When Missouri University of Science & Technology recently installed new bandwidth management hardware, Systems Security Analyst Karl Lutzen hit upon a novel idea for using the system to cut down on ...

The number of consumers downloading music from authorized sites could exceed that of peer-to-peer (P2P) users this year, according to research conducted by the NPD Group. The growth rate of ...

One of the nation’s largest Internet service providers (ISP), Verizon Communications, is working to make peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks more efficient for transferring large files than ever ...

Sun's Jxta protocol will allow file-swapping and data sharing between PDAs and mobile phones. Sun Microsystems last week announced it will extend its Jxta peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol for use with ...

Peer-to-Peer file sharing is an exciting technology for delivering big content files to users who are distributed around a network. In contrast to traditional file servers, where large amounts of ...

After the nifty Rendezvous-based P2P streaming features of iTunes 4 were announced, it was only a matter of time before someone hacked the protocol and figured out away to let users on different ...

Microsoft recently released software tools for Windows XP that are intended to encourage the creation of P2P applications. The software development kit also offers an update to Windows XP that ...

When it comes to peer-to-peer file sharing, there's always been a kind of love-hate relationship between the technology world and systems such as BitTorrent and the like. Content owners tentatively ...

A presentation Friday in New York revealed the results of the tests, conducted with the collaboration of Pando Networks, a peer-assisted content delivery service provider, and Yale University, which ...

At its most basic, peer-to-peer file sharing -- often referred to as P2P -- transfers files between two individual PCs (one to one), as opposed to one server downloading to and uploading from several ...

The Pirate Bay may never make it to its teenage years. The popular file sharing site, launched in 2003, was recently taken offline following a raid by Swedish police. It’s a sad event for a site that ...