The Distributed Computing Industry Association's P4P workgroup is devising a new protocol for what researchers describe as carrier-grade peer-to-peer file transfer systems. Verizon reports that a ...

The new technology has been in open beta during the past months. Now, it seems that the development group is done with the testing and just announced in a press release the cross-brand service is ...

In a bold, technologically retrograde move that will strike fear into anyone who surfed the internet before the advent of DSL and cable, Microsoft Research has devised an acoustic file transfer ...

Vivo, Oppo, and Xiaomi have formed an alliance to enable their users to transfer files between their mobile devices, without the need to download third-party apps or consume network data. The data ...

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, ...

Strada Connect lets remote editors access local media anywhere in the world — no cloud upload, no file transfer. Available ...

Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo founded a consortium for fast file transfers between smartphones in mid-2019. Their proprietary peer-to-peer communication protocol is supposed to make our life much easier, just ...

Ever since Napster found its way into every college dorm room in 1999, the defenders of intellectual property have been perplexed at how to best deal with peer-to-peer file transfer. Last week's news ...