The Distributed Computing Industry Association's P4P workgroup is devising a new protocol for what researchers describe as carrier-grade peer-to-peer file transfer systems. Verizon reports that a ...

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 ...

Last year, Chinese smartphone makers Xiaomi, OPPO, and Vivo had announced an alliance for a cross-device file transfer protocol. Now, four more smartphone manufacturers have joined this alliance — ...

OnePlus has joined a number of Chinese smartphone manufacturers in order to improve file transferring on Android. Back in January, it was reported that Vivo, OPPO, and Xiaomi are working together on a ...

Sharing files over the internet is nothing new, but the process has evolved since the halcyon days of finicky FTP servers and dodgy P2P programs. Now, it’s easy to send large files with a simple web ...