We look at the latest technology gadgets and consumer tech toys and what they can offer to business IT. Anyone who has dabbled with asking friends and contacts for a VPN recommendation will have ...

BitTorrent is a protocol developed by Bram Cohen in 2001 that revolutionized file sharing on the internet. Unlike traditional methods where a central server handles the distribution of files, ...

Why it matters: There are a lot of risks associated with peer-to-peer file sharing that justifiably concern US universities. These networks can lead to security issues, they consume a lot of bandwidth ...

Statement of Compliance with Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Requirements in the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 specifies that universities must ...

Wagner Resource Corp. recently learned the hard way what Pfizer Inc. and many other companies have similarly discovered in the past: installing peer-to-peer file-sharing software on corporate ...

Windows quietly uses every PC running it as a node in a peer-to-peer file-sharing network for system updates, and most users have no idea it is happening. The feature, called Delivery Optimization, ...