It doesn't take much these days to elevate a technology to hot-button status, complete with its own lingo and a catchy buzzword. After a few swiped songs, nifty names such as Napster and MP3 pop up.

Peer-to-peer technologies have become associated with piracy in most people’s minds – but P2P is a computing model that has many above-board applications. The basic premise of P2P is that computing, ...

Rather than compete directly with Zelle and other peer-to-peer payment networks, the recently launched CHUCK network plans to position itself as a P2P network that eases money transfers for users, ...

Does your business need reliable, dedicated and secure data transmission between multiple and often remote sites? Well, point-to-point (P2P or PtP) wireless networks have a unique advantage: They ...

Peer-to-peer networking has caused a dramatic increase in Internet traffic. Today, the major P2P user is the consumer, and the major application is media file sharing. Music, movies and the like now ...

On Wednesday, federal officials announced the first criminal enforcement action targeting individuals committing copyright infringement on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks using cutting edge file-sharing ...

Anomali Labs has found a new kind of malware(they call it IPStorm) that is controlled by peer-to-peer (p2p) communications rather than by a client-server model. The ...

Despite its formidable reach, the social-media platform X faces a steep climb to achieve its goal of launching a peer-to-peer payments service, according to payments experts. X, formerly known as ...

Peer-to-peer computing is allowing blockchain to aggregate unused compute cycles, storage space and network bandwidth while rewarding those who offer up excess capacity. One analyst called the ...

A new service from Mastercard is here, and it offers crypto users a chance to take advantage of its peer-to-peer (P2P) network to send and receive digital assets across various countries. It allows ...

A new malware campaign aimed at Windows machines features a novel technique to control the resulting botnet, with the group behind it hiding their communications using a P2P network. Dubbed IPStorm – ...

Discover how the peer-to-peer economy differs from traditional capitalism, emphasizing direct transactions without intermediaries for increased efficiency and innovation.