From what I know the most common file sharing protocols are NFS, SMB and WebDAV. On the Windows side NFS only seems available in th premium offering, from what I can gather? Are there other popular ...

BitTorrent’s decentralized file sharing protocol BitTorrent File System (BTFS) has launched its mainnet. The project seeks to become what developers describe as “the world’s largest and first scalable ...

The software giant's stipulation on a file-sharing protocol has evoked new anger from open-source developers and may also have antitrust implications. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

The speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second. According to Einstein, it's a rule that can't be broken; a universal constant that does not change. It's also the maximum speed at which data can ...

Apple Filing Protocol is one of Apple's original file-sharing technologies. Its client software will soon be gone from macOS forever. The year after Apple released the Macintosh in 1984, it introduced ...

Here are ZDNET's top picks for a variety of use cases. Read now Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system already disables by default SMB (Server Message Block) version 1, the 30-year-old file-sharing ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. The more distributed ...