Nokia and RealNetworks have announced an expansion of their long-term relationship to enable Nokia to ship RealNetworks' media formats on a wide variety of its advanced phones. "The new licensing and development model with Real fully supports Nokia's multi-format strategy and our commitment to resp...
For Microsoft, Christmas might come early this week -- or the ghosts of market dominance past might come back to haunt the software giant -- as a key court ruling is expected Wednesday that will determine whether the penalties assessed by European regulators are set aside while a trial unfolds in co...
Singingfish.com is fine-tuning its image with the launch today of a revamped multimedia search engine on its Web site that specializes in finding audio and video content. This marks the AOL property's transformation from developer and marketer of multimedia search services to companies like RealNetw...
Showing no sign of letting up in its legal war against music swappers, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed another 761 copyright-infringement lawsuits against individuals. As in the most recent batch of suits filed last month, the RIAA once again set its sights squarely on...
Confident that its technology now is on a par with its competition, Microsoft reportedly plans to formally launch its long-awaited new search product tomorrow, taking the search wars to a new level in the process. Microsoft reportedly has been working on the search engine for 18 months and made a be...
Microsoft has agreed to pay Novell US$536 million to settle a long-simmer private antitrust claim over its NetWare operating system, a deal that also calls for Novell to withdraw from the European antitrust proceedings against Microsoft. Microsoft said the deal, which came about after lengthy privat...
Microsoft formally asked a European court to toss out a requirement that it share expanded portions of the Windows source code, the opening salvo in what analysts say is shaping up to be another epic battle with antitrust regulators. In the first of what is slated to be a two-day hearing before the ...
Adding the latest competitive twist to the online music space, XM Satellite Radio said it would launch an Internet version of its commercial-free radio service next month. XM said it would offer a Web-only subscription to its satellite service for US$7.99 per month. Subscribers to its radio service,...
In a bid to win customers from market leader and now fierce rival Apple, RealNetworks said Tuesday it would offer 49-cent music downloads, a price-slashing move that the company admitted would cut into its profits. Real said it would cut its prices in half, offering single-song downloads for 49 cent...
Microsoft has announced that it will ask a European court to suspend parts of the European Commission's March 24th ruling, which ordered the company to change its business practices and pay a fine of US$612 million. In the ruling, the commission mandates that Microsoft must strip Media Player softwa...
RealNetworks not only provides the RealPlayer platform for delivering digital media across a multitude of devices, but also delivers subscription music through its digital jukebox, Rhapsody, and has just opened a download store. Such an array of tactics is what it takes to conquer the growing digita...
AOL Time Warner and Microsoft have agreed to a far-reaching settlement in which the software giant will pay $750 million to AOL to dispose of allegations that it acted unfairly to monopolize the Web browser market. The settlement ends the browser wars that began eight years ago and clears the way fo...
Amazon.com has announced it will use Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Series products to boost its ability to stream music samples to customers from its family of e-tail sites, including its own site, CDnow.com, VirginMega.com and Borders.com. Although the choice of Windows Media Player is a key part of ...
Palm's latest trick is a combination organizer/camera/MP3 player/movie player called the Zire 71 -- the second version of the company's consumer-model PDA. The bad news is, the Zire 71 has a slow camera that takes fuzzy pictures and an MP3 player that's never quite loud enough. The good news is, for...
Amid widespread reports that Apple Computer is mulling the purchase of Vivendi Universal's music business, Microsoft may be about to join the fray. Published reports say Vivendi has approached Microsoft as part of its effort to find a suitable buyer for the Universal music label. Late last week, App...
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