In a bold, technologically retrograde move that will strike fear into anyone who surfed the internet before the advent of DSL and cable, Microsoft Research has devised an acoustic file transfer ...

Vivo, Oppo, and Xiaomi have formed an alliance to enable their users to transfer files between their mobile devices, without the need to download third-party apps or consume network data. The data ...

Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo founded a consortium for fast file transfers between smartphones in mid-2019. Their proprietary peer-to-peer communication protocol is supposed to make our life much easier, just ...

Ever since Napster found its way into every college dorm room in 1999, the defenders of intellectual property have been perplexed at how to best deal with peer-to-peer file transfer. Last week's news ...