Much of the Internet congestion is caused by large-sized e-mails.
Now, the Chinese people have produced a key technology by
developing an extraction software, SmartComprez, to slim cumbersome
files, and the software has been granted a US patent, according to
a recent announcement by the Regulatory Committee of Zhongguancun
Science Park and the Institute of Software,
Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CAS)
Bai Chunli, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
attended the press conference held in Beijing on June 18 and
offered his congratulations to the first home made software to gain
a US patent. "The reason so few made-in-China products could be
found in the IT field is that we do not have the intellectual
rights for certain key technology," said Bai, "and I was very glad
to see one of the CAS affiliates make a breakthrough in the
software field."
Internet congestion has become a big headache with more and more
people log-on worldwide. A high quality picture usually occupies
several thousand kilobytes. Thus to slim the files and emails has
been the high-end technological target sought by software
producers. Experts from the Global Network Co., the CAS affiliate
company producing SmartComprez software, said their products can
compress a picture to one twentieth of its original size, while the
most commonly used foreign extraction software at present can only
achieve a few-fold reduction. Other industry experts thought the
software has achieved international leading position.
In
order to push SmartComprez on to the market, the software can be
downloaded from www.net99.com.cn for a two-month trial without
charge.
(China.org.cn by James Liu, June 24, 2002)