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 ...

For more than a decade, Zip has been the most common format for shrinking files in order to more easily store them or transmit them over the Internet. Dozen of software programs, including tools built ...

We often work with compressed file formats, but are not always sure how they work and which format is better. By default, we mostly use an archive file format like ZIP or RAR. These formats squeeze ...

Phillip Walter Katz (November 3, 1962 – April 14, 2000) was a computer programmer best known as the co-creator of the ZIP file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for ...

In the roughly three decades since the Zip file format debuted, compressed files have been subject to widespread use—and occasional misuse. Certainly, what programmer and engineer David Fifield ...

Zip files are incredibly useful for sharing data over email, cloud storage and on a USB stick. They let you group files together, be they documents, images or audio files. And as zip files typically ...

I’ve probably opened thousands of ZIP files without thinking much about the format itself. Double-click, extract, move on. Then I learned that if you peel away the friendly folder icon and look at an ...

PKWare and WinZip, companies that have been competitors in the world of the popular Zip file format, have called a truce on the latest versions of their products in hopes of cultivating greater ...

When you open a received ZIP file, a list of file names appears. You might wonder if it is now ready to use, or if you are ...