News (3)

  • Why we need, and will have, P2P

    The potential of P2P seems to be immense - but like most new ideas it's potentially a double-edged sword, and a lot of confusion surrounds it.

  • Reuters reports P2P uptake

    Reuters is considering peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing to deliver content and services. It believes it has spotted a way to make cost savings from this emerging new architecture, popularised by the Napster music-sharing service.

  • Writing file sharing's final chapter

    Computer scientist and entrepreneur Gene Kan draws lessons from the history of P2P to warn what often happens when people get overly excited about new technologies.

Create an e-mail alert for "file swapping"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
file swapping


Frequency: *
Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Renai LeMay StartupCamp Melbourne: The review
    StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0.
  • Array Google should come clean on datacentres
    It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
  • Array US shows what OPEL could have been
    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured