The increasing usage of BitTorrent services has been a living nightmare for big industry publishers. The RIAA is one of the most notable opponents of BitTorrent sites due to Continue reading »

Spore, a Sim-like game about the evolution of creatures, was recently released as one of the most anticipated games of the year. Our initial impressions were high with the Continue reading »

With blazing fast speeds, college campuses are often used by students to download all the music they'd like. For the past few years the RIAA has been lurking around college Continue reading »

Google had a bad week in cloud computing, with serious downtime in Gmail, Blogger and Spreadsheet. Back in July it was Amazon that was embarrassed with their S3 outage. If Continue reading »

Wuala puts a new twist on cloud storage. While typical cloud storage services move your data onto servers managed by the provider, Wuala also uses disk space on other members' Continue reading »

Entrepreneurs have learned that pitching anything to investors with "we can beat Google at search" is the kiss of death. This is like pitching against Microsoft in the PC world Continue reading »

LimeWire has just opened their online music store in beta form at store.limewire.com. The store which is reported to currently have a catalog of 500,000 tunes, features DRM-free MP3s encoded Continue reading »

Since last Spring when I first heard about it, I've been patiently waiting to get my hands on Livestation, a streaming television service from UK-based Skinkers, which is based on Continue reading »

Written by Can Erten and edited by Richard MacManus. This is the second in a 2-part series exploring the world of P2P on the Web. Part 1 was a general Continue reading »

Metalink is a new technology that makes it easier and faster to get large files. It's kind of like a playlist for such files (they can be FTP, HTTP, or Continue reading »