GIF patents finally expire, four more years to go for MP3 patents. (But Unisys refuses to give up, they claim they still have more patents).

XML-WRT is a high-performance XML compressor by Przemyslaw Skibinski. It transforms XML to a more compressible form and uses zlib (default), LZMA, PPMVC, or FastPAQ8 as back-end compressor. It is similar to XMill, but has many improvements like semi-dynamic dictionary.

Storage software market grew by 8.6% in Q2 2006, I wonder how much of this was compression software.

September 2006 issue of the Data Compression Newsletter.

Anther offering by MatrixView. As always, only claims, no hard facts. Blames former employees for undermining the company image.

LAW.COM: The fierce court battle between digital video recorder pioneer TiVo Inc. and cable television giant EchoStar Communications Corp. has been shunted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which may signal the increasing role of that office. If the trend catches on, it could delay outcomes of patent disputes by years.