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Kaleidescape, a company that sought to enable consumers to create copies of their DVDs and store the digital files to a media server, has lost another legal battle.

Jan 31, 2012 -- RealNetworks announced that it has signed an agreement to sell a significant number of its patents and its next generation video codec software to Intel Corporation for a purchase price of $120 million.

Intel Corp. : RealNetworks announced that it has signed an agreement to sell a significant number of its patents and its next generation video codec software to Intel for a purchase price of $120M. Under terms of the sale, RealNetworks retains certain rights to continue to use the patents in current and future products.

A If you use Facebook , the world's top social networking site, you may have "liked" an Internet scheme without even knowing it - and unwittingly helped spread the scam to your Facebook friends.

Intel has announced the acquisition of 190 patents, 170 patent applications and video codec software from RealNetworks for $120m. The transaction comes just eight months after Intel bought SiPort, a Santa Clara, California-based company that made audio-processing semiconductors.

Following an industry trend, Intel will be scooping up a large selection of patents and other items under a planned deal with Intel will pay $120 million to RealNetworks for some 190 patents and 170 patent applications, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

RealNetworks Inc A announced that it has signed an agreement to sell a significant number of its patents and its next generation video codec software to Intel for a purchase price of $120M. Under terms of the sale, RealNetworks retains certain rights to continue to use the patents in current and future products.

RealNetworks was upgraded by research analysts at Canaccord Genuity to a "buy" rating in a report issued on Thursday.

Midem starts this weekend, and a number of announcements are already getting prepped.

The sale also includes a further 170 patent applications and a commitment to co-develop and share RealNetworks' video encoding software.

Intel has inked a deal with Real Networks to pay $120 million for a "significant number" of patents and Real Networks' next-generation video codec.

Chasing the post-download digital music opportunity, veteran services are seeking scale to fight dominant newcomers, whilst strangers from outside the space are launching their own new services with mixed success.

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Digital entertainment services company RealNetworks, Inc. will release its financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2011 ended Dec.

The last time same-sex marriage was debated in the Washington state Legislature, lawmakers voted to ban it.

It was a big week for supporters of gay marriage in Washington. Several influential companies, including Microsoft and RealNetworks, voiced their support, and on Thursday a key state lawmaker changed his mind and said he will now endorse the effort.

Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts , FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud . We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.