Pegasus Imaging Corporation, Tampa, Fla, increased the speed of its JPEG 2000 compression and decompression offered in PICTools JPEG2000. Added speed improvements are under way. The PICTools JPEG2000 software development kit provides low-level C libraries delivering highly optimized lossy and lossless JPEG 2000, lossy and lossless JPEG, and CCITT G3/G4 compression, decompression, and image conversion. (800) 875-7009; www.pegasusimaging.com .