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Slipping Into The Peer-to-Peer Channel: Where Trends Begin
MediaPost Communications | 3 hours 49 minutes ago
Somewhere beneath the marketing radar, millions of users are online every day registering their desires on the massively popular peer-to-peer networks. Despite worries about content piracy, P2P technologies like Bittorrent and Gnutella have become enormously powerful channels for content swapping among the most connected and media hungry users.

Hurricane Electric's IPv6 network doubles
Network World | 3 hours 57 minutes ago
Hurricane Electric, a Fremont, Calif., ISP, will announce on Monday that its IPv6 network has doubled in size in less than a year -- a sign of how rapidly IPv6 traffic is increasing across the Internet.

Google's Chrome OS Hits BitTorrent
CIO Insight | 5 hours 24 minutes ago
Google's Chrome OS Hits BitTorrent Chrome OS, the operating system that Google released to open source yesterday, has been compiled and posted for download on several file-sharing sites, Internet searches showed.

Google's Chrome OS hits BitTorrent
Computerworld | 5 hours 48 minutes ago
Users compile source code, craft disk images that can be run in a virtual machine, post to file-sharing sites

Digital divide over filesharing plans
MediaGuardian | 8 hours 45 minutes ago
Digital economy bill proposals receive welcome from music and film, but anger from ISPs and privacy campaigners

Why are cyberlockers suddenly such a problem, Lord Mandelson?
Guardian (London), The | 10 hours 56 minutes ago
Companies offering online storage know that they can be used to store illicit files. But they don't need extra powers to root them out.

ISPA slams Mandy's copyright land grab
Register (U.K.), The | 11 hours 29 minutes ago
Claims from minister Stephen Timms this morning that the Digital Economy Bill has widespread support have been thrown into question, after the Internet Service Providers Association insisted it is strongly opposed to aspects of the legislation.

Treasury secretary defends government's online piracy plans
Guardian (London), The | 12 hours 19 minutes ago
Stephen Timms claims piracy powers necessary to 'future-proof' government proposals to safeguard the UK's creative industriesRead the government's statement on the billRead the digital economy bill

What Does It Mean When Procurement Goes Green?
Reuters | 13 hours 56 minutes ago
By John Davies - Greener World Media Green purchasing by companies is up in a down economy.

eBay completes sale of Skype for $2 bn
Financial Express (India), The | 14 hours 55 minutes ago
America's largest online marketplace eBay said it has completed the sale of its communications unit-- Skype-- to an investor group for USD 2 billion.

Filesharing laws to hit websites and newsgroups too
Register (U.K.), The | 15 hours 40 minutes ago
The government is planning to award itself powers to change copyright law almost at will, in expectation that new anti-peer-to-peer laws will drive infringement to other services such as Rapidshare and newsgroups.

Arlington s peer mentoring program targets freshmen
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas) | 21 hours 47 minutes ago
By TRACI SHURLEY tshurley@star-telegram.com Michelle Rosario and Mariela Villa have been paired in Arlington schools? new peer-to-peer mentoring program for only a few months, but Rosario, a Sam Houston High School senior, hasn?t wasted any time in trying to be a good influence.