Joost launched an iPhone app over the holiday break, making its P2P web TV service mobile. With the app, users can watch Joost’s content library of more than 46,000 videos on the go for free. The service streams video over Wi-Fi connections and not over the phone’s EDGE or 3G network. The content available is [...]
According to a forum post by uTorrent developers, the new uTorrent alpha client may be able to evade throttling by adding uTP (UDP torrenting) functionality and enabling it by default. The changes mean better flow control, and assuming plenty of users use it, a potential end to the TCP RST packet attacks Comcast used (and [...]
Dr. Lawrence Roberts, a co- founder of ARPANET, the predecessor of today’s internet, recently spoke at a conference on how the Internet will look in 10 years time.He was speaking at October’s World Hi-Tech Forum – Focus on India, organised by the London-based British Institute of Technology and e-Commerce (BITE).
Businesses are more reliant than [...]
Video game maker Atari has temporarily stopped targeting alleged video game file sharers in the United Kingdom, because its working relationship with a London law firm has ended.Atari chose London-based Davenport Lyons to help sue peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharers who allegedly were sharing Race07 and other Atari video games through BitTorrent.
Each person who received a [...]
Researchers at Chicago’s Northwestern University have developed a system that calls on users’ experience to provide warnings on Internet traffic problems. The system would give a heads up about slow response times, even where there is no central management system.Their Network Early Warning System (NEWS), which latches on to a popular BitTorrent client, is designed [...]
The music industry’s requests for more personal information regarding the identity of several accused file-sharers have been shot down by a federal judge. Judge Nancy Gertner quashed a subpoena this week in the infamous London-Sire v. Does 1-4 case, saying that the IP addresses of three anonymous Boston University students could not be handed over [...]
Worlds, the pioneer and patented technology platform for 3D virtual communities announces that it completed a private placement of its common equity which raised $481,000 at a purchase price of $ .30 per share. “Worlds raised these funds to continue our restructure and operations. Given the current market conditions we are pleased in the faith [...]
