Internet-based electronic software distribution (ESD)enables a user to buy software online and then download the product directly to the desktop. Its roots are the freeware and shareware programs that ...

It wasn’t long ago that the phrase “software distribution” meant lacing up your shoelaces, schlepping a disk to each end user’s machine, and doing the installation on the spot. Despite all of the ...

Oh, the joy of downloading and installing free software — only to have a bunch of unwanted, tag-along junkware, or worse, malware, automatically installed on your computer. Why has this unacceptable ...

Germany’s Asknet has teamed with Japan’s SoftBank in a new joint venture aimed at providing electronic software distribution services in the Asia market. The new venture, Asknet, will operate out of ...

Andrew Donoghue looks into the world of distributing software over the Net and the inevitable security problems that go with it. CD or not CD, that is the question now facing network managers. the Net ...

Tachyum announced that the software distribution for its Prodigy Universal Processor has entered the release candidate (RC1) testing phase. This integrated software stack is now accessible to selected ...

Valve has officially confirmed that it is to bring additional software types to its Steam digital distribution platform, expanding it from its current games-and-drivers focus. Steam is an undoubted ...