Innovation exploded as individuals, brands and organizations grappled with ways to compress time and distance.
RealJukebox can automatically compress music files to save space in notoriously cramped portable MP3 players.
Mrs Crabb said the girl "skipped off" after having a compress applied to her wrist and seemed happy.
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These servers compress the pages being requested and send them on to the device which then reassembles them.
Pic Mail uses advanced video compression techniques to compress the file without loss of video quality or audio.
The cams' curved surfaces compress fuel and release exhaust as they spin, generating 24 combustions for each crankshaft revolution.
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If you compress and expand the time scale just as you like, you can make any event look inevitable.
Compress the time frame, and you have the same trickle-down operating in fashion.
We compress time in the list, so that the next events are visible.
The company had to come up with its own mastering technology to digitize the film, compress it and add security.
As a sound-absorbing pad atop the device vibrates to ambient noise, causing the zinc oxide wires to compress and release.
Skype would like to compress that period even further, to about 60 days for its Windows, Mac and iPhone software.
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The bank turned to RainStor, which can compress data by up to 97 percent, providing big savings on storage.
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Natural gas projects are complex endeavors that require specialized, sophisticated technology and services to compress or liquefy the natural gas.
The setup relies on a compressor to compress gas, which liquifies first and then evaporates, absorbing heat along the way.
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One answer is to use the energy to compress air, which can be squirrelled away in hermetically sealed underground caverns.
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The three screenwriters (Matthew Michael Carnahan, Tony Gilroy, and Billy Ray) may have been trying to compress too much into two hours.
In jet aircraft, purifying cabin air would save on fuel needed to compress fresh air bled from the engine to ventilate the cabin.
Or, to get back to our earlier metaphor, as if you could compress the entire city's sewage through a single ordinary water pipe.
Dr. Friedman said they can compress a major nerve, the lateral, femoral cutaneous nerve, that runs from the abdomen to the outer thigh.
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In addition, in order to deal with the ever increasing volume of information, society has created rigid structures to compress and channel the information.
These lasers use a novel switching system to compress their power into the tiny but immensely energetic bursts needed to explode the carbon-containing molecules.
This number needs to compress or workers face a four-day week.
Many studies have found that minimum wages compress the earnings distribution.
But newer algorithms offered by the likes of RealNetworks, Microsoft and the MPEG-4 consortium promise to compress content down to significantly fewer bits without sacrificing quality.
Nike has zigzagged over the past year, its stock falling precipitously and surging dramatically on any indication that margins were set to either expand or compress.
They're digital, all right, but because they compress incoming signals and spit them out with missing data, the result is generally inferior to plain old TV.
As broadband networks have proliferated, and companies have learned how to compress video and send it across the Web, video calling has become an easy add-on.
In an apparent response to Apple's iMovie, WinMe will include Windows Movie Maker, a tool that allows users to digitize, compress, edit, sort and share home videos.
The catalyst was Nike, which posted earnings after the bell on Thursday and, despite a top and bottom-line beat, saw profits drop 12% and margins compress.
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