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Skype: Telepresence for the masses

Video conferencing accounted for 28 percent of all Skype calls last year. Michael Kassner discusses why Skype should be considered a telepresence platform and how the multimedia technology of Skype has improved. by Michael Kassner

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Michael Kassner, Telepresence, Peer To Peer (P2P), Corporate Communications, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Internet, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-06-29

P2P is under attack, but is it attacking you?

A great deal is said about P2P in the media, and the government is starting to truly weigh in as P2P has been in the courts, the subject of FCC and FTC hearings, and Congressional action is on the table now. Unfortunately, nobody who knows how much P2P traffic...

Tags: P2P, Attack, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Andy Moon

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Botnets: German researchers fight back

In a recent post of mine, "Kraken: The biggest, baddest botnet yet," there wasn't much good news. In fact, reports describing the potential for harm and economic loss are downright scary. There maybe a glimmer of hope though. I just finished reading a Techworld article, "Researchers ‘poison' Storm botnet" by...

Tags: Researcher, Bot, Peer To Peer (P2P), Productivity, Internet, Michael Kassner

Blog posts 2008-04-29

P2P networks share business data along with music

In an effort to see just what could be harvested from a P2P network, reporter Avi Baumstein of InformationWeek went on a fishing expedition. The results were surprising and should be seen by system administrators at the corporate level as a cautionary tale. Using LimeWire Pro...

Tags: LimeWire, Network, P2P, Music, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Tricia Liebert

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Legal applications of BitTorrent

BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file sharing protocol, and its implementation software have received much ire from the content creation industries. However, there are certain fundamental aspects underlying this technology that could solve many issues relating to computing on a wide scale. The IT department at INHOLLAND University used...

Tags: BitTorrent, P2P, Legal Application, Peer To Peer (P2P), Vertical Industries, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2008-03-11

MPAA says they made a mistake in college piracy estimates

According to a study by the MPAA, college students using P2P account for 44 percent of the industries losses. If you listen to Newsweek, that number is closer to 15 percent. From Newsweek: The MPAA has used the study to pressure colleges to take tougher...

Tags: MPAA, P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Strategy, Internet, Management, Tricia Liebert

Blog posts 2008-01-23

Majority of Internet bandwidth consumed by P2P services

New research from German deep packet inspection gear maker Ipoque shows that P2P traffic consumes anywhere between 49 and 89 percent of all Internet traffic in the day. At night, it can spike up to an astonishing 95 percent. Ipoque gathered over three petabytes of information...

Tags: Bandwidth, P2P, Traffic, Encryption, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-11-28

French accord could herald the end of file-sharing

While you folks in the United States were having your Black Friday last week, an anti-piracy accord was being signed in France that could have far-ranging repercussions where file-sharing is concerned. What it means is this, according to The Register: The plan has been drawn up...

Tags: Accord, France, U.K., File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-11-25

Cox does a Comcast on eDonkey

If you understood the title, then you are indeed up-to-date on your IT news. In case you didn't get it though - Like Comcast, Cox Communications is pulling the same trick of hindering peer-to-peer traffic, if a report by The Register is to be believed. Excerpt...

Tags: Comcast Corp., P2P, eDonkey, Cox Communications Inc., Robb Topolski, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-11-20

Appliance by Exinda Networks filters recreational traffic

Exinda Networks hopes to gain a foothold in the North American market with its ability to classify "recreational traffic" such as Skype and BitTorrent on enterprise networks. The new feature will arrive as a firmware upgrade, due to be released in a few weeks time, for Exinda's...

Tags: BitTorrent, Traffic, Layer 7 Technologies Inc., WANs, Peer To Peer (P2P), Networking, Network Technology, Internet, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-11-18

P2P video piracy rampant in South Korea

For South Korean university student Seong-sun, accessing peer-to-peer video services is a daily norm. His laptop is his entertainment gateway, allowing him to access to a dizzying array of pirated TV shows and movies distributed via the Internet. According to CNET ZDNet News: Seong-sun...

Tags: P2P, South Korea, Piracy, Video, Corporate Communications, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-11-17

Demonoid gone for good?

A while ago I talked about the pressures torrent tracker Web sites are coming under. In recent times Web sites hosting torrent trackers that enable users to initiate peer to peer (p2p) downloads have been heavily pressed by the Motion Picture Association of America MPAA and the Canadian Recording...

Tags: MPAA, Canadian Recording Industry Association, Web Site, Demonoid.com, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Justin Fielding

Blog posts 2007-11-10

U.K. government in support of anti-file-sharing laws?

Lord Triesman, the parliamentary Under Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills told the BBC's iPM programme that the U.K. government may consider legislation against illegal file-sharing on the Internet. An excerpt from the article: While he said that the government had no interest in "hounding 14-year-olds...

Tags: U.K., Music, Government, Vertical Industries, Peer To Peer (P2P), Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-10-29

Comcast on BitTorrent: We're only delaying, not blocking

Comcast is left juggling a potential public relations disaster in the wake of a report last week by Associated Press, which states that the company blocks some of its Internet traffic. It is a topic that TechRepublic members will not find surprising, as we reported on it...

Tags: BitTorrent, Comcast Corp., Internet, Data Management, Public Relations, Peer To Peer (P2P), Marketing, Corporate Communications, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-10-24

BitTorrent users take another hit

Some of the Internet's largest torrent trackers have been taken offline or severely cut back this month. For those of you who don't know what a torrent tracker is, it's a server which helps BitTorrent users to locate peers for a download via the BitTorrent protocol. ...

Tags: MPAA, BitTorrent, Statement, Obviously Copyright Infringement, Demonoid, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Justin Fielding

Blog posts 2007-09-26

E-mails of "anti-P2P" company leaked on the Web

MediaDefender, a company that protects copyrighted content from illegal file sharing, saw its internal e-mail leaked over the Web. The mails specify several negative tactics that the firm was planning to use to curb the sharing of content online. A quote from a...

Tags: Web, anti-P2P, P2P, E-mail, Peer To Peer (P2P), Channel Management, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-09-17

BitTorrent plugin for Mozilla Firefox

The UK/Prague-based open-source firm AllPeers has developed a BitTorrent plugin for Mozilla Firefox that lets users search and share files through torrents in a process as simple as downloading a file via the browser. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol that...

Tags: Opera Software, Mozilla Firefox, BitTorrent, P2P, Mozilla Corp., Plug-in, Peer To Peer (P2P), Web Browsers, Internet, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-09-15

P2P technology on mobile phones can make phone calls free

TerraNet, the Swedish firm, is testing a peer-to-peer technology that is based on VoIP to enable mobiles to act as peers and nodes on a network. The could result in technology to establish phone calls without the need of base towers, which would also prove a boon for communication in...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, P2P, Handset, Cell Phone, TerraNet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Internet, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Finally, after 7 years, the Napster trial ends

On August 31, 2007, Bertelsmann AG, a German media company, settled for a payment of $130 million to the National Music Publishers Association, bringing to a close the Napster lawsuit that started in the year 2000. Napster, the company that popularized peer-to-peer sharing of content over the Web,...

Tags: Media Company, Bertelsmann AG, P2P, Napster Inc., Peer To Peer (P2P), Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-09-01

Windows update triggers Skype outage

Folks, the word is out on the official Skype Heartbeat Blog. The outage that started on Thursday, August 16, 2007, was "triggered by a massive restart of [Skype users'] computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Update, Network, P2P, Skype Technologies S.A., Outage, Peer To Peer (P2P), Microsoft Windows, Networking, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-08-20