Purists define peer-to-peer as an architecture devoid of any form of centralisation.
If you can use the Internet, you can learn how to use Prezi, and if you need a helping hand, Prezi offers training, weekly Web sessions, and an active peer-to-peer support group as well as re-usable Prezis that you can use as a template to create your own Prezi presentation.
It uses a central server to link computers together to avoid the complexity of other peer-to-peer programs such as Gnutella, a file-sharing program popular among the high-tech community.
It is purely a value transfer protocol and it functions generally in accordance with the same distributed peer-to-peer principles as BitTorrent.
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The appeal of privacy coupled with the strength of affinity leads to high levels of peer-peer and peer-firm engagement, just as in the offline, face-to-face world.
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At the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, staff are using interactive lectures, field learning and peer-to-peer to sessions as a way of enhancing their course offerings.
With this in mind, experts say, banks would be crazy not to start offering their own peer-to-peer payments services as soon as possible to grab a slice of the P2P pie.
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To give you a sense of the scale of this problem alone, consider that according to the Recording Industry Association of America, approximately 2.6 billion files each month are copied on peer-to-peer sites such as KaZaa and LimeWire , which are increasingly being used to share movies in addition to music.
It seems that the old model of cyber-attacks, involving peer-to-peer virus infection, is becoming increasingly ineffective as anti-virus companies step up their game, causing nogoodniks to rely on search results, websites, and zero-day attacks.
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But what is also striking is that both he and the Bank of England's brainy financial stability director Andy Haldane have been waxing lyrical about the long-term potential of new-age internet-based lenders - what are known as peer-to-peer lenders - to significantly reduce our dependence on traditional banks.
This is the basis of the sharing, networking, open-source, peer-to-peer economies now emerging in crowd-funding, such as by MOSAIC, community currencies, credit unions and cooperatives (which employ more people worldwide than all global corporations combined).
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Unlike other botnets, Storm has no single command-and-control point--it functions as a peer-to-peer system where any hijacked computer can give and receive commands.
Silent Phone deploys the ZRTP peer-to-peer encryption protocol which is recognized as the leading standard for secure end-to-end communication in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone call.
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Indeed, each would have paid above-average interest rates by obtaining a peer-to-peer loan or credit card cash advance, as well as incurred possible tax penalties through 401(k) withdrawals.
Peer-to-peer loan sites, such as Prosper.com and LendingClub.com, allow lending directly between individuals.
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Peer-to-peer local-type printing is not the same thing as enabling you to print from anywhere to anywhere.
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Yet fears persist, leading Prime Minister David Cameron to propose an education programme to promote awareness of advertising techniques as well as banning the use of under-16s as "brand ambassadors" in peer-to-peer marketing campaigns.
Commercial peer-to-peer lending, using the web as a conduit, is an emerging business.
But increasingly, what is sparking excitement inside Facebook is the shorter stuff, such as peer-led coaching circles composed of six to eight colleagues.
BitTorrent's content delivery system, originally developed as an open-source product, uses a "peer-to-peer" downloading method that can piece together a file from several servers at once, as well as from the hard drive of every user who has previously downloaded the file, taking the bandwidth burden off any single source.
Universities will increasingly become age-free as they develop and facilitate peer-to-peer learning and teaching across generations.
Intermountain hired 21 respected doctors part-time and an equal number of full-time nurses to act as peer reviewers for doctors at Intermountain's far-flung operations.
At the 1.2-mile point, Fridjon stands at the edge of a cave-like crevasse, gripping each hiker in turn as they peer into the pitch-black hole.
In addition, farmland wildlife benefits far more from organic farming, as numerous peer-reviewed studies have now confirmed.
Governments may be good at certain things that advance technology, such as the peer-reviewed funding of basic research and pre-commercial development (including demonstrations of proof-of-concept), but they are rarely leaders in technological innovation.
In his keynote speech Tuesday, Barrett identified peer-to-peer networking -- popularized by Napster's music file sharing service -- as an important growth opportunity.
The new model was peer-to-peer, where every user on the network acts as both a client and a server, sharing files and telling other users where else they can go to get them.
The new sheriff of Wall Street, a private-sector Eliot Spitzer described by a peer as "the toughest lawyer you will see, " works out of an unassuming 33-lawyer Houston firm.
So when an outfit called Earth Station 5 announced itself this year as a new peer-to-peer file-sharing service headquartered in the camp, internet downloaders and journalists paid attention.
The Internet has already spawned several innovative ways for you to get the money you need, from donation sites such as KickStarter to peer-loan sites including Prosper.com.
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