7 posts and columns on Real

The Case of the Unfortunate Underscore: How Twitter Verified the Fake Wendi Over the Real Wendi

in Media on January 4 at 11:35 am PT

The butler didn’t do it. It was the punctuation, in the email, with the @.
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Ad Networks Pair Up: Specific Media Buys BBE

in Media on October 15, 2010 at 3:04 pm PT

We’ll see more of this over time, as the overstuffed ad network industry consolidates, and this one makes some sense on paper: BBE specializes in video ads, and Specific doesn’t have any video business at all.

RealNetworks Wants a Convergence Play–Just Like Everyone Else

in Media on January 4, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

RealNetworks figures you’re going to want to move your entertainment off the Web and onto whatever device you want, whenever you want. So do a lot of competitors.
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The Swiss Army Knife of Portable Videos

in The Digital Solution on June 30, 2009 at 3:50 pm PT

RealPlayer SP grabs videos from the Web and converts and transfers them to over a dozen portable devices. While other software programs perform two or just one of these tasks, RealPlayer’s trio of talent make it like a digital Swiss army knife.

Will Carriers Save The Subscription Music Business?

in News on May 22, 2009 at 12:41 pm PT

The news this week that Napster is relaunching with a $5-a-month subscription plan that includes 5 free MP3 downloads would appear to be a troubling development for RealNetworks’ rival Rhapsody service, which will set you back $13 a month for a streaming service that lacks the free MP3s. It is also no doubt irritating to Real that it comes from a company that is now a unit of Best Buy: in the past, the Best Buy digital music store was a re-branded version of Rhapsody, which came pre-loaded on non-Zune, non-iPod music players sold by the retailer.

RealDVD Launch Buffering…Buffering…

in News on October 8, 2008 at 6:47 am PT

Looks like RealNetworks’ RealDVD, the company’s new “legal” DVD ripper, is off the market for the foreseeable future. U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel on Tuesday renewed the temporary restraining order barring Real from distributing the software.