No one could doubt that peer-to-peer lending (or P2P Lending) has landed big time in 2010, but it looks as if the best is just about to come.
Eliot Van Buskirk | Posted 08.07.2011
In the year 2000, when MP3.com launched a service that allowed people to stream their own music from "the cloud" by authenticating it with a CD, the l...
Posted 07.16.2011
CORRECTION: Information contained in the Torrentfreak article to which this post referred was incorrect. The RIAA has not released a statement specifi...
Max Keiser | Posted 05.25.2011
The Egyptian revolution was definitely enabled by social networking sites. I find it difficult to understand the positions of those in the blogosphere who fail to see this point.
Thrillist | Posted 05.25.2011
Video games can be fun, but buying them can really drain a bank account, although maybe if your mom worked a little harder you wouldn't have to sacr...
Eliot Van Buskirk | Posted 05.25.2011
If YouTube is a big part of how you listen to music these days, this simple little tweak can improve your listening experience considerably.
Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011
Pioneering P2P file sharing platform BitTorrent has 100 million active users, the company announced on Monday. In November at the NewTeeVee Live ev...
Brett King | Posted 05.25.2011
The biggest risk to the finance sector today is not from other banks, it's the growing gap between the institution and the customer.
The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011
A BitTorrent-based DNS system has been proposed to combat the government's ability to seize domains at will. Reacting to recent seizures, like this w...
Rick Carnes | Posted 05.25.2011
The jury in the latest trial of illegal file sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset has awarded the plantiffs, Capitol records et al., an award of 1.5 million do...
Brett King | Posted 05.25.2011
The concept that banking is necessary, but banks are not has often been debated. The question of whether technology advances and new business model re...
Brett King | Posted 05.25.2011
The cloud is increasingly critical for SMEs not only for facilitating business, but also for enabling closer connections with partners, integrating shared services, and improving payments and cash flow.
Jason Schmitt | Posted 05.25.2011
The plea from the music industry, which seems to have only gross sales in mind, is that if you illegally download you are hurting the artists themselves. This logic is far from true.
Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011
With the imminent launch of Flash Player 10.1, Adobe will provide publishers with the tools to dramatically reduce bandwidth costs with a new p...
Brett King | Posted 05.25.2011
Why do we use cash? Why do we use banks? The basic premise is that banks are necessary to create a flow of cash and enable commerce, with built in pro...
Rep. Edolphus Towns | Posted 05.25.2011
We have allowed P2P software developers to voluntarily regulate themselves but they have failed. Congress must act now to implement the proper safeguards to protect the American people.
Information Week | Thomas Calburn | Posted 05.25.2011
The largest source of traffic is Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which accounts for 6% of all Internet traffic globally, according to Arbor Networks' 2009 Intern...
guardian.co.uk | Katie Allen | Posted 05.25.2011
Record labels are pointing to the dramatic rise in music sales in Sweden, just months after the country introduced anti-piracy laws, as evidence of wh...
Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
Peer-to-peer software, by itself, did not cause the confidential Congressional document to be leaked to the press. Certainly people are not perfect and some data breaches will still occur even with better policies and technology.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011
Watching the AMA defends its turf on issues like doctor reimbursement is like watching the RIAA file copyright lawsuits against teenagers, even as its business model collapses around it.
WindowsSecrets.com | Brian Livingston | Posted 05.25.2011
Many people who watched live streaming video of the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama on Jan. 20 may not realize that their PC was used to s...
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: QTrax, the free P2P music service, made a big splash today by announcing that it was launching with the support of all four big music labels....
Brett King | Posted 02.18.2012