The widely used JPEG file format has lossy compression, which means that image data is lost when files are made smaller. The format was created in the 1990s; JPEG 2000, its successor, has JP2, JPX and ...

German cloud storage and file management startup doctape has launched a new standalone iOS app aimed at making it easier for iPhone and iPad users to view file types not supported natively by iOS. The ...

Last year, Box.net acquired a small company called Increo without giving much insight as to what they’d be doing with the technology. Today, we’re seeing the fruits of that acquisition: Box.net is ...

Windows only: Universal Viewer, as its name implies, aims to be a universal file viewer capable of opening almost any file, without making you hunt down required programs for unusual file types.

Chrome: When you’re browsing for files online, it’s always a bit annoying to have to download something, then open it up in a third-party application just to view it. Docs Online Viewer lets you open ...

The free doctape Viewer iOS app lets you open more than 80 different file types using an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The app is very useful, but CIO.com blogger James A. Martin found a few drawbacks.