The Lossless Audio Blog: There is finally some activity in the development of Monkey’s Audio. A new beta has been released and the only portion that is still in beta is the user interface. The compression and decompression is fully stable.

David A. Scott submits fpaq0s, which improves compression and speed over fpaq0b (order 0 coder).

“The Diffusion Group” talks about all the hype recently generated by many companies offering Video compression solutions and all the claims made my them. Article also says why everything technically interesting might not become a market success.

ZDNet: Security vendor F-Secure issued a patch Thursday to deal with critical flaws in a number of its antivirus and Internet security products.

update of a free image compression library

Based on an advanced 3D information data-compression technology, Mitsubishi Electric, NTT DoCoMo and Pasco have jointly developed a technology to provide cellphones with three-dimensional, real-time information on routes for escape to safety in the case of natural disasters such as earthquakes.

Press Release: MX3 implements compression algorithm entirely in hardware for Virtual Tape Library (VTL) and Disk-based backup systems (based on the “deflate”). StorCompress MX3 hardware architecture includes 64-bit, 133 MHz PCI-X bus interface and multiple compression engines working in tandem to deliver compression/decompression throughputs of up to 450 MB/s and 480 MB/s respectively.

100-downloads.com is willing to suggest a few compression programs for you windows users

After a long time, we hear about PKWare still being alive and kicking.

Press Release: Sorenson Media released Squeeze 4.3, an update to its cross-platform video compression suite that brings new tools to enhance and support multimedia creation using Macromedia Flash.