The Distributed Computing Industry Association's P4P workgroup is devising a new protocol for what researchers describe as carrier-grade peer-to-peer file transfer systems. Verizon reports that a ...

It may have gotten a bad rap, but peer-to-peer technology is increasingly used as a legitimate distribution tool for high-bandwidth applications like video. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News ...

Question: What happens when government workers at the National Archives, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Defense, and a Navy hospital all inadvertently make sensitive information ...

Peer-to-peer is under the gun again. Faced with a surge in network usage, internet service providers are grumbling about rising traffic levels. The increase is driven so far mostly by internet video ...

of student filmmakers from around the world. HOW WILL eLEARNING change as the next generation of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications becomes commonplace? Might P2P hold the seed of great pedagogical wins ...

More and more people are using peer-to-peer (P2P) software to move information across the Internet. Although it has useful applications, P2P technology can be a dangerous thing. P2P programs enable ...

Verizon announced this week that it has successfully tested a new , file-transfer system that the company says could eliminate many of the headaches that P2P systems have traditionally caused ISPs.

Every semester brings new technological challenges to the staff at the University of Florida, and September 2003 was no different from the norm. Students flocked to campus after a summer of freedom, ...

In the world of P2P client software, there are two major contenders to the throne: Kazaa and Morpheus. In contrast to the many lesser-known file-sharing clients, both Kazaa and Morpheus have ...

When the music service Spotify debuted in 2008 it made use of peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to deliver songs and since then it has been technological workhorse for millions of subscribers; however, ...