You asked for it. You got it. As of today, the µTorrent for Android app has been updated to include a WiFi-only option. You can get the free download or update here. The new WiFi-only mode feature pauses download activity when you’re outside a WiFi area and automatically resumes downloading once WiFi is accessible again. This…

Do you have a Ustream channel? A justin.tv following? A webcam, and a dream? Do you want to help invent the next generation of live streaming? Cool. We’re looking for people like you. BitTorrent Live is a new peer-to-peer live streaming protocol. Built with users, from scratch, it’s designed to take the principles of the BitTorrent…

Update:  Read through the end of this post for a video message from Tim Ferris to BitTorrent users. Last week, we announced a partnership with Tim Ferriss to help get the word out about The 4-Hour Chef. Yesterday, the book was launched on Amazon. Unfortunately, it probably won’t be at your local bookstore. Want to help…

This week we hung out with Tim Ferriss, and decided to take on traditional publishing. We brought new music from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah to your client. We caught a screening of The Bones Brigade: A Documentary (Go. See. This.), and gave back to the Relief Effort in New York. We got to hear what’s good from software…

Engineering is drinking from the fire hose. Software is performance art. This week, we caught up with Robert McDonald: our resident software-developer-slash-tv-producer-slash-coder-slash-clown-academy-grad. Herewith, his story. What do you do here at BitTorrent? I’m a software developer. I write and test code that works on all BitTorrent’s clients, with a focus on embedded Linux systems. I also develop BitTorrent…