Billions of archives later, one programmer is still getting an invisible credit every time you unzip something.

Back in the late 1980s, using a computer required a lot of patience. In a time before cloud storage, fast internet, and multi-terabyte hard drives, transferring an electronic file could be ...

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 ...

Thompson Street Capital Partners acquired PKWARE Inc, which provides software data security. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. PKWARE, formed in 1986, developed the .ZIP file format. Its data ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...