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Lately, the uTorrent development team has been very busy, launching new builds even as frequent as two days in a row. The newest release for uTorrent 3.1.2 is 26740 and it comes with a slew of fixes that improve overall functionality of the application.
The team attempted in this release to repair the problem with t... |
13 February 2012
04:13 GMT |
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This time around BitTorrent kept the release candidate period quite short, as they launched the stable version for uTorrent 3.1.2 over the weekend. uTorrent moved only through three RCs before hitting the stable mark.
The only trouble taken care of for this release to hit the web was an issue with adding torrents, n... |
6 February 2012
09:35 GMT |
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The development for uTorrent 3.1.2 has entered release candidate stage recently, with two RCs being rushed out in the past two days.
The first release candidate, made available on January 30, took care of some issues regarding various asserts, such as adding torrents with labels or ratings and fixed a DHT issue wher... |
1 February 2012
09:03 GMT |
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BitTorrent has made available the release notes for uTorrent 3.1.1 beta, build 26666. Just like most betas, it is filled with fixes and nothing else. However, these contribute to the overall improvement of the application.Of all modifications, repairing disk caching and hashing problems is among the most notable. Ano... |
20 January 2012
08:45 GMT |
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The latest stable build for uTorrent for Windows has been released a few days ago, but it wasn’t until today that the developer made available the release notes on their forum. uTorrent 3.1 stable (build 26650) shows a brief set of changes, and all of them are in fact fixes. At the top of the list is showing t... |
12 January 2012
10:01 GMT |
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BitTorrent, the company, is celebrating a milestone, its BitTorrent clients now have more than 150 million monthly active users. Between uTorrent and the BitTorrent Mainline client, the company boasts that it's seeing 50 percent more users than it did in December 2010, a year ago.
50 million new users in one ye... |
11 January 2012
16:01 GMT |
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BitTorrent, the company, has launched a very interesting new app/service simply dubbed Share. It is a file sharing app, meant as a way of sharing files with a few friends. It fills a special niche in the file sharing world, but it does it in a novel way.
Share uses BitTorrent, it makes sense considering its creator,... |
6 January 2012
05:40 GMT |
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A week after the release of the stable uTorrent 3.1 package BitTorrent Inc. launches a new build, 26616, of their torrent manager. This version of the application takes care of some issues reminiscent from the previous build.
The fixes cover dysfunctions such as crashes upon loading magnet links or updating the tool... |
16 December 2011
05:51 GMT |
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One uTorrent user stated with great unease his belief that a stable 3.1version would be available when the app reaches RC20. Well, the development team went half the way and then released the stable version.
The differences between the last release candidate and uTorrent 3.1 stable are minor, as the most important e... |
9 December 2011
03:56 GMT |
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Unlike Opera, BitTorrent need a bit more than two release candidates to release a stable version for their torrent client, µTorrent. They reached the 7th RC version, which features only fixes.
The development team mended a bug that caused VLC to crash upon the second use, erroneous hash failures (multihash in ... |
6 December 2011
05:47 GMT |
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We’re not accustomed to pay for our torrent downloader, but BitTorrent proposes an enhanced client, filled with extra features incenting to shell out the money. As the regular µTorrent nears a stable version, the company offers the chance to get the Plus edition at the exclusive price of 25 bucks, which ... |
29 November 2011
08:17 GMT |
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Although not advertised as RC2 on the download page yet, a new µTorrent build (26508) has emerged. The new release features both fixes and some changes regarding the display of torrent state and the application column.Repairs address the flickering progress bars for checking torrents and a shutdown hang caused ... |
28 November 2011
11:04 GMT |
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BitTorrent developers are experiencing a huge increase in the number of Mac users, which is why they’re “stepping things up” with the release of a new stable µTorrent and BitTorrent Mainline for Mac, as well as a new Web interface for the iPad coded in HTML5.The people at BitTorrent are finall... |
20 October 2011
15:41 GMT |
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The new release, Alpha 3.1 build 25788, comes with a batch of fixes, and, for the users of the plus version, with improved compatibility for the supported devices as far as transcoding is concerned.This version of the BitTorrent client fixes the portable mode of the app and now the DNA cache directory is no longer cr... |
14 October 2011
03:43 GMT |
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The company behind uTorrent released an alpha version for its upcoming 3.1 version, premiering the new tools its been advertising the past months. The most notable: integration support for Android, iOS, PlayStation 3 and Xbox devices.The upcoming stable release of uTorrent 3.1 will mark a cornerstone in BitTorrent In... |
23 September 2011
13:19 GMT |
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The latest data from the BitTorrent world shows a more diverse cast of BitTorrent clients dividing up the market, though there are still only a few clients battling for position.Surprising no one, uTorrent is on top of the pile, with almost half of BitTorrent file-sharers running it.The BitTorrent-focused blog Torren... |
17 September 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Security researchers have identified a new version of the Koobface worm which uses the global torrent network instead of social networking websites to spread.Dating back to July 2008, Koobface is one of the oldest and most successful computer worms that are still active to this day. Its original variants targeted MyS... |
19 August 2011
05:58 GMT |
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In the world of file sharing BitTorrent is king and in the world of BitTorrent uTorrent is king. No surprise then that the BitTorrent client now has 100 million active users. It's the most popular client out there, by a fair margin, but the milestone also underlines that there is a huge market potential that Bit... |
18 August 2011
12:06 GMT |
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Speed and simplicity is what pushed uTorrent to become the most popular BitTorrent client out there, with about 100 million users. It's a great app and the team has managed to add plenty of new features without really altering the core experience.But BitTorrent, the company behind the protocol and the uTorrent c... |
18 July 2011
12:41 GMT |
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Along with the long-awaited, uTorrent 3.0, BitTorrent the company behind the popular client, has also released uChat an interesting new app still in beta which, as the name implies, enables users to chat within uTorrent by using a distributed, P2P architecture. The interesting thing about is the technology behind uCh... |
24 June 2011
06:01 GMT |
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After many months of waiting, or testing as the case may be, uTorrent 3.0 is finally here. The popular BitTorrent client comes with plenty of new features for power and casual users alike. Among the most touted new features are media streaming before finishing the download, a simple web interface for remote control a... |
23 June 2011
12:05 GMT |
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The first beta of the highly anticipated uTorrent 3.0 has been released. Many of the new features have been in testing for quite some time now, but this is the first time uTorrent 3.0 has reached a state where it's mostly complete and ready for wide testing.uTorrent is the most popular BitTorrent client in the w... |
20 April 2011
05:45 GMT |
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Google is facing strong criticism for removing search suggestions and instant results for terms like BitTorrent, uTorrent, RapidShare and others as part of its commitment to fighting piracy.At the beginning of December, the Web search giant revealed via its general counsel that it plans on making improvements to the ... |
27 January 2011
06:34 GMT |
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BitTorrent is the world's most popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocol, but, since it's used to distribute a lot of pirated material, it's not a favorite of content creators. BitTorrent Inc., the company behind the protocol and the most popular client software, has been working on changing that and ... |
7 January 2011
04:47 GMT |
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BitTorrent, the company behind the uTorrent and the BitTorrent Mainline client, has announced that its two products now have over 100 million monthly active users. The company also shared other impressive numbers showing that the protocol is as popular as ever."This is an exciting day for our team. Our vision is to b... |
4 January 2011
04:05 GMT |
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Romanian antivirus vendor BitDefender has released a stand-alone malware scanner which integrates with µTorrent and can be used to check downloaded torrents for threats.µTorrent, intended to be called "micro torrent," but commonly referred to as utorrent, is the most popular BitTorrent client after Xunlei... |
22 December 2010
13:26 GMT |
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uTorrent 2.2 has been released, the latest update to the very popular BitTorrent client. uTorrent 2.2 comes with a several big new features, chief among which is App Studio, a platform for JavaScript-based extensions and apps. It also comes with support for uTP, a new transfer protocol pioneered by the uTorrent team.... |
11 November 2010
09:43 GMT |
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BitTorrent Inc. proudly announced a few hours ago the immediate availability for download of the first alpha version of uTorrent Server for Linux and UNIX-like operating systems!The uTorrent Server application provides a state-of-the-art implementation of the popular BitTorrent protocol and a full-featured WebUI (web... |
3 September 2010
07:05 GMT |
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Valve's Steam digital game distribution platform, revolutionary at its launch, proved a hit and has become the leader in the emerging market of legal game downloads. The Steam client is installed on about 25 million computers and Valve regularly releases statistical data from its users. So far, it focused on the... |
24 August 2010
11:55 GMT |
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BitTorrent, the company behind the popular peer-2-peer protocol, is dead set on making uTorrent much more than a BitTorrent client. It runs several experimental projects aimed at expanding uTorrent’s possibilities and one of them is an apps platform for the popular client. The platform, dubbed Project Griffin, ... |
13 July 2010
11:37 GMT |
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Either uTorrent developers are moving faster than they can actually release their software, or they’ve taken a page out of Google Chrome’s playbook. With uTorrent 2.0 barely out and uTorrent 2.1 in the works but still labeled as an alpha, the developers decided to skip ahead and have launched the first uT... |
24 June 2010
08:50 GMT |
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BitTorrent, as a technology, has a stigma about it, but it certainly transformed Internet traffic for the past years and plenty of companies and projects have been using it for more efficient distribution of large amounts of data. With the release of uTorrent 2.0, a lightweight BitTorrent client owned by BitTorrent I... |
25 May 2010
06:43 GMT |
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uTorrent is the most popular BitTorrent client out there and for good reason. It’s very small and fast, yet it manages to be one of the most complete, in terms of features. The development team is not resting on its laurels, though, it’s working on several new technologies that now have a home in the new ... |
14 May 2010
11:18 GMT |
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A joint study conducted by researchers at the University of California in Riverside, USA with help from the Telefonica Research company in Barcelona, Spain, has concluded that uTorrent provides 16% faster download speeds than its main competitor, Vuze.The study was conducted in the month of August 2009 on more than 1... |
9 April 2010
09:59 GMT |
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The most popular BitTorrent client in the world has just gotten a big update which means it's upgrade time for a lot of people. It's well worth the upgrade too, as uTorrent 2.0 is a big step forward. The biggest update is support for µTP, which should help with network congestion and could result in i... |
4 February 2010
09:37 GMT |
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Regardless of the controversy surrounding BitTorrent, it remains one of the most widely used internet technologies and millions of people use it everyday. It is also one of the heaviest network applications out there and there have been plenty who have criticized the protocol and the apps that use it for 'hoggi... |
27 January 2010
10:42 GMT |
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Anyone following the BitTorrent scene has been noticing some interesting developments lately and three new technologies in particular have stood out. A couple of them, DHT, PEX, are new ways of finding peers (users with copies of the file you want to download) without relying on the old BitTorrent tracker system. Th... |
19 January 2010
10:54 GMT |
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uTorrent, the most popular bittorrent client in the world now owned and developed by BitTorrent, is getting closer to the 2.0 release, which packs some pretty big features and updates. One feature is support for the new uTP protocol, the latest iteration of the BitTorrent protocol dating from 2001, which can adjust b... |
17 December 2009
13:18 GMT |
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Bandwidth throttling has become a fact of life for many Internet users and it's one of the major issues at heart of the net-neutrality debate. Most users don't like the practice, but ISPs say they are forced to do this because of network congestion. Now, uTorrent, the most popular BitTorrent client built by... |
2 November 2009
06:30 GMT |
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The developers at BitTorrent Inc. handling the Mac version of uTorrent have announced a new Alpha version of their torrent download manager, confirming a completely revamped user interface, improvements in the speed display, and more. uTorrent is a free-to-use application for Mac OS X and Windows, while Linux users c... |
20 October 2009
06:02 GMT |
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µTorrent, a popular BitTorrent client now available for Mac OS X as well, has been updated to version 0.9.2 beta. The software follows the rules of a protocol such as HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol). BitTorrent can be used to deliver any type of file. However, BitTorrent is purely a content-distribution meth... |
16 September 2009
09:43 GMT |
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BitTorrent Inc. has released uTorrent 0.9.1.2 Build 15399 Beta, a new version of its popular file-sharing application for Mac OS X. The release adds a total of nine fixes to issues reported in previous versions of the still-in-beta application. Particularly, the changelog reveals, fixes incorporated in uTorrent 0.9.1... |
8 May 2009
06:56 GMT |
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These days, BitTorrent is the most popular P2P (peer-to-peer) file distribution protocol. Whether you want to share some files or you just want to get your hands on the latest Linux distributions, then you must use a BitTorrent client. There are many BitTorrent clients for Linux, starting with the old and classical... |
21 March 2009
06:42 GMT |
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While still in Beta, uTorrent is being cleansed and “purified” once every few days since its official introduction for the Macintosh last month. The latest version of uTorrent for Mac delivers enhancements spanning CPU usage, error message display, and selective downloading. uTorrent is a BitTorrent clien... |
10 December 2008
10:17 GMT |
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BitTorrent Inc has released a new version of its popular BitTorrent client (recently released on Mac), uTorrent 0.9.0.1. The new release fixes a crash in Finder, and delivers a promise from the development team that PPC users will soon be supported just as well as Intel users. “We've just released µT... |
4 December 2008
08:52 GMT |
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µTorrent has finally been released for Mac. This is the first official Mac beta for Intel Macs running OS X 10.5 Leopard. The software is free to download and use. Users are advised to exercise caution while using the still buggy-software. TUAW notes that this first Mac version of µTorrent doesn't ha... |
27 November 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Secunia has issued two advisories, SA31441 and SA31445, regarding a highly critical vulnerability that affects uTorrent versions 1.6, 1.7.x up to 1.8 RC6, as well as the BitTorrent mainline client 6.0 up to 6.0.3. Secunia rated this vulnerability as "Highly Critical" because it can allow an attacker to perform Denial... |
13 August 2008
02:56 GMT |
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Avast Antivirus and uTorrent have only a few things in common: they are extremely popular among their segments of users even if one of them is an antivirus solution while the other is a BitTorrent client. Moreover, both of them are free, which obviously raises their popularity among the users looking for such softwar... |
29 April 2008
04:52 GMT |
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The peer-to-peer file sharing industry is quite important these days as ISPs, copyright holders and users are continuously talking about it. While consumers simply love P2P file sharing, copyright holders has strongly criticized it because it is rumored that the largest amount of pirated content is distributed by thi... |
17 April 2008
10:27 GMT |
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uTorrent, one of the most popular BitTorrent download clients available on the web, must be updated as soon as possible as a new vulnerability has been discovered in the application. SecurityFocus today reported that certain releases of both BitTorrent and uTorrent include a "peers windows remote denial of service vu... |
17 January 2008
14:31 GMT |
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