Peer-to-peer computing is more than sharing music files. Indeed, beleaguered Napster is an example of just one area of P2P technology. A P2P network allows PCs to communicate directly with one another ...

Peer-to-peer has been called both the future of distributed computing and the Internet's great leveler. Unlike the hierarchical model of client-to-server computing, P2P connects all computing devices ...

Have you ever heard of Shawn Fanning? Probably not. But what about Napster, the Redwood City, Calif.-based company that gave Generation X the ability to trade music files from one PC to another over ...

“The vision I have for the Web is about anything being potentially connected to anything.” —Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web Tim Berners-Lee's original concept of an interactive Web is finding ...

If peer-to-peer applications become ubiquitous, they could break the existing business models of many Internet service providers and force them to raise their prices, experts said. Peer-to-peer ...

At the moment, the best-known example of a new frontier in Internet technology has been dogged by legal woes, and looks like … At the moment, the best-known example of a new frontier in Internet ...