Questions about the splintering of the popular .zip file compression format may soon be resolved by the U.S. Patent Office. Two months into a standards battle between WinZip Computing and PKWare over ...

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 ...

On VB columnist Joe Kunk shows you how to create and extract "almost" .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4 and standard .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4.5. The ability to compress multiple files from one or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...