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 ...

Adesso Systems this week released a free client application that lets users quickly and easily share and update the information they use every day, such as documents, PDF files, spreadsheets, photos ...

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, ...

Unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing on corporate networks appears to be far more widespread than many companies realize. In a study of P2P file sharing at 560 companies, Ottawa-based AssetMetrix ...

The House Committee on Commerce and Energy will hold a markup hearing Wednesday on a bill designed to make it safer for consumers to use peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software. The Informed P2P User ...

Oversight committee chair also pledges an investigation into whether vendors can be held responsible for failing to install adequate privacy safeguards. The leader of a House oversight panel on ...

Torrenting itself is legal and generally safe since it’s just a peer-to-peer file-sharing method. However, downloading or sharing copyrighted movies, games, software, or music without permission is ...

Popular, commercially available file-sharing programs would be generally banned from federal systems under a bill proposed in the House. Government employees and contractors would generally be ...

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 ...