Peer-to-peer technologies have become associated with piracy in most people’s minds – but P2P is a computing model that has many above-board applications. The basic premise of P2P is that computing, ...

Peer-to-peer applications are best explained by contrasting with client/server. In client/server applications, like Lotus Notes, clients communicate with each other, but must first connect with the ...

Whenever you connect two computers together, either with cables or wirelessly, you have created a computer network. When the computers on the network can work independently of each other, it is ...

Q: Since P2P started being used as a buzzword, it has taken on a very wide range of meanings, so I'd like to see a definition of exactly what it means here. A: As Wikipedia says, it means 'computers ...

Traditionally, peer-to-peer (P2P) applications have been associated with pirated media content. But serious developers and architects have been looking at P2P architectures for several years as a way ...

Imagine iTunes shared music libraries for video, and you've got Lanovision, a new P2P video streaming client created by one Patrick Fitzsimmons. PVRblog had occasion to have a bit of interview with ...