Austin’s Forgent Networks Inc. dramatically narrowed its net loss for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005, while revenue for the quarter sank.

The 119th Audio Engineering Society Convention will take place at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York, NY from Friday, October 7 through Monday, October 10, 2005.

The folks at DivX.com are going crazy for their five-year anniversary

Forgent announces a settlement with small fish Axis Communications.

Chaoticom Technologies, the research and development division of the University of New Hampshire’s first spin-out company, has received a $50,000 grant from the N.H. Industrial Research Center (NHIRC) to develop the next generation of video compression technology.

BBC Research & Development in association with the Professional-MPEG Forum has released an open-source implementation of the new Media Dispatch Protocol for the automated and standardised transfer of media files between different production and broadcasting facilities.

Sorenson Media today announced the immediate availability of Sorenson Squeeze 4.2 Compression Suite for Windows and Sorenson Squeeze 4.2 for Macromedia Flash for Windows.

Neuxpower Solutions today unveiled NXPowerLite 2.0, a new version of their powerpoint presentation compression software.

Even Technologies has signed a contract with IP Media Services to deliver full-screen global TV on demand through Bestfrontseat.com.

In a bid to cut licensing costs for local electronics makers, Chinese researchers plan to develop a version of the next-generation HD-DVD optical disc format specifically for China that will include support for a locally developed video compression technology, called AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard), according to a researcher involved with the project.