The House Committee on Commerce and Energy will hold a markup hearing Wednesday on a bill designed to make it safer for consumers to use peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software.
There are a number of Web services that allow you to collaborate on tabular or database data using nothing other than your browser. You can even upload your desktop spreadsheet to get started. I look at four such services.
There are various alternatives to attaching large files in an email message, and I review some of the services that are out there and their limitations.
Box.net used to be just an online file storage service, but lately it has become this Swiss Army Knife of integrated Web services that they call OpenBox. Here are just a few of the more interesting things that you can do with the service.
David Reis, director of IT security and policy at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, has been on what he calls a "nine-month journey" to figure out exactly how he's going to make sure his school doesn't break the law -- even though they were never in trouble in the first place.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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File sharing: Send large files without emailing them
How to share files between Windows and Mac
As expected, Facebook halts The Pirate Bay links
P2P bill could regulate browsers, cloud computing
Battle against file sharing starts in Norway
Jury orders music swapper to pay $1.92 million
Analysis: $1.92M fine in music piracy case could hurt RIAA
Universities Cope with New Anti-Piracy Requirement
Using Box.net for online storage
How to share web databases