Images transmitted over the world wide web are an excellent example of why data compression is important. Suppose we need to download a digitized color photograph over a computer's 33.6 kbps modem. If ...

Data compression works so well that popular backup and networking tools have some built in. Linux offers more than a dozen compression tools to choose from, and most of them let you pick a compression ...

There are two categories of data compression. The first reduces the size of a single file to save storage space and transmit faster. The second is for storage and transmission convenience. The JPEG ...

I read with enthusiasm Todd Sundsted’s “Zip Your Data and Improve the Performance of Your Network-Based Applications,” (JavaWorld, November 1998) but I was a little disappointed. When I read the title ...

With more and more embedded systems being connected, sending state information from one machine to another has become more common. However, sending large packets of data around on the network can be ...

The different types of compression can have a huge effect on your big data transfers. Knowing what types to use is important for your business. The world is generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data ...

image: A research group at Aarhus University has developed a completely new way to compress data. The new technique provides possibility to analyze data directly on compressed files. A new grant from ...

Longsys, the world's second-largest independent memory firm, might have an answer to ever-increasing SSD prices.

In a linear wireless sensor network (LWSN), sensor nodes are deployed in a linear fashion to monitor and gather data along a linear path or route. Generally, the base station collects the data from ...