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 ...

Making files accessible between devices, while convenient, sometimes comes with privacy trade-offs or additional costs. Free cloud storage quotas run out too quickly and not everyone has the skills to ...

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, ...

Update (Nov. 27, 6:17 am UTC): This article has been updated to add comments from LimeWire chief operating officer Marcus Fiestl. LimeWire, a peer-to-peer file-sharing site that was popular in the ...

Downloading files via torrenting will introduce you to some interesting terminology. From all the talk of leeches, seeds, and swarms, you would think you were in a grassy meadow in springtime instead ...

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 ...

TL;DR: Napster, initially a peer-to-peer file-sharing program launched in 1999, became famous for sharing MP3s but faced legal issues for copyright infringement. After bankruptcy, it transformed into ...