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 average size of files being shared over peer-to-peer networks has more than doubled since 2002. It's a fact that reflects the types of media being digitized and shared nowadays, and is likely to ...

Red Swoosh is a very cool system that enables the downloading of a big file (such as a video) to be distributed among all the people who already have it so that the original publisher of the file ...

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 ...

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 ...

The growth rate for illegal downloading of copyrighted material via peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing services slowed during 2006, while use of their legal counterparts picked up, according to recent ...

There's probably a dozen or more ways this is getting done in your shop. Here's what you need to know to create a supported, secure solution for everyone. In "Jurassic Park," Dr. Malcolm famously ...

Congress is back on the war path about file sharing systems that critics say make it a little too easy for consumers, businesses, and even government agencies to accidentally disclose confidential ...