Technology news and Jobs arrow Technology Deals arrow Cashed up BitTorrent spends to buy µTorrent
Cashed up BitTorrent spends to buy µTorrent E-mail
by Stuart Corner   
Friday, 08 December 2006
BitTorrent, developer of the peer-to-peer file sharing protocol that has just secured $US20m of new funding, has acquired µTorrent, developer of a client software that implements the BitTorrent protocol and says it plans to incorporate a BitTorrent client in TVs. mobile phones and other non-PC platforms.

"BitTorrent recognises µTorrent's (pronounced micro torrent) exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community," said Bram Cohen, CEO and cofounder of BitTorrent. "Ludvig Strigeus, the developer of µTorrent, clearly put a significant amount of time into optimising the client, which has already been widely adopted by the BitTorrent community as a safe and efficient implementation of the BitTorrent protocol."

BitTorrent says that, following the acquisition, patented content delivery innovations made by BitTorrent will be integrated in the µTorrent client in a manner that will remain seamless to the community of users.

"Ultimately, the integration of best-of-breed BitTorrent technology will result in an improved client and an enhanced user experience. It will also accelerate BitTorrent's plans to provide high-performance content delivery services that power websites seeking the most efficient platform for distributing large, high-quality files." BitTorrent said.

"Lastly, the incorporation of µTorrent's lightweight codebase strengthens the adoption of BitTorrent technology in embedded systems, including televisions, mobile phones and other non-PC platforms."

When BitTorrent announced its new funding earlier this month,  it said it planned to sue the funds to get its technology onto other web sites.{moscomment}

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to post your comment!


Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now
 
< Next story in category   Previous story in the category >
iTWire user statistics Visitors last 30 days
Suscribers
904,266
13,751
#1 independent technology news advertise here
  •   *  
  • Search
  • AdvSeach
  • Login
  • Events
  • FreeStuff
Subscribe to our free e-newsletter