Reducing costs is a key consideration for every IT budget. One of the items looked at most closely is the cost of a company's bandwidth. Using content compression on a Web site is one way to reduce ...

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 ...

Gzip (GNU zip) is a free and Open Source algorithm for file compression. The software is overseen by the GNU project. A gzip file has the extension .gz and contains a 10-byte header, optional extra ...