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In a tiny office in West Palm Beach, Fla., a handful of clunky computers are crunching through a software problem that many consider unsolvable. These are the offices of ZeoSync, a start-up that made ...

With the Windows 8.1 Update, Microsoft shrank the Windows 8.1 install footprint to make it suitable for low-cost tablets with just 16GB of permanent storage, a reduction from the 32GB generally ...

Optimizing data compression methods has become more critical than ever for cloud storage, data management, and streaming applications. Working with compressed data reduces network bandwidth, data ...

FREMONT, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) introduced the industry's first hardware-accelerated backup-to-disk data ...

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A novel technique rethinks hardware data compression to free up more memory used by computers and mobile devices, allowing them to run faster and perform more tasks simultaneously. A novel technique ...

Smplify CEO Al Wegener reviews the many ways files are compressed in personal computer systems, including the "x" extension on Windows files, Windows "Disc-Compress," Lempel-Ziv (LZ) for OpenXML, MLC ...

Microsoft has just outed Data Sense, a new app for Windows Phone 8 that helps ensure you don't burn through your data plan. On top of tracking your usage app-by-app, it compresses every single web ...

Data compression is critical to cloud and data streaming applications by reducing data transfer times and storage utilization. But compressing and decompressing data consumes processor resources and ...

The ‘CRIME’ attack announced last week exploits the data compression scheme used by the TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SPDY protocols to decrypt user authentication cookies from HTTPS (HTTP Secure ...

Users of the popular file-compression tool are urged to immediately update after a serious code-execution flaw was found in WinRAR. Popular Windows data compression tool WinRAR has patched a serious ...