He cites online file-sharing firms like Dropbox and Box.net, which are popular with companies, as potential competitors.
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The free version has no email capability, and the app doesn't support common file-transfer services like Dropbox or SugarSync.
Even with a broadband connection and a sophisticated file-sharing schema like BitTorrent, illegally downloading and swapping movies is far more difficult than trading songs.
The mp3 ended the era of the compact disc, first through illegal file-sharing services like Napster, later through legal downloading destinations like the iTunes Store.
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File-exchange sites like Gnutella and Hotline, which act as matchmakers for people who want to exchange movies and other copyrighted material, aren't nearly as easy to use as the popular music-exchange program Napster.
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Some new browser features, like file-sharing, aim to replicate functions or Web services that are already easy to access across multiple devices through services like Google Drive or Dropbox.
But programs like Dropbox for file-sharing are also growing as social media networks.
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The three-year research was carried out by a team of computer scientists who developed software that acted like a BitTorrent file-sharing client and logged all the connections made to it.
There are companies building IG foundations that cover managed repositories and un-managed content like network file shares alike.
How do you place that attachment file into a cloud-based filesystem, and start to manage it on the cloud like its a network file?
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With all this free trade and trade barriers falling, it's really hard for an individual like me with a global-scope patent to file all over the world and get patent protection everywhere, and having to go overseas to fight infringement.
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And small patent holders don't like the idea of the "first-to-file" system.
The answer is Manuel Bartlett, an old-style politico with wide rank-and-file support and open contempt for the road down which technocratic presidents like Mr Zedillo have led Mexico.
Broadcasters are certainly afraid that the existence of devices like ReplayTV and TiVo could lead to a Napster-style file-sharing underground.
Instead, recollection appears to be more like placing a file from your hard drive into the text or video-editing software, where it can be altered or possibly even deleted.
Muxlim's streaming video sister site, Muslim.tv, and its social network, Muslimspace.com, are growing quickly, but the majority of the portal's visitors are drawn by its file-sharing service, which El-Fatatry says is largely used for sharing videos like documentaries, faith-centric lectures and ceremonies.
While artists like The Counting Crows are embracing the brighter sides of new distribution, file-sharing sites can still be bad news for established record labels and movie studios.
San Francisco-based Bittorrent, for instance, has worked to bring file-sharing out of the hands of pirates and into the mainstream, cutting deals with companies like Fox, Paramount and Viacom to distribute legitimate peer-to-peer content.
San Francisco-based Bittorrent, for instance, has worked to bring file-sharing out of the hands of pirates and into the mainstream, cutting deals with companies like Fox, Paramount and Viacom (nyse: VIA - news - people ) to distribute legitimate peer-to-peer content.
"Spear-phishing" typically works by sending fake e-mails that look like legitimate correspondence, but which link to a malicious website or file attachment.
This made it difficult to realize personal content protection with a set of dedicated application software and dedicated content file formats in an open environment like Android, since a variety of applications freely developed by third-parties started to be downloaded and executed.
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Through a service called "e-append, " data vendors like CheetahMail or ReturnPath can match mailing addresses with e-mail addresses they have on file.
Like a nuclear missile silo, my agency's Vatican file had its own doomsday file - a hardbound manila folder on which a typewritten sticky label had emblazoned in telex font capitals: WHAT TO DO IN CASE THE POPE DIES. While many of the instructions dated back to 1961 and could be safely ignored, it was still an interesting study in panic.
In addition, while Surface doesn't run most old-style Windows apps, it includes some standard old Windows programs like the calculator, notepad and file explorer.
Rather, the software patent debate pits the patent bar and large software companies like Microsoft and IBM, which have tens of thousands of patents, against rank-and-file programmers and up-and-coming entrepreneurs for whom the threat of frivolous litigation is a growing disincentive to innovation.
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