Integrating Browsers with Bittorrent

The two browsers, Opera and Mozilla Firefox will soon have built-in Bittorrent downloaders.

Opera is already ready to release a test package.

For Firefox, Mozilla has started the Moztorrent project with the aim of releasing the moztorrent plugin and another standalone BT client named as "watermonkey".

Well.. how about Microsoft IE. Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system called Avalanche. Using a proprietary network coding technique, the researchers claim download times are between 20-30 per cent faster than BT. It is not yet known if Avalanche will part of future release of IE.