After more than a year of working out the kinks, Pipe is set to go public on Wednesday, letting Facebook friends transfer files as big as a gigabyte. Joan E. Solsman was CNET's senior media reporter, ...

Many hands make light work.

A tool for sharing files among Facebook contacts has launched a new version built on Web standards instead of Flash. That will let it reach mobile devices in coming weeks. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Facebook has a varied history when it comes to the success of its standalone apps. Pipe, a Facebook-based peer-to-peer file sharing app, on the other hand, could be incredibly useful. After one year ...