EETimes: India’s SoftJin has announced a GDSII compression technology, GDSIIZIP, that it claims compresses the files by up to 20 times, about four to five times better than the commonly-used gzip utility available on Unix.

Just as companies are getting ready for MPEG-4, MPEG-7 starts lurking in the shadows.

JVC will release the alneo XA-HD500 digital audio player featuring JVC’s unique K2 technology to improve sound quality from compressed audio files. This is similar to what we saw in Creative’s recently introduced X-Fi series.

Microsoft opened a research and development centre in Taiwan that will focus on developing advanced compression technologies for files such as music and movies, as well as home media centre applications.

The 2005 Gödel Prize is awarded to Noga Alon, Yossi Matias and Mario Szegedy for their paper “The space complexity of approximating the frequency moments”

After more than 1 year, finally a new version of LAME. This one is featuring improved speed and improved quality.

In 3 quick press releases, Coding Technologies announces that MPEG-4 aacPlus is going places (with DTS, Winamp and Cube-Tec).

PC World reports that Texas Instruments announced new DaVinci technology, describing it as a one-stop solution for the creation of sophisticated devices with a wide range of video features.

Thomson announced that they are using JPEG2000 in a professional digital camera - primarily because of the edge it gives broadcasters in the editing suite.

Smith Micro Software Inc. subsidiary Allume Systems on Tuesday introduced StuffIt Deluxe 10 for Mac OS X, the latest major version of their data compression tool. The new version features Allume’s vaunted JPEG compression technology and other new features.