Scheduling software maker turned patent enforcer Forgent has announced an agreement with Yahoo in which the search engine will license the technology behind JPEG image compression. In exchange, Yahoo will be removed from litigation against companies Forgent claims are infringing on what it calls the ‘672 Patent.

D-Lib Magazine this month features a handful of articles on the AIHT - Archive Ingest and Handling Test

DivX 6.1 has been released, and promises super-duper speed improvements

Texas Instruments Inc has announced it is sampling a new high-performance OMAP 2-based processor that offers a consumer electronics experience for 3G mobile phones, boosting video performance by up to 4x and imaging performance by up to 1.5x.

Security Park: GE’s Security business has announced the availability of its new WaveJet video compression technology, which lets DVRs store as much as double the video images at medium resolution.

Press Release: FotoKem, Doremi Labs and Christie Digital Systems, USA, Inc., have produced the first Digital Cinema Distribution Master (DCDM) of a major motion picture that conforms to the specifications of the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI). The DCDM was then used to generate a Digital Cinema Package (DCP), ready for distribution.

I thought Dr. DivX was dead, but it looks like a 2.0 beta is in the works

Press Release: Wireless Video-Aware Modem Features WHDI(TM) for Access to all Video Sources with Video Rates of up to 1.5Gbps

LA Times published an interesting editorial on the current state of our patent system.

A news blogger gives a casual example of intelligent text compression. Lossy but still algorithmically unachievable for years.