With WebP, Google hopes to drastically cut data-transfer barriers to Web browsing. But it's not easy to challenge JPEG's dominance. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

The Internet is full of images, and we all want them to load as fast as possible and look as good as possible. For those companies storing and serving these images, the desire is to keep the images as ...

The Guetzli project shows there's room to improve the venerable compression tech. Too bad Google's software is slow and not so practical for most sites right now. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Google has developed a compression technology that can create high-quality JPEG images in files that are 35 percent smaller than those available from today's compression techniques. Google's latest ...

Google claims that its new Guetzli software can produce JPEG files up to 35% than other available methods -- but our tests find only limited support for that claim. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Bottom line: The JPEG image format was first introduced in 1992. It is widely used on today's internet and isn't going away anytime soon. Despite the availability of modern alternatives, the humble ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jon Sneyers in his role as ...

Google Reduces JPEG Image File Sizes by 35 Percent Google's research team managed to combine excellent compression density with high visual quality resulting in a significant reduction of file sizes ...