Archive for 'Peer to Peer'
The RIAA’s Billion Dollar Blunder
As everyone who gives darn about music and technology knows, Napster offered the music industry a billion bucks over the next five years if they would, pretty please with sugar on top, not sue them out of existence. The music business, represented by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) replied, “Hell no!”
Well, actually they [...]
Posted: February 26th, 2001 under Business, Music, Peer to Peer.
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Windows for Workgroups: Hauling the Data on the Microsoft Line
Once more into the breech! Microsoft, after years of playing second fiddle to Novell in the LAN market, now enters the networking battle field with Windows for Workgroups (WinWork). WinWork adds peer-to-peer networking functionality to Windows 3.1.
This bold combination of today’s most popular graphical user interface (GUI) and LAN-capability bids to tilt the network playing [...]
Posted: January 22nd, 1992 under Intranet, Microsoft, Network, Peer to Peer, Windows.
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