that used in Apple Computer's iTunes store, according to sources... More...
Faced with another private antitrust lawsuit, this time from digital media competitor Real Networks Inc., Microsoft Corp. late Thursday defended its position in the space. "There is vibrant competition in this marketplace and Real Networks'... More...