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 ...

Google just launched Zopfli, a new open source compression algorithm that can compress web content about 3 to eight 8 more densely (PDF) than the standard zlib library. Because Zopfli is compatible ...

Algorithm promises faster data transfer speeds and reduced Web page load times by compressing content up to 8 percent smaller than zlib. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been ...

A researcher has created a new kind of zip bomb -- one that doesn't require recursion to inflate relatively small sizes into petabytes of unzipped data. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share ...

Wide-area network optimization has become an important technique to improve the performance and throughput of all sorts of networked applications, including some applications that depend on ...

Compression, as the name implies, squeezes or “compresses” the size of a file or data set. Compression techniques are used for voice, video, audio, text, and program data in hundreds of different ...