But the technology that powered the Napster music-sharing system is finding a home in the financial world. Napster ran on a peer-to-peer, or P2P, architecture, which tied millions of personal ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. last week used its JavaOne conference to highlight Project JXTA, a new peer-to-peer computing effort that faces skeptics who say they have heard it all before. First announced in ...