Apple’s latest newsletter has a big batch of tech note entries on compression with QuickTime.

Matt Mahoney announced release of PAQ8A at comp.compression. The is an experimental pre-release of the PAQ8 archiver.

Just to let you know that we are now using WP 2.0. Although everything seems to be working fine, if you notice something broken, let me know.

On2 Technologies CEO Douglas McIntyre completed an interview with the NAMC Newswire. The interview is available for immediate listening.

EETimes: The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is finalizing the design of a specially-loaded satellite having a big antenna that can be unfurled to provide mobile television signals. This satellite will use MPEG 4 standards for compression.

Press Release: On2 Technologies CTTnet announced that they have made significant progress in the development and deployment throughout China of a broad range of mobile streaming applications based on On2’s TrueMotion VP7 Technology.

Clareos uses a columnar data representation with unique compression algorithms that are optimized for large-volume data queries and disk I/O efficiency. To achieve maximum performance, Clareos is the first technology company to maintain compression throughout the entire query operation process, a significant breakthrough enabling on-demand analysis of multi-terabyte datasets.

Jason Thomas has written a .NET class that safely wraps Microsoft’s deflate methods

If you thought JPEG 2000 is not getting its fair share of attention, think again.

Scientific American: The life and death of Alan Turing continue to offer up mysteries