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Music industry battles Spanish computer buff
Jun 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Pablo Soto's story may be every computer whiz kid's dream - or nightmare. After leaving school at 16 to support his family, he managed to eke out a living doing what he loves most: designing computer ...
Software improves p2p privacy by hiding in the crowd
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Apr 08, 2009 |
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Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have identified a new "guilt-by-association" threat to privacy in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems that would enable an eavesdropper ...
Peer-to-peer heart monitoring
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Mar 09, 2009 |
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The possibility of remote monitoring for chronically ill patients will soon become a reality. Now, researchers in South Africa and Australia have devised a decentralized system to avoid medical data overload. They describe ...
P2P traffic control
Jan 07, 2009 |
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Could a concept from information technology familiar to online file sharers be exploited to reduce road congestion and even traffic accidents? That is the question answered in the affirmative by researchers in California, ...
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P2P comes to the aid of audiovisual search (w/ Video)
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Nov 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new 'query by example' methods, built on peer-to-peer ...
Self-managing internet applications flex their muscles
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Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project that incubates self-managing internet applications is paying off. It has inspired a Wikipedia that?s better than the original and super-efficient streaming video, with more to ...
NJ man is first to be charged with Web name theft
Aug 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A northern New Jersey man is charged with stealing a prime piece of Internet real estate and reselling it to basketball player Mark Madsen in one of the nation's first prosecutions of a suspected domain name thief.
Community-driven, open source solution for B2B transactions
Jul 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new open source, Web 2.0-inspired solution for building and managing business relationships online promises to level the playing field for small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Researchers enhance spam call filtering
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Apr 03, 2009 |
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Researchers in Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT are developing a new system for filtering spam calls in a flexible way. Spam calls (junk calls or Spam for Internet Telephony, SPIT) are unwanted calls often ...
Internet Growth Follows Moore's Law Too
Jan 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Originally, Moore’s Law described the number of transistors that can fit on an integrated circuit, which doubles approximately every 18 months. Now, a team of researchers from China has discovered ...
Free software gets an education
Nov 12, 2008 |
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Companies, organisations and citizens spend billions a year on licensing fees for proprietary software. Could that money not be put to better use developing free software alternatives and local expertise?
Harnessing network anarchy for the common good
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 31, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Anarchy may be the bane of political conservatives, but on the internet it is the essence of the information superhighway.
The 160-mile download diet: Local file-sharing drastically cuts network load
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Aug 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since Bram Cohen invented BitTorrent, Web traffic has never been the same. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, however, is a matter of debate.
Keeping up with your peers, securely
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 21, 2008 |
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Mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) applications allow a team or group to create new levels of ad hoc co-operation and collaboration around a specific, real-time goal. But developing compelling and secure applications is a challenge. ...
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