(1) A group of computers whereby each one can communicate with any other. See peer-to-peer network. (2) A network of computers that share the workload. A peer-to-peer network is a decentralized ...

Though not all peer-to-peer applications are evil, they are frequently recreational in nature. As such, they tend to generate network traffic that businesses often like to limit, usually by means of ...

A high-profile Internet phone group plans to use a little bit of Napster technology to harness PC networks to make free phone calls. The Free World Dialup project, for now being run under the auspices ...

It's now over two years since a few underground song-swapping services put peer-to-peer technology firmly at the forefront of the IT agenda. Napster's little bout of legal trouble, which kicked off ...

The concept behind peer-to-peer computing is relatively simple and not all that new. Instead of using big, expensive servers to crunch numbers and pricey storage networks to hold data, companies can ...

Astropad Studio, the app that is designed to turn the iPad into a drawing tablet for a Mac, is today gaining a major new networking feature that will cut down on latency. Peer-to-peer networking will ...

Chorus One, a provider of staking services for more than 40 blockchains and protocols including Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos and Polkadot, is joining a growing field of hosting service providers on the ...

Antivirus vendor McAfee is working on techniques designed to combat viruses engineered to spread through peer-to-peer applications such as the popular MP3 file sharing tools Napster and Gnutella. Peer ...

File sharing has new rival: a 21-year-old offers instruction on using Google's search engine to find music files. Greg Sandoval covers media and digital entertainment for CNET News. Based in New York, ...