As Yahoo ponders various strategies for rejecting Microsoft, one possible option is a merger with AOL. Yahoo is considering in the wake of rejecting Microsoft’s $44.6 billion takeover offer is a merger with AOL. In fact, Time Warner is in the process of splitting AOL into two companies – dial-up access and content and advertising. [...]

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The eDonkey P2P file sharing network began quite simply as a first generation server-client-protocol network, but became eDonkey2000 as part of its decentralization process. It no longer uses a centralized service as it did in the past, but unlike Napster who stayed centralized as a pay service, eDonkey became a totally different machine.
When eDonkey first [...]

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It was 2005 when Gnutella was the third largest file sharing protocol in the world. Even today, Gnutella maintains their rank as the third largest regardless of the fact that FastTrack has declined and the bit torrent protocol has taken over. Gnutella was first developed back in 2000 right after Nullsoft was bought out by [...]

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In 2003, the latest peer to peer file sharing protocol was WASTE which had been developed by Justin Frankel who worked with Nullsoft. The name of the protocol was actually decided based on a novel that was written by Thomas Pynchon that was entitled The Crying of Lot 49, in which their was an acronym [...]

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