What is the bare minimum amount of data you need to reproduce a piece of music? Researchers at the University of Rochester think they know, and are developing a new compression technology that can ...

There things stood until the age of the personal computer and the internet. A three-minute track on a CD (which is the length of a typical pop song) occupies 31,752,000 bytes, or just over 30MB.

Smith Micro Software on Wednesday announced the release of StuffIt Deluxe 12, a major new release of the popular Mac compression and archival software. StuffIt Deluxe 12 costs $79.99, and upgrades ...

Large files are difficult to share via email or through any other media without first compressing them. Windows makes it easy to compress large files through a zip process. Alternative services also ...