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Monday June 11, 4:30 am Eastern Time
AmeriTrade sees rise in account closures - WSJ
NEW YORK, June 11 (Reuters) - Online broker AmeriTrade Holding Corp. (NasdaqNM:AMTD - news) reported a dramatic rise in the number of people closing their accounts in May, as customers appeared to balk at the company`s new maintenance fees, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Monday.

The newspaper reported that the Omaha, Nebraska-based AmeriTrade fared better in trading activity, with average trades per day showing only a modest decline.

About 12,000 customers closed their brokerage accounts last month, compared with just 5,000 in April, the newspaper reported. The attrition rage was the company`s highest since at least October 1998, the last month for which data were available.

In a bid to bolster its bottom line amid lackluster trading volumes, AmeriTrade said in April it would begin charging a quarterly fee of $15 on accounts that have less than $2,000 in total assets or make fewer than four trades in a six-month period, the newspaper reported.

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Cisco to sell RealNetworks streaming software Monday June 11, 4:25 am Eastern Time
Cisco to sell RealNetworks streaming software -WSJ
NEW YORK, June 11 (Reuters) - RealNetworks Inc. (NasdaqNM:RNWK - news) plans to announce on Monday that Cisco Systems Inc. (NasdaqNM:CSCO - news) will help sell its Internet audio-and-video broadcasting technology to businesses, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Monday.

Under the deal, which could strengthen RealNetworks` efforts to sign up more corporate customers to use its software, San Francisco-based Cisco will sell RealNetworks` RealSystem iQ software products -- used for ``streaming,`` or broadcasting audio and video over the Internet -- to clients such as Internet service providers and large businesses with wide-reaching corporate networks, the newspaper reported.

As part of the deal, Cisco will receive a portion of the proceeds from RealNetworks products it sells, though the companies declined to disclose further details, the newspaper reported.

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Monday June 11, 5:00 am Eastern Time
Press Release
SOURCE: RealNetworks, Inc.
RealNetworks Announces Strategic Content Networking Agreement with Cisco Systems
Cisco Incorporates RealSystem iQ into Content Networking Product Line
SEATTLE, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- RealNetworks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK - news), the recognized leader in media delivery on the Internet, today announced it has teamed with Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - news), the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, to incorporate RealSystem® iQ within Cisco`s content networking product family, providing end-to-end digital media delivery solutions that enable customers to build cost effective enterprise services and revenue generating applications from their digital media assets.

Cisco joins an extensive set of networking, technology, and infrastructure companies who are integrating RealSystem iQ platform products and solutions, ensuring that comprehensive network capabilities will be in place to efficiently and cost effectively deliver digital media. Cisco will include RealSystem Server 8 and RealSystem Proxy 8 within its content networking product line, and will resell the RealSystem iQ platform, including RealSystem Server Intranet products, to enterprise customers. Additionally, RealNetworks and Cisco will cooperatively market and sell digital delivery solutions to access ISP`s and network service providers.

The integration of RealSystem iQ, which enables peer-to-peer media delivery networking, with Cisco`s Content Distribution Manager and Content Engine appliances will provide customers with a tremendously scaleable and reliable solution. RealSystem iQ is designed to deliver the breakthrough quality of RealVideo® 8 and RealAudio® 8, MPEG1, MPEG2, MP3, Apple QuickTime, Flash, and over 45 media types to all devices. The RealSystem iQ universal delivery capabilities, available on all major operating systems, have been broadly deployed by the world`s leading content delivery networks and major broadcasters. The agreement with Cisco underscores this momentum, and paves the way toward powering the Internet community of broadcasters, enterprises, service providers, and consumers with RealSystem iQ-enabled networks, eliminating media delivery congestion and providing unprecedented flexibility, scalability, and mission critical reliability for rich media applications.

``We designed the highly scaleable, reliable, OS-independent architecture of RealSystem iQ to easily integrate into the infrastructure of the Internet-infrastructure that Cisco helped to pioneer,`` said Rob Glaser, chairman and CEO, RealNetworks, Inc. ``That`s why it makes perfect sense for RealNetworks and Cisco to join forces and provide comprehensive media delivery solutions that enable customers to generate revenue and create new business applications.``

``Today`s Internet and corporate intranets have grown beyond simple text, to a world of rich media that requires a new approach to network architecture,`` said Mike Volpi, senior vice president and chief strategy officer of Cisco Systems. ``With this strategic agreement, Cisco and RealNetworks advance the delivery of the next generation of Internet business applications using digital media.``

About RealSystem iQ

RealSystem iQ is a robust end-to-end, standards-based, OS-independent, network media delivery system providing the common architecture for the global delivery of digital media over the Internet -- from any platform, to any device, in multiple media formats, from narrowband audio to high fidelity broadband video. RealSystem iQ is designed to efficiently broadcast, transport and deliver the breakthrough quality of RealAudio and RealVideo as well as media formats including: MP3, MPEG1, MPEG2, Apple QuickTime, Flash and over 45 other media formats via RealSystem`s extensible architecture. RealSystem iQ operates at multiple levels to reliably deliver both live and on-demand media and eliminate congestion in the ``middle of the network``. Through distributed network configurations of interconnected RealSystem Servers, RealSystem iQ empowers all servers to broadcast into the network, receive content from other servers, and deliver media to vast audiences, including over 200 million unique registered RealPlayer® users. RealSystem iQ also provides a highly extensible architecture enabling delivery to next-generation media playback devices including wireless mobile devices, game consoles, and broadband ready set-top boxes.

About RealNetworks

RealNetworks, Inc is the global leader in digital media delivery. It develops and markets software products and services designed to enable users of personal computers and other consumer electronic devices to send and receive audio, video and other multimedia services using the Web. Consumers can access and experience audio/video programming and download RealNetworks consumer software on the Internet at http://www.real.com. RealNetworks` systems and corporate information is located on the Internet at http://www.realnetworks.com.

RealNetworks, RealSystem, RealAudio, RealVideo, and RealPlayer are registered trademarks of RealNetworks, Inc.

SOURCE: RealNetworks, Inc.