Facebook is open sourcing a new compression algorithm called Zstandard that aims to replace the common technology behind the Zip file format. The most common algorithm behind the Zip file format is ...

Reducing costs is a key consideration for every IT budget. One of the items looked at most closely is the cost of a company's bandwidth. Using content compression on a Web site is one way to reduce ...

Woodcliff Lake, NJ and Chester Springs, PA -- January 28 2015 -- Intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. is making secure, efficient, hardware-based data compression easier for designers to build ...

Gaining even the smallest performance boost from your web server can be crucial. Jack Wallen shows you how to eek the most out of Apache with the help of mod_deflate compression. If you’re looking to ...

What is known as ZIP to most of us, is actually the DEFLATE algorithm, and Google has made it slightly better. The search giant announced Zopli today, which is a new compression algorithm that is ...