KCeasy is a windows front end for the giFT filesharing system. Plugins allow giFT to support different kinds of filesharing networks.KCeasy currently supports the following networks:* Gnutella (Shareaza, Gnucleus, LimeWire, Bearshare, XoloX)* OpenFT (A new network developed by the giFT project)And of course KCeasy is completely spyware free and Open Source.I recommend everyone upgrade to [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – Virgin Radio and online music service Napster, combining one of the oldest music mediums with the newest, have teamed up to create the first UK radio program counting down the week’s most downloaded songs. Starting on Aug. 29, the Napster Online Music Chart will feature songs that are downloaded or streamed on [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Xbox version of “Doom 3,” the long-awaited PC video game recently released to wide acclaim, is not likely to be released in 2004 dealing a blow to enthusiastic game players who are anxiously awaiting it. id Software Chief Executive Todd Hollenshead told Reuters on Friday that his company is still [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to recall about 28,000 batteries used in its 15-inch PowerBook G4 laptop computers, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Thursday. The batteries, made by LG Chem Ltd. (051910.KS: Quote, Profile, Research) of South Korea, could overheat and pose a fire hazard, [...]

The new Piolet has been waited on looked forward to at least as much as the new WinMX. Finally there is a beta avalible to the public for testing.Change Log:Prettier & more configurable interface, XP themes compatible.New internal player with superior sound quality and accessories (visualizations and equalizer) and now “Undockable”, take it out and [...]

A federal appeals court has upheld a controversial court decision that said file-sharing software programs such as Grokster or Morpheus are legal. Following the lead of a lower court decision last year, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles said on Thursday that peer-to-peer software developers were not liable for any copyright infringement [...]

By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer TOKYO – When Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE – news) (news – web sites). President Kunitake Ando showed off the new Walkman meant to counter the assault by Apple’s iPod portable music player, he held the prized gadget at the gala event upside down. That may have been a bad omen. [...]

Orlando, Fla. August 18, 2004 – 312, Inc., a software development and Web services company, today announced the release of LeanOnMe, a platform independent backup and remote access solution. LeanOnMe harnesses the power of peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to provide secure off-site backup and enables the user to access his or her own information anywhere LeanOnMe [...]

This version has significant improvements in how you connect to the network and find other peers. It also checks for new updates automaticaly and installs them every time you start the program. Only click on this link once and install on desktop when the installer asks you. Download here: http://www.myjavaserver.com/~gwren/Ants/antsp2p.jnlp To learn more about this [...]

INFAMOUS SOFTWARE COMPANY RealNetworks sells music of all sorts through its RealPlayer Music Store. RealNetworks’ creation has never really bothered Apple’s mp3-selling monster iTunes – which has a 70% share of the music-download market – but that may be set to change. RealNetworks is dropping the price of e-songs to 49 cents, and just $4.99 [...]

Reuters LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A group of technology companies including Texas Instruments Inc, STMicroelectronics and Broadcom Corp., on Thursday said they will propose a new wireless networking standard up to 10 times the speed of the current generation. The group says they are submitting a plan for a new standard for a popular short [...]

Reuters LOS ANGELES (R) – A group of consumer electronics makers said on Wednesday they approved the format for a new generation of discs that can store five times the data of DVDs at the same cost — enough to put a full season of “The Sopranos” on one disc. The group, called the Blu-ray [...]

Source: Reuters SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp. said it will begin selling a stripped-down, low-cost version of its Windows XP operating system in the emerging markets of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in order to spread the use of computing and develop technology markets. The move comes as the world’s largest software maker grapples with the twin [...]

The LimeWire 4.1.4 beta has been released. Pro users can download it from their personal download page. The free version is available at the LimeWire Beta Page. There are two major additions in LimeWire 4.1.4. These are iTunes integration on Windows and support for firewall-to-firewall transfers.iTunes support uses the Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP), and [...]

A group that advocates for peer-to-peer networks said it has stopped distributing Microsoft’s Windows XP Service Pack 2 update following legal threats from the software maker. Earlier this week, Downhill Battle had started offering Microsoft’s free update through file-sharing network BitTorrent as a way to demonstrate the potential of peer-to-peer networks for more efficiently distributing [...]

SAN JOSE, Calif. – The Norwegian hacker famed for developing DVD encryption-cracking software has apparently struck again — this time breaking the locks on Apple Computer Inc.’s wireless music streaming technology. Jon Lech Johansen released on his Web site — defiantly named “So Sue Me” — a software key that helps to unlock the encryption [...]

The decision by adware leader Claria to postpone its initial public offering comes as the fast-growing business of advertising-supported software is increasingly coming under pressure. For years, millions of people have acquired adware as the price of using free applications such as file-trading software from the likes of Kazaa. The adware, designed to track Web-surfing [...]

The BSA–a trade group supported by Microsoft, Adobe Systems and other major software makers to enforce software licenses and copyrights–revealed the new mascot Tuesday as part of a national campaign to scare kids out of using peer-to-peer networks. The “Play It Safe in Cyber Space” campaign will culminate with a four-page comic book, distributed in [...]

Blockbuster has launched an online DVD rental service aimed directly at undercutting competition from rival Netflix. Under Blockbuster’s plan, announced Wednesday, customers can place their orders for movie rentals on the company’s Web site, and their DVDs will be shipped free. Consumers can rent up to three movies at a time for a monthly subscription [...]

By Peter Cohen MacCentral Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday announced that the US version of its iTunes Music Store now has over one million songs in its download catalog. Apple said that it’s the first commercial online music download service to offer a million song catalog. That catalog includes offerings from all five major commercial [...]