It doesn't take much these days to elevate a technology to hot-button status, complete with its own lingo and a catchy buzzword. After a few swiped songs, nifty names such as Napster and MP3 pop up.

Sun is betting on JXTA (JuXTApose), an open-source technology being developed by the Santa Clara, Calif.-based vendor under the JXTA Project, a Sun-funded initiative devoted to developing peer-to-peer ...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is generating a lot of excitement in some technical circles, but it is still a new technology looking for its niche. Much attention has been given to the P2P undertaking ...

The buzz around peer-to-peer computing in business has abated since it pegged the hype-o-meter a year and a half ago. That's when Groove Networks released its eponymous application. While Napster was ...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing applications allow users to download and share electronic files of all types and to use any computer as a server for file sharing requests. Currently, some of the more ...

European peer-to-peer network users are abandoning traditionally popular applications like Kazaa in favor of new P2P software, according to new research. A study released Tuesday by network equipment ...

Today, "peer to peer" is inextricably linked to file sharing. But another P2P was once the subject of great buzz. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist although the opinions expressed here are ...

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 networking has caused a dramatic increase in Internet traffic. Today, the major P2P user is the consumer, and the major application is media file sharing. Music, movies and the like now ...