Peer to peer lending startup, Prosper , is expanding operations to Japan and other Asian countries as a shared partnership with Tokyo-based SBI Holdings, Inc. via TechCrunch

"We try to be fair and reasonable in resolving these cases"

Music-industry litigation tactics against suspected online music pirates face a challenge in Tennessee, with an Army sergeant arguing that record labels have engaged in a "conspiracy" to defraud courts and ... via The Daily Irrelevant

On the grounds of "obvious disproportionateness" the Local Court in Offenburg had on July 20 prohibited the local public prosecutor's office from requesting that a provider reveal the personal data that match ... via NowPublic

I got an email from Ben Ashley, another surprised Kontiki user. He said: [snip] Midway through a game of rFactor, my lag went through the roof and that made it unbearable. via Geoff's Blog

"The Czech dubbed version of The Simpsons Movie made it to BitTorrent trackers a few hours after its world premiere, followed by a Pirate Bay celebration"

The appearance non-official versions don't, however, seem to have done anything to seriously impair earnings. via P2pnet.net

A survey released today by Entertainment Media Research correlates social media sites to the growth of illegal music downloading. via SearchViews

Intel Go Parallel Portal : Translating Multicore Power into Application Performance Extending OpenMP to Clusters [PDF] This paper points out key aspects of OpenMP, and then describes how Cluster OpenMP takes ... via Linux Today

"We did not live up to the high level of performance that our customers have learned to expect and demand from us."

Post I.T. {vbar} P2P Alert Members of Congress said last week that peer-to-peer file-sharing software can pose a national security threat. via Washington Post

Submitted by Thomas J. Raef on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 10:04am What company needs to allow programs like Limewire, Kazaa, ShareBear, or any of the other P2P programs? Why not just block all P2P traffic and let people ... via NetworkWorld

Abstract In this paper, we propose to model the dynamics of BitTorrent P2P file sharing systems using the stochastic differential equation method. via CiteULike