AOL division, time warner inc will use a peer-to-peer approach used in kaaza and Bittorrent in delivering high-definition Internet video to consumers next .  AOL like other ISP is facing problems such as congested broadband pipes. And 93 percent of those pipes are owned by cable and telephone companies wanting to offer their own [...]
Peers within a Peer-to-Peer network can provide a lot of various resources, e.g. information, disk space, memory space or computing power, and they can deliver different services, e.g. create or provide files, compute complex calculations or act as a required part of the network. To avoid “free-riding” on these resources, contents or services and to [...]
What is Document Management System (DMS) ? Originally, a document management system was a computer program (or set of programs) used to track and store images of paper documents. More recently, the term has been used to distinguish between imaging and records management systems that specialize in paper capture and records respectively. Document management systems [...]
With all the law suits and security being a concern, it is becoming more and more critical to know that you can trust the peer at the other end. Multiple applications have sprouted to make use of this concept like G2G and Aimster. I will focus in this post on Aimster Aimster is an instant [...]
With the increasing popularity of P2P, creative juices of people have started flowing. Now individuals are competing in terms of who can write the smallest P2P client. TinyP2P is a functional peer-to-peer file sharing application, written in fifteen lines of code, in the Python programming language. Ed Felten has written TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty [...]
This post has been long overdue. With so many P2P clients out there, sometimes it is hard to pick which one to go for…which is not surprising because I am too.. In addition, all the legal battles going on don’t help the cause either. A bunch of The P2P programs like Grokster have called it [...]
