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A who's who of the hardware business are being sued by Forgent Networks, a software company that claims rights over the compression technology behind the image format.
Microsoft has taken the beta tag off a plug-in to let Photoshop read and write files in the HD Photo format, which Microsoft is standardising as JPEG XR.
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