Alexander Ratushnyak won some prize money on the Calgary challenge, with an entry of 596,314 bytes on Oct. 25

Australian firm Blaze announces they are deploying their video compression technology to the Russian handheld market.

An article at mondaq.com by Ms Kori Anne Bagrowski and Mr Paul Devinsky. While overbreadth has long been a concern in determining the validity of patent claims, the LizardTech and Phillips cases, read together, may signal a renewed focus on interpreting claims in the context of the written patent.

PAQ6 based Emilcont V0.3 Alpha is OUT.

BlackBerry wireless device maker Research In Motion inked a deal on Thursday to license part of the JPEG file format patent from Forgent Networks.

In a description of Google’s BigTable, Philipp Lenssen and Andrew Hitchcock give a scoop on what google uses for compression. Nothing much too exotic, but still interesting enough for a curious mind.

IMEC reported today that its ADRES core exceeds the performance of state-of-the-art DSP processors, while offering the same flexibility and having the power efficiency of state-of-the-art ASIPs. The core can also be used in a multi-core context for high-performance applications.

Calls for Debate Over Digital Multicast Carriage to Be Properly Called “Anti-Content-Stripping” Measure.

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On2 Technologies, Inc. announced that it has entered into a strategic agreement with German videoconferencing and multimedia software development company, Streamcraft Technologies.