WiFi Alliance Announces WiFi Direct Spec
The WiFi Alliance, that governing body that argues for years about, eventually ratifies, and certifies official WiFi specification, is about to make the peer-to-peer connected world a bit easier. It has just announced that is nearing completion of a new "WiFi Direct" specification for peer-to-peer communications.
Opera delivers Unite beta, touts in-browser P2P
Opera Software today released the beta of Opera Unite, a platform for authoring peer-to-peer (P2P) and Web server-based applications that it believes will reinvent the Web.
What's replacing P2P, BitTorrent as pirate hangouts?
Driven by increased crackdowns on BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, software pirates are fast-moving their warez to file-hosting Web sites.
Opinion: P2P law would do nothing but make Congress feel good
In response to some incidents in which peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing caused sensitive information to show up on computers that it shouldn't be on, Congress reasonably decided to hold hearings in anticipation of actions it might take that would prevent future compromises. Unfortunately, one of the actions that Congress has taken is to consider passage of the most useless law imaginable.
House bill seeking government P2P ban gets boost
Tiversa has submitted 200 more examples of secret government documents it accessed via peer-to-peer networks used by government workers.
Esther Schindler
If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly
claird
SVG a graphics format for 21st century
pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?
jfruh
Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
mikelgan
What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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