In late 1994, controversy was brewing over royalties being imposed on GIFs due to the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) data compression technique used to underpin this image format. Unisys, which had patented ...

Now that we know that it’s possible to use a GIF on an iPhone, let us discuss the steps that can help us find them. This is ...

Steve Wilhite, creator of the GIF, died this month. Artist and curator Jason Eppink recounts the tale of the technology behind the animated internet graphic. Steve Wilhite, inventor of the graphics ...

As we keep building on old image technology, types of file formats keep piling up, each with their own nuances and uses. JPG, PNG, and GIF have become the most common, but what sets them apart from ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIEnN1KmxKk&feature=youtu.be Microsoft has just joined the ranks of companies looking to capitalize on the success of ephemeral ...

Steve Wilhite, created of the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), yesterday announced that he was annoyed that people failed to pronounce the name of the file format correctly. Speaking to the New York ...

Stephen Wilhite, the man widely credited as being the creator of the Graphics Interchange Format image, better known as the gif, has died at the age of 74. Wilhite’s wife Kathleen has been confirming ...

A patent underlying one of the Web's most popular graphics formats is set to expire later this month, raising the question of whether a rival, open format, created as a royalty free alternative, will ...