Intel is the latest company to buy up some patents, but rather than spending billions upon billions of dollars, it seems to have picked up a relative bargain, snapping up RealNetwork’s patents for just over one tenth of a billion, at $120m.

HP's TippingPoint operation will publicly disclose security vulnerabilities six months after they are reported.

RealNetworks has given up its effort to sell the DVD backup product RealDVD and will refund its customers' money and pay the movie studios' legal expenses.

Last week, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel “Dismissed with Prejudice” the case brought by Real Networks against The DVD Copy Control Association and several movie studios.  This means that Real is liable for all costs in the case.

A U.S. District Court judge has enjoined RealNetworks from selling its RealDVD software that copies DVDs to the user's hard disk.

Microsoft and the European Commission are talking again, with the apparent aim of settling the anti-trust issues before the current competition commissioner steps down.

RealNetworks has added a new countersuit in its battle with the movie industry over the company's RealDVD disc backup software.

As part of its court defense of RealDVD, Real Networks displayed in court a possible future product: a set-top box to hold ripped DVDs.

In the latest case touching on consumer rights vis a vis digital content, RealNetworks and the MPAA are set to argue over the legality of Real's RealDVD copying software.