Apple blocks Drivetrain from Apple App Store
Apple is in news again for blocking a harmless mobile application from the Apple App Store.
This latest application to be blocked is Drivetrain which enables the user to control Transmission Bittorrent application from an iPhone or iPod Touch.
The reason behind this block is pretty ridiculous. Apple stated that these [...]

Vuze to Go portable edition launched
Vuze has announced a portable edition of their Bittorrent client. Vuze was previously called Azureus which used to be one of the most popular BT clients in the market. Things changed with the arrival of uTorrent.
Vuze to Go is the portable edition of Vuze but it is neither open [...]

The Pirate Bay found guilty
This is good news for all the media companies around the world who have been targeting peer to peer sharing networks.
The Pirate Bay has been found guilty of breaking Sweden’s copyright law. They did that by allowing web users to freely download copyrighted content from the web.
The courts have also [...]

Facebook blocks The Pirate Bay links
The Pirate Bay is one of the most popular though controversial BitTorrent search engine on the web.
The service recently added a new feature on their network which enabled their users to share Pirate Bay torrent links on their Facebook profile.
Facebook has apparently decided to block these links due [...]

Mininova facing DDoS attack continuously
BitTorrent search engine Mininova has revealed that they have been facing repeated DDoS attacks in the past couple of days.
This attack is being conducted by botnet spanning three continents.
Some of the times, the entire service becomes inaccessible due to the massive load put on the servers of the [...]

Microsoft servers cannot handle the download demand for Windows 7 Beta
Microsoft just made available the first public beta of their upcoming operating system Windows 7.
The demand for this free beta download was so much that the company struggled to manage the load on its servers.
The free download has been suspended for the time [...]

uTorrent has more than 28 million monthly users!
TorrentFreak is reporting that the popular free bittorrent application uTorrent has more than 28 Million Monthly Users.
This tiny application was first released three years ago. It has seen many updated versions till now.
The developers have even made available an Apple Mac edition.
TorrentFreak quotes Simon Morris, [...]

The Pirate Bay launches ViO converter for video conversion
The Pirate Bay is popular for being one of the largest bittorrent tracker in the world.
They have now made available a new service named ViO which is basically a video conversion utility.
The developers said that the application can reduce the AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV and others videos [...]

Torrent Entertainment Network closed down by BitTorrent Inc.
BitTorrent Inc. had launched their ambitious Torrent Entertainment Network last year.
The store enabled the web users to purchase and download movies and television shows legally using the BitTorrent p2p protocol.
However, the store was not a success as the company has now announced its closure.
They are now [...]

Mininova gets a major hardware upgrade
Mininova is one of the most popular torrent searching services on the web.
TorrentFreak has reported that the service has just gone a major hardware upgrade as they prepare for more traffic and users in the coming times.
Mininova co-founder Erik spoke about this upgrade during the shift: “One of the critical [...]