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Archive for November, 2005

Parallel (MPI) version of bzip2 available

4th November 2005

Christian Siebert announces a special bzip2 version which uses the original bzip2 library and message passing primitives (MPI) to provide a parallel implementation.

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Samsung to Implement Vimio Compression Technology

3rd November 2005

ElectronicNews: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Dublin, Ireland-based mobile media content distribution developer Vimio Plc has signed an agreement that covers the use by the consumer electronics giant to embed audio and video codec software in its mobile phones.

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The Internet Archive Chooses LuraTech’s LuraWave(R) JP2 and LuraDocument(R) PDF Compressor for Groundbreaking Open Library Project

3rd November 2005

JPEG2000/Part 1 Solution Integrated Into Core Workflow and Selected as the Digital Master Solution; JPEG2000/Part 6-Style PDFs Selected as Key Distribution Access Format

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Forgent Announces Patent License Agreement With Electronics for Imaging

3rd November 2005

License With California Based Digital Imaging and Print Management Company

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Winzip releases PPMd compression specification for winzip 10.0

2nd November 2005

Winzip has detailed what fellow-zip-file-utility-developers need to provide support for recently introduced PPMd algorithm in Winzip 10.0

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ATI uses GPU for video transcoding

2nd November 2005

Extreme Tech talks about it

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