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Apogee Case Studyu: Southwestern University
White Papers As peer-to-peer applications continued to evolve, and student use of the Internet for entertainment increased, Southwestern, like many schools, was forced to extend restrictions on services and applications.
[February 23, 2006, 23:00]
Powerline Communications Technology - Residential Versus Commercial
White Papers The Telkonet PlugPlus solution has a substantially different architecture from the residential powerline communications (PLC) solution, which is intended primarily for the single family residential market and where small peer-to-peer networks are...
[September 2, 2008, 7:34]
iPhone Users Beg For Universal Mobile Torrent Innovation
Blog Torrent technologies ripped through the computer industry via peer-to-peer file sharing, yet the starved for content iPhone users are becoming equally as hungry throughout the mobile industry. As handsets advance, the thirst for quality mobile...
[January 31, 2008, 0:11]
Filesharing and bilesharing: a 'three-strikes' rant
Blog Comment I expect the UK film council may be hoping for a result similar to that achieved by IRMA (The Irish Recorded Music Association) which forced Ireland's largest ISP, Eircom, into an out of court settlement under the terms of which, according to IRMA...
[May 13, 2009, 9:43]
Sharman challenges raids' validity
News One of the targets of the searches was Sharman, owner of popular peer-to-peer software Kazaa. Sharman Networks claimed Justice Murray Wilcox was not informed that Sharman Networks had agreed to submit to depositions and cooperate fully with the US...
[February 10, 2004, 7:25]
Google accused in copyright case
News The sites allegedly sold software to help people search for movies on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks and download them to their hard drive. Google has been accused of helping website operators who are being sued for helping people to find and...
[February 13, 2007, 8:43]
St. Bernard Software Case Study: River Forest Community School
White Papers Its current software solution was not sufficient, with Peer-to-Peer (P2P) activities running rampant, and students frequently sidestepping it to visit non-schoolwork related websites. The Director of Technology was tasked with finding a reliable...
[July 6, 2009, 9:50]
Hollywood homes in on student swappers
News ISPs have argued that the DMCA take-down requirements do not apply to peer-to-peer networks because the ISPs are not in a position to police the private hard drives of their customers. ACNS would trigger such email notifications and could...
[April 19, 2004, 14:45]
Entertainment industry appeals file-swap ruling
News That ruling, made by a Los Angeles federal court judge, Stephen Wilson, came as a sharp blow to copyright holders' strategy of suing peer-to-peer network operators and software developers in order to curb the explosive growth of file trading.
[August 20, 2003, 12:10]
Comdex: Bill Gates predicts death of the browser
News Describing "peer-to-peer" models like Napster, Gnutella and Instant Messenging as exciting, Gates claimed they do not go far enough to solving problems of privacy, security and people working asynchronously.
[November 14, 2000, 8:49]
P2P firms claim filtering 'impossible'
News Lawmakers "have been deliberately misinformed by self-interested industry about the technological capability of peer-to-peer services," said Adam Eisgrau, P2P United's executive director. If the peer-to-peer community is serious about becoming...
[January 29, 2004, 8:00]
Skype increases desktop integration
News The Luxembourg-based upstart has so far signed up 29 million registered users for its free peer-to-peer based Net phone calling - making it one of the fastest-growing services on the Net. Now it's aiming to milk profits from its swelling ranks of...
[March 24, 2005, 9:25]
Steep rise in IM worms
News In the same month, a total of 14 attacks hit peer-to-peer networks, such as Kazaa and eDonkey, according to Akonix, which sells security software and appliances. Of the worms related to IM services, 36 percent were tuned to more than one public...
[November 30, 2005, 9:55]
Tuesday
Blog Anything to save ourselves from the incredible evil of peer-to-peer transfer. The record industry is hard at work designing downloads that damage your data, according to reports. Should you be so misguided as to grab a tainted MP3, you'll run the...
[May 9, 2003, 12:37]
Tech investments: Should you go for low cost or capability for growth?
News If you only have a few systems and your security needs aren't great, you can get by with networking your Windows workstations in a peer-to-peer configuration. If you're ready to move from a peer to peer network to a domain, you'll need at least one...
[June 21, 2006, 16:15]
An Efficient Group Key Agreement Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers Thus, they are well-suited to the key establishment needs of dynamic peer-to-peer networks as in ad hoc networks. A Group Key Agreement (GKA) protocol is a mechanism to establish a cryptographic key for a group of participants, based on each one's...
[May 24, 2007, 1:00]
On Providing Reliability Guarantees in Live Video Streaming With Collaborative Clients
White Papers Peer dynamics, especially unscheduled node departures, affect the perceived video quality at a peer node in two ways. In particular, the amplitude of quality fluctuations and the duration for which stable quality video is available at a node...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
A Genetic-Neural Approach for Mobility Assisted Routing in a Mobile Encounter Network
White Papers This paper proposes an architecture in which a trained neural network is fed information about the message and the encountered peer, and which then decides whether to forward the message to the encountered peer.
[November 26, 2009, 23:00]
Spyware and adware hide in BitTorrent downloads
News Unlike peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa, eDonkey or the original Napster, no central search technology exists for BitTorrent. According to observers of the trend, videos and music that hide adware and spyware are increasingly being offered for...
[June 17, 2005, 10:00]
An Amortized Tit-for-Tat Protocol for Exchanging Bandwidth Instead of Content in P2P Networks
White Papers As a consequence, a peer can actively participate in the system only if it shares content that is of immediate interest to other peers. Bandwidth, in contrast to content, is independent of peer interests and so can be exchanged between any two peers.
[July 11, 2008, 1:02]
