And Johansen is an advocate of the open-source philosophy of sharing software code for free.
In addition, content-sharing software lets users wirelessly share videos, photos, and music from other DLNA-enabled devices to then enjoy on the notebook.
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And just as open-source programmers collaborate by sharing software code, engineers are already starting to collaborate on open-source designs for objects and hardware.
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Today, Animoto, a New York-based startup that makes photo and video-sharing software, launched its own web store with a decidedly quirky collection of items.
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This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from Benjamin, who feels a little let down by the most recent changes to Evernote's image-sharing software.
Though hobbyists may continue to write file-sharing software away from American jurisdiction, investors are likely to steer clear of commercial P2P operations for fear of legal repercussions there.
Because his sharing software might be running in the background (even when he's not downloading files himself) he is in effect sharing his own movie files wherever he goes.
Since social software tools speed idea sharing throughout an organization, they multiply opportunities for employees to get things done better together, hone skills and receive wider recognition.
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Both recently unveiled new digital cameras and software intended to simplify the sharing and printing of images.
Cisco's recently announced collaboration-software business is designed to enable productivity across dispersed groups and includes Twitter- and Facebook-type software for rapid information-sharing and execution.
We also use desktop sharing tools to demo software products or go over design changes.
In addition to payment management tools, the package provides software for campaign management, social sharing, user updates and comments.
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So with GIFs in sort of a grey area, how does this software fit in with a video sharing tool like Vimeo?
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The proliferation of malicious software, prevalence of cyber tool sharing, use of hackers as proxies, and routing of operations through third countries make it difficult to identify the responsible party.
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In a speech earlier this year, he cited the importance of precision-target advertising, real-time search functions, e-commerce, revenue-sharing with third-party software and games developers as well as payment for digital content.
The court made software companies liable for misusing their file-sharing services and allowing copyrighted material to be easily and illegally downloaded.
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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.
These are big bets, but the Internet's unique strength lies in letting users personalize their news, communication and entertainment online, in Web logs and instant messages, file sharing, search queries and personal software.
Houston sees this new addition to Dropbox as yet another step toward making our digital lives flow more easily between the myriad of hardware and software combinations that make simple tasks, like sharing, a big headache.
Internet security firm Internet Security Solutions (nasdaq: ISSX - news - people ) has just completed an investigation into the existence of several large file-sharing networks used to trade pirated software and movies.
The obvious ones are already being discussed extensively online, including how Facebook will make use of even more data, how it will interactive with their facial recognition software, and the lowering of tolerances to sharing everything with a huge online data warehouse.
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The "pull-to-refresh" feature, which Mr. Brichter built in 2009, is woven in software such as an app made by content-sharing site Pinterest Inc. and the mail app from Apple Inc.
The answer is that employees and enterprises are not able to use existing sharing technologies in part because of the software design and usage constraints, in part because the systems are not suited to the extended enterprise that many people now work in.
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The industry has failed to shut down file-sharing companies whose peer-to-peer software has legitimate applications.
Netflix said that as part of the project it is sharing its hardware design and the open source software components of the server used in the project.
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Its portfolio companies include Scoot, which rents scooters in urban areas to promote ride-sharing, and Root3 Technologies, which creates software to help universities, hospitals and other businesses with their own, onsite power plants to run those plants more efficiently.
And users from those three countries were also the most likely to engage in other risky behavior on work PCs, including reading personal e-mail, downloading music and video and even peer-to-peer file-sharing, a practice that often spreads malicious software or inadvertently gives outsiders access to sensitive documents.
If whomever you're sharing with didn't want to upgrade their software, well, tough noogies, you just can't exchange music until they upgrade (or you downgrade).
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In theory, government agents who are scattered geographically will be able to log on and meet "face to face" as realistic avatars in a digital conference room equipped with video and audio conferencing, presentation applications, and file sharing, all provided by IBM's unified communications software.
But today, file-sharing is one of the most cutting-edge areas of software development, as high-speed Internet connections allow users to trade music, movies and applications at a blistering pace.
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