July 21st, 2010 by Esteban Heinzen | No Comments
Nowadays, when many people have forgotten about its wonderful advantages and others have become part of the ill-intentioned discredit trend led by those who fight piracy, P2P technology gains predominance among leading companies worldwide. Facebook and Twitter are some of the companies that, using BitTorrent in particular, revived peer-to-peer in favor of their processes and [...]
June 18th, 2010 by Martín Díaz | 1 Comment
Thanks to the Internet, we don’t need a TV set to watch the matches of soccer 2010 World Cup South Africa live anymore. Watching them through video streaming is becoming more and more common thanks to programs like Uusee.
October 5th, 2009 by Betiana Venditti | 4 Comments
Among the most popular methods for downloading files from the Internet, we also have .torrents. The Bit Torrent protocol works when a file provider initially makes his/her file available to the network. This is called a seed and allows others, named peers, to connect and download the file. Some Bit Torrent clients have their own search engine to look for movies, CDs, games, applications and more, and some others do not, which means you´ll to have to look for them in torrent portals. There are lots of clients to choose from, making it very difficult for the average user to tell a difference among them, since some of them look exactly the same thus creating confusion among users. Here we take a look at some of the more popular ones. We introduce you to µTorrent, Azureus, BitComet and BitTorrent.
August 17th, 2009 by Betiana Venditti | 2 Comments
Gnutella is a file sharing network protocol based on a direct exchange of sources between clients and servers. This enables to download content from many servers, and to obtain better data transfer.
Gnutella is therefore an interesting option when downloading files from the Internet. Nowadays, we have lots of popular software like P2P that use Gnutella network. Next, we will talk about the five most popular: BearShare, iMP3Tunes, FrostWire and Cabos.