If you are not already familiar, Windows Live Mesh 2011 is Microsoft’s file synchronization and remote desktop access application that evolved out of its earlier products, FolderShare and Live Sync. It is a part of Microsoft’s vision for how users will manage their data across multiple devices – using a blend of cloud services and [...]

Last Friday was the annual Data Privacy Day, held to raise awareness about data privacy issues among consumers, organizations, and government. A key piece of online data is information about a user’s location. While location information has enabled the delivery of interesting services, it has also raised security concerns. Social media applications allow users to [...]

A big shortcoming of traditional file transfer protocols such as FTP or HTTP has been the impact on throughput that results from TCP’s aggressive congestion control mechanism; especially when transferring large data files over wide area networks. Aspera’s FASP is an application layer protocol that is among the many alternatives that have been designed to [...]