Features

• Sharing Data Securely to Foster Product Development

  By Kim S. Nash | 24 November, 2009 06:49

  Boston Scientific wants to tear down barriers that prevent product developers from accessing the research that went into its successful medical devices so that they can create new products faster. But making data too easily accessible could open the way to theft of information potentially worth millions or billions of dollars. It's a classic corporate data privacy problem.

• LimeWire chairman: P2P concerns overblown

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 05 August, 2009 00:17

  Lime Group Chairman Mark Gorton found himself in the hot seat last week during a hearing on the problem of inadvertent data leaks on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks including his company's, LimeWire. The hearing was held by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

• Private P2P networks add trust to file sharing

  By Jackson West | 11 July, 2009 00:32

  Stephane Herry says that he founded his private file-sharing network GigaTribe out of frustration at not being able to share files with his friends on Kazaa. Every time he searched for a file that he knew a friend had uploaded, he saw only similar files uploaded by strangers.