Ohio University recently informed students that the use of peer-to-peer technology has been banned from the campus computer network. The reasons cited range from network congestion to malicious ...

Peer-to-peer networking has caused a dramatic increase in Internet traffic. Today, the major P2P user is the consumer, and the major application is media file sharing. Music, movies and the like now ...

Sun is betting on JXTA (JuXTApose), an open-source technology being developed by the Santa Clara, Calif.-based vendor under the JXTA Project, a Sun-funded initiative devoted to developing peer-to-peer ...

Peer-to-peer technology may have pulled off the greatest disappearing act of the post-dot-com era. Once heralded as the second coming of the Internet, file-sharing giant Napster was sued out of ...

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 computing is more than sharing music files. Indeed, beleaguered Napster is an example of just one area of P2P technology. A P2P network allows PCs to communicate directly with one another ...

It doesn't take much these days to elevate a technology to hot-button status, complete with its own lingo and a catchy buzzword. After a few swiped songs, nifty names such as Napster and MP3 pop up.

In the year 2000, enterprise solutions with P2P networking features were not widely implemented. However, Frost & Sullivan forecasts that 6.2 million enterprise users will have access to ...

Companies also announce plans to test Pando Network Aware™ P2P technology on Comcast’s network to identify faster and more efficient ways to deliver legal P2P content Comcast Corporation and Pando ...

Just weeks after its first public hints of peer-to-peer (P2P) technology aspirations, Sun Microsystems Inc. signed an agreement to acquire privately held P2P search company InfraSearch Inc. In ...

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 ...

In this new feature, we’ll pose a pertinent question to a group of market analysts to give you a better sense of how the financial services sector perceives developments in the streaming media ...