Could BitTorrent turn out to be an Internet service provider’s best friend? Half a dozen years ago, the popular file-sharing protocol was nothing but a headache for ISPs as broadband users filled ...

Rightly or wrongly, when you think of BitTorrent, you usually think of piracy. But with Project Maelstrom, BitTorrent is aiming to leverage its peer-to-peer file distribution technology to the very ...

BitTorrent today launched Project Maelstrom, the company’s distributed browser, in beta. The company also released new tools on GitHub that let developers and publishers build content for the browser.

Late last year, BitTorrent announced its latest ambitious project for making the web more open: a browser that can access websites that are hosted through the BitTorrent protocol rather than on ...

BitTorrent is extremely useful for lots of downloading and file-sharing, but if a less tech-inclined friend of yours doesn't understand BitTorrent or you can't install a BitTorrent client, new web ...

In December, BitTorrent Inc. announced its plan to radically change how we use the Internet with Project Maelstrom, a browser that retrieves web content from peer-to-peer-distributed torrents instead ...

BitTorrent has released its own peer to peer browser as a public beta. BitTorrent published the alpha of the browser, known as Project Maelstrom, last December. Project Maelstrom uses the same ...

Though torrenting files has been around forever, there has always been a relatively high barrier of entry that kept normal people from diving in. Not anymore. BitTorrent just announced Torque, a new ...

Wyzo is a new company with two products. The Wyzo browser is built on the Firefox core and comes with a BitTorrent plug-in called FireTorrent built in. For those not interested in a separate browser, ...

Torque is a new BitTorrent interface that can be used to create simple plugins for in-browser downloading, streaming, or other tools that expand it beyond desktop clients. Torque is a new BitTorrent ...