Peer-to-peer goes legitimate August 17, 2006
In most countries, the music industry is taking song-swappers to court. But the sheer demand for downloading is forcing record labels, and now movie companies, to work with online retailers to offer legitimate alternatives.
hile illegally sharing copyrighted music on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is still popular, these new sites are attracting buyers who want a safer, legal way to download songs for less than a pound or a dollar.
With the advent of faster broadband speeds, the illegal swappers are not just after music.
Click here for more details
Source: BBC
Email This PostPeer-to-Peer Internet Television: Cybersky-TV May 17, 2006
The medium that in itself has probably had the major impact on cultural life in the past 50 years, television, is about to be deeply transformed.
From a medium that has been driven from its inception by mass production and distribution economics, we are witnessing a transformation into something altogether different from what we have been trained to expect.
Not only television as we know it is being decoupled from time and time-based schedules and programming.
It is also being turned upside down and inside out by opening itself to the contribution and influence of programming being produced outside of traditional large production …
Email This PostMicrosoft moves on Google ads May 4, 2006
And their new Microsoft adCenter self-serve Net advertising business has a big edge, they believe, says eWEEK.
It, “claims that no other search advertising program steers ads to customers based on day of the week and time of day, a specific geographic location.”
Would-be users leave a credit card number and Microsoft then charges a non-refundable $5, says the story and, “From there, adCenter is very similar to Google’s AdSense.
“Each lets someone bid against other in order to have their advertisement accompany search results for a particular search term. Each time someone clicks on the ad, Google, Microsoft et al …
Get ready for corporate P2P apps
Most corporate networkers believe P2P, with its ability to “hog” bandwidth and its myriad security issues, is a consumer phenomenon. This is a misconception that in the future may be the undoing of the corporate network. P2P network applications such as KaZaA or Napster may not have a place in the corporate environment, but the same cannot be said for BitTorrent’s File Sharing technology, currently being used for Linux software distribution, and Groove Networks’ Virtual Office application, designed for shared workspace/online collaboration.
The use of BitTorrent and Groove software currently does not impose a significant bandwidth demand on corporate networks. But …
Email This PostSynergy between Peer-to-Peer and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks April 1, 2006
I came across and very good research paper which talks about the a synergy between peerto-peer (p2p) overlay networks for the Internet and mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) connecting mobile nodes communicating with each other via multi-hop wireless links – both share the key characteristics of selforganization and decentralization, and both need to solve the same fundamental problem, that is, how to provide connectivity in a decentralized, dynamic environment.
The reasrchers have proposed Dynamic P2P Source Routing (DPSR), a new routing protocol for MANETs that exploits the synergy between p2p and MANETs for increased scalability. By integrating Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) …
Email This PostBack In Action March 30, 2006
Hey Guys, I apologize for such a long delay in adding a new post to the blog. I was travelling on a business trip and just got back into town last night. I do have some thoughts that I wanted to share with you guys and will be adding a blog tonight
Amit G
Email This PostMobility Management in P2P Wireless Networks March 17, 2006
Mobility management in wireless networks is an important task in order to keep connectivity with roaming users at anytime. Mobile IP1, which is a standard proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), can serve as the global mobility management in the future heterogeneous wireless networks.
Mobile IP uses the home agent (HA) and foreign agent (FA) to maintain the mobility of a mobile node (MN). The HA maintains the address binding of an MN, and the address binding is a mapping between the permanent home address to the care-of address (CoA) temporally borrowed from an FA.
Mobile IP suffers from several …
Email This PostJXME And Peer to Peer Mobility March 13, 2006
The purpose of JXTA-J2ME is to provide a JXTA compatible functionalities on constrained devices using the Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) and the Mobile Information Device Profile 2.0 (MIDP). The range of devices include the smart phones to PDAs. Using JXTA for J2ME, any MIDP device will be able to participate in P2P activities with other devices within the JXTA network.The JXTA-J2ME (JXME) project hosts the reference implementation of the JXTA protocols for J2ME. The first JXME (proxy based) implementation was done in J2ME/MIDP 1.0 to implement a compatible JXTA implementation for J2ME.Features supported in JXTA-JXME:
1. Discovery
*Â Pipes. An …
P2P in the Wireless World March 9, 2006
With the increasing dependence on mobile devices and mobility, it is not longer just getting access to you email and contacts on the phone that is required but the solutions need to go one step beyond and build on the P2P to mobile devices
P2P for Mobile Devices
The Vision
· Devices are becoming network-aware
o Bluetooth
o WiFi
o IrDA
o GSM, GPRS, UTMS
· …
Rethinking customer service March 4, 2006
Courtesy: Jon Udell’s Weblog
Voice calls must be able to recruit data channels, and vice versa. That way, an agent could attach an IM session to your voice call and push you the URL in real-time chat. It might even be appropriate to extend the data session with screen sharing, so the agent can watch and assist. If things still don’t work out and the whole matter must be referred to someone else, you’d like to be able to initiate voice or data communication — or both — in a context-preserving way. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]
This week’s …
| older posts »
