A Carnegie Mellon University research group has developed a QuickTime-based, peer-to-peer streaming system called End System Multicast (ESM).

Traditional streaming is very expensive, because the broadcaster must have enough bandwidth to support the datarate of the bitstream multiplied by the number of viewers (plus some overhead). P2P streaming is important because the bandwidth burden is shared […]

The sky-is-falling headline from MSNBC reads “AOL patents instant messaging”. But from the way that Gregory Aharonian of Internet Patent News describes the patent, it may be even worse than that.

The claim is it’s a system where you have a network; you have a way to monitor who’s on the network; and if you want […]

In a huge blow to the potential success of Windows XP Media Center Edition, Matsushita and Sony have announced an unprecedented collaboration that will result in an open-source (GPL’d) version of Linux especially for consumer digital media devices.

A Matsushita representative told the Financial Times, “We are not forming an alliance to compete against Microsoft”. Maybe […]