Peer-to-peer applications are best explained by contrasting with client/server. In client/server applications, like Lotus Notes, clients communicate with each other, but must first connect with the ...

Whenever you connect two computers together, either with cables or wirelessly, you have created a computer network. When the computers on the network can work independently of each other, it is ...

Traditionally, peer-to-peer (P2P) applications have been associated with pirated media content. But serious developers and architects have been looking at P2P architectures for several years as a way ...

Supporters of peer-to-peer networking services (P2P) have had a rough year. Napster has been beleaguered by lawsuits from all sides since even before its service became widely known. And Napster users ...