Matt Mahoney (author of the excellent PAQ series of compressors) started a new data compression benchmark, made up of really large text files. The goal of most benchmarks is to try to find the “best overall” algorithm, this one focuses only on compressors trying to solve the problem of natural language text compression

The USPTO appears to have let a lot of the air out of the JPEG patent that Forgent Networks has been using as a cash cow.

Euclid Investors asked me to set up a BBS where they could chat about their upcoming fortunes. Ever heard the one about no good deed going unpunished?

Microsoft is tossing a new image format out on the playing field. Will this hasten my predicted demise of the JPEG format?

Vaguely PAQ like file format supporting compression and read/write operation (as zipfiles are not that well suited to read/write).

Sony has caved in to the dominance of the iPod.

Ongoing efforts to get China to swallow MPEG-2 royalty payments seem to be bearing some fruit.