Arguably, the best technology today for distributing a focused archive of content to a widespread audience is BitTorrent, often simply called "torrent." Unlike many other P2P technologies, torrents do ...

New file-swapping applications are bridging formerly separate networks, promising to improve the efficiency of peer-to-peer searches and sharpen competition among rival software developers. On ...

Peer-to-peer technologies have become associated with piracy in most people’s minds – but P2P is a computing model that has many above-board applications. The basic premise of P2P is that computing, ...

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 ...

What are peer-to-peer (P2P) networks? Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology is based on the decentralization concept, which lets network participants conduct transactions without needing any middle-man, ...

Despite its formidable reach, the social-media platform X faces a steep climb to achieve its goal of launching a peer-to-peer payments service, according to payments experts. X, formerly known as ...

Does your business need reliable, dedicated and secure data transmission between multiple and often remote sites? Well, point-to-point (P2P or PtP) wireless networks have a unique advantage: They ...

A significant setback to the adoption of current person-to-person payments technologies is that the transactions often can’t happen in real-time. But by repurposing existing industry infrastructure, ...