peer-to-peer in comment and analysis
RSS peer-to-peer in comment and analysis
Sort by: Relevance | Date
Name that tune...the rise of Shazam
Comment They make a lot of money out of peer-to-peer messaging. But he needs the operators to buy his argument - because he needs their support to create the kind of services he would like, such as the ability to offer users simple fixed-price direct music... [12 Jun 2008]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment Management and control sessions can be easily analysed to look for after-hours access that doesn't match normal usage patterns," Potter says, adding administrators might be surprised to find out how much peer-to-peer and instant messaging traffic... [10 Dec 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.11.07
Round-Up The review will probably be headed up by a knight of the realm or stuffy old peer who thinks a compact disc is a lower back problem. The idea is probably that the Kindle will ape the highly successful iTunes-iPod model by allowing the user to... [23 Nov 2007]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment Once the preserve of bedroom-bound teenagers, malware is now big business and aimed at financial gain rather than peer group recognition. Unsurprisingly, they had an immediate and devastating impact on spam levels and in 2003 the volume of spam... [19 Nov 2007]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile Last year with Janus Friis, Zennström founded Joost, a video-on-demand service, which promises to bring together TV and the interactive power of the internet and has already won plaudits for its interface and peer-to-peer architecture. [12 Oct 2007]
Good and bad year for comms
AS Analysis But it is Zennström who stands for a new world of communications, very much based on peer-to-peer, supernodes and the like. For one thing - to start at the top - there is the resurgence of John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems. [12 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... McInternet, FON in the UK, safety first, e-fraud...
Comment What about systems where no single individual has keys to all the encrypted files, such as the FreeNet P2P (peer-to-peer) project? How is anyone to know the depth of encryption? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to... [11 Oct 2007]
The Round-Up: 05.10.07
Round-Up At the time the world's favourite online bric-a-brac enabler said it saw great potential in using Skype's peer-to-peer voice over IP technology to connect buyers and sellers in the eBay marketplace. Cheery, cheeky popsters Radiohead have decided to... [05 Oct 2007]
Leader: BBC iPlayer broadband row - who's really to blame
Leader The specific issue seems to be that iPlayer is a peer-to-peer system so that it uploads and downloads data at the same time, making it potentially bandwidth-heavy. Claims by ISPs that the BBC should fund the extra bandwidth needed by users that... [16 Aug 2007]
Television 2.0 cometh
Comment To nail down some of the basics and peer out beyond the misty horizon that is IPTV, I turn to Wes Simpson, my trusted co-author of IPTV & Internet Video (Focal Press / Elsevier, 2007): In contrast, internet video uses PCs and their associated... [04 Jul 2007]
Do you know what's happening on your network?
Comment Alternatively employees might be downloading software from peer-to-peer sites in full knowledge of its illegality. And many companies are failing to control and identify issues on their networks such as productivity of staff. [28 Mar 2007]
3GSM Diary, day 4: Mobile's future killer apps?
Comment Among the issues still to be settled is how peer-to-peer NFC will work. One device which caught my eye came equipped with a breathalyser - the idea being that it could be used to monitor the booze levels of lorry drivers, for example. [15 Feb 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Mobile internet reality
Comment There are challenges with this - notably too much content to harvest and a difficulty in sorting wheat from chaff - but the peer review and selection in communities plays a part in keeping this under control. [11 Jan 2007]
VoIP takes hold with small businesses
Comment However, unlike most telephony services, Skype uses a peer-to-peer network of Skype users to deliver the calls rather than a service provider per se. It may be a truism but, nonetheless, voice over IP has the capacity to transform how companies... [17 Dec 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.10.06
Round-Up However, should they decide in a moment of madness to smash a bottle over a fellow drinker's head, say, or swing a wild haymaker or two in the direction of a peer, they will be ejected and their fingerprint will be remembered by the system as... [27 Oct 2006]
Keep updated for stories matching peer-to-peer in comment and analysis via RSS
