All the stories tagged with file sharing
BitTorrent Sync Alpha Unlimited File Sharing For All
04/23/2013, BitTorrent Sync (version alpha) is now available for all to use (for free). Prior to this a pre-alpha version was circulating, but the access was limited to 20,000 users. If you are not familiar with BitTorrent Sync, it is a [...]
The Pirate Bay Becomes #1 File-Sharing Website
04/01/2013, The Pirate Bay moving its servers to the U.S. to become “The Freedom Bay“ is obviously the popular torrent-tracking website’s April Fools’ Day joke, but its popularity over the years has been slowly rising with it reaching the top of the [...]
ProxToMe: Sending Files To Nearby People Made Easier
02/20/2013, ProxToMe is an iOS app that lets you send files to people who are nearby you. The cool feature of the app is that the person who you need to send the file to, doe not have to be in [...]
Soonr Workplace: Collaboration app with document scan, HD video playback and Microsoft Office
02/08/2013, I published about Soonr a while ago when the company was selected by Business 2.0 as one of the 25 Startups to Watch in 2007. Before the iPhone was launched in June 2007, mobile applications were not very common and [...]
Carbonite Currents Makes Files Accessible To Mobiles and Collaborators
01/22/2013, You may have heard of Carbonite as a cloud backup company, a business in which it is quite successful. Carbonite Currents uses the same data-storage technology to offer a completely different service: make your desktop PC files (of any type) [...]
Appeals Court rules Jammie Thomas must pay $222,000
09/11/2012, Online file-sharing is considered illegal and an infringement of intellectual copyrights of the content that is being shared, if it is not available publicly and for free. However, very few cases related to online file sharing have surfaced in the [...]
Tribler file-sharing technology cannot be taken down
02/09/2012, The efforts of governments around the world in trying to deliver a knock out blow to file-sharing sites might eventually amount to nothing, as there is a new kid in town known as Tribler. The creators of this file-sharing software [...]
Filesonic no longer shares files
01/23/2012, Last week it was reported that MegaUpload, one of the world’s largest file sharing sites was shut down and its founders charged for breaking the law. While other file sharing sites haven’t been directly affected by the take down, it [...]
YouSendit: New Apps for iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac
12/13/2011, I have been using YouSendit for a while now, for sending very large files (up to 2 GB!) over the internet when my email client could not handle it. The key feature is the ability to send files very quickly [...]
WD 2go Pro Mobile App for Personal Cloud
09/13/2011, Today, Western Digital is introducing its WD 2go Pro mobile app for its My Book Live personal cloud storage solution. My Book Live drive is a NAS (Network Attached Storage) that connects to the home network remotely accessible from inside [...]
Apple patent reveals new way to share content between iOS devices
07/08/2011, In yet another patent filed by Apple, this one reveals the company’s plans to introduce a new form of content sharing between iOS devices. What so new about content sharing, you ask? Well, how about if you could share content [...]
Pogoplug becomes pure software, opens DIY floodgates
06/22/2011, Pogoplug is often known as the cute “plug” that transforms a USB hard drive into a network attached storage (NAS) with a powerful (yet, super easy to use) web media server. More recently, it has become the force behind a [...]
Movie studio uses BitTorrent to officially distribute film
05/02/2011, If there’s one thing beneficial about the pirate community, it’s the speed of which things can be spread with their services. So when it came to pushing out and promoting a new, relatively unknown movie, a movie production studio called [...]
