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“BE CAREFUL what you wish for,” runs the adage, “because you might just get
it.” Well, publicity to attract finance for a revolutionary data squashing
“compression” technique was the wish of ZeoSync when it posted a press release
on its website—and publicity is what it got. But much of the comment
that’s been buzzing round the Internet has been, frankly, sceptical. Many expert
observers say they don’t see how the compression system ZeoSync claims to have
invented can possibly work. But if it does, it will boost Internet speeds and
computer memory capacities a hundredfold.

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