Greg Coats announced an upgrade to GeoJasper, offereing 2 to 10 times speedup for Jpeg2000 conversions. Thanks to a contribution by Kaspar.

Forgent Announces Patent License Agreement With Color Dreams, Inc. Following the filing of the litigation on ‘672 patents, six companies that were defendants have entered into license agreements.

“It’s not the physical format that we have the issue with, it’s that the protection scheme on Blu-ray is very anti-consumer.” Gates also questioned how much next-gen DVD formats will even matter, saying content will soon be streamed directly or stored on a hard disk.

Want to hear what a G.729 codec sounds like? Gao makes it easy.

Nathan Willis of News Forge raises some serious concerns on how most upcoming VOIP solutions are using proprietary codecs.

With work on MPEG-4 almost complete, MPEG has been making some steady progress with MPEG-7 and MPEG-21. The MPEG-21 Digital Item Declaration standard can now be freely downloaded.

Matt Mahoney announces a minor bug fix in PAsQDa 4.1, probably in dictionary preprocessing.

Now Jpeg2000 also gets used for digital cinema, maybe Jpeg2000 will become mainstream.

CNN: Microsoft Corp. Tuesday said it will pay RealNetworks Inc. $761 million to resolve their disputes, including a lawsuit that accused the world’s largest software maker of using its dominance in operating systems to promote its rival media software. They will now also work togther to promote each other’s technolgies and services.

Demand for products to boost throughput and bandwidth efficiency of WAN networks has exploded. A detailed look at “how much”.