A good compression utility shrinks big files down to size making them manageable enough to send efficiently over the Web or copied quickly to any storage medium. 7-Zip comes with its own graphical ...

New versions of software based on a popular file-compression technology could create headaches for users through their use of incompatible formats. For more than a decade, Zip has been the most common ...

File compression on the Mac has been around since nearly as long has the line itself has. Here are our top picks for squeezing files down as small as they can go on macOS and iOS. In 1987 - just a few ...

SlipStream Data on Wednesday unveiled SlipStream Secure Enterprise (SE) Version 2.1, an update of the company's compression software that promises to give mobile users faster access to e-mail, FTP, ...

PKWare Inc. last week said it’s trying to make it safer for users of its PKZip data compression technology to send and receive files over the Internet by adding new encryption capabilities to the ...

The compression and decompression of files is one the most useful inventions in the history of computing, but the lack of portable and open tools poses a major obstacle to making the process as useful ...

For years, I was serious about my compression software. (Anyone else remember a wonderful utility from the 1990s called ZipMagic?) In recent years, however, I’ve pretty much slipped into using the ...