P2P News

In February, BlackBerry together with Monitise Asia Pacific and Permata Bank of Indonesia, launched BBM Money in Indonesia, that allows for P2P money transfer and mobile payments.

Shawn Fanning , who developed the peer-to-peer file sharing platform Napster, has unloaded his penthouse at the Infinity.

Yes, Virginia, there is a limit to what Verizon will let you do with FiOS' "unlimited" data plan.

Around 9:00 Wednesday morning, Indiana State Police and detectives from the Indiana Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force executed a search warrant in the 5000 block of East Sycamore Street in Evansville after receiving information the tenant of the apartment, 46-year-old Jonathan Henderson, was allegedly involved in sharing child ... (more)

Mobile Money leader Monitise has announced the early success of BBM Money, the P2P mobile payments service launched through its Joint Venture with Astra International in partnership with Indonesian financial institution Bank Permata and BlackBerry .

A federal judge has dismissed a movie company's Internet piracy complaint against 34 Oregonians, saying the company was unfairly using the court's subpoena power in a "reverse class-action suit" to save on legal expenses and possibly to intimidate defendants into paying thousands of dollars for viewing a movie that can be bought or rented for less ... (more)

Bloomberg: - Bernanke says Fed may taper buys. - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke told Congress this morning the Fed may cut the pace of bond purchases at the next few meetings if policy makers see indications of sustained economic growth.

Investing in peer-to-peer loans can provide you double digit annual returns. However, you need to be prepared for defaults.

Investing in peer-to-peer loans can provide you double digit annual returns. However, you need to be prepared for defaults.

Few phenomena have been so widely discussed yet remain so puzzling as the world of Bitcoins.

Paying back that 20 dollars your buddy spotted you last night will soon be as easy as sending an email.

With confidence in banks reaching an all time low in the United States and abroad, many are seeking an alternative to the age old banking system.

Would you back the nation's graduates to produce a return on your money? A new firm is offering to pay healthy rates of interest if you are willing to risk your money to fund loans direct to graduates.

PROS AND CONS: At times, information-sharing systems have been used to engage in illegal activities such as copyright infringement, child exploitation and obscenity, and computer hacking Peer-to-peer networks allow internet users to link their computers with other computers around the world.

HACKETTSTOWN - A registered sex offender employed at a law office in Paterson, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Newark on May 17 for allegedly possessing and distributing images of child sex abuse over the Internet, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

While looking through the programme of the ongoing Sight and Sound Festival , i found out about The Pirate Cinema , an installation that makes use of a data interception software of the same name to reveal in real time the hidden activity and the geography of peer-to-peer file sharing but also the aesthetic dimension of P2P architectures.

Deep packet inspection, or DPI, is a form of computer network packet filtering that examines the data part of a packet as it passes an inspection point, searching for defined criteria to decide what, if any, action should be taken by the network on that packet.

Big Daddy Kane, 9th Wonder, Needlz, Benzino, Statik Selektah and Adrian Younge weigh in on the role of technology in Hip Hop.

A federal judge has dismissed a movie company's Internet piracy complaint against 34 Oregonians, saying the company was unfairly using the court's subpoena power in a "reverse class-action suit" to save on legal expenses and possibly to intimidate defendants into paying thousands of dollars for viewing a movie that can be bought or rented for less ... (more)

A new study, believed to be the first ever of its size, has determined that game piracy is widespread but not to the extent that the industry claims.