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Компания Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) сегодня анонсировала новую версию мобильного браузера BOLT(TM), который теперь доступен и с интерфейсом пользователя на русском языке. BOLT 1.7 поддерживает русский язык, самый географически распространенный язык в Евразии, наиболее распространенный из славянских языков и родной язык для наибольшего числа жителей Европы. Кроме того, улучшены характеристики потокового видео и поддерживаются виджеты для бесплатного мобильного браузера. С июня прошлого года мобильный браузер BOLT воспроизводит кириллические шрифты на веб-сайтах, а теперь пользователи могут также сделать русский язык языком по умолчанию интерфейса пользователя. Благодаря новым функциям и улучшениям использование быстрого как молния, бескомпромиссного браузера для телефонов всех типов BOLT стало еще совершеннее и проще для пользователей BOLT по всему миру.

К первой годовщине BOLT число пользователей этого мобильного браузера превысило 4 миллиона, просмотрено более 135 миллионов минут потокового видео (эквивалентно 256 годам), открыто более 512 миллионов страниц (порядка 3 миллионов страниц в день) и загружено более 132 терабайт данных.

BOLT является единственным мобильным браузером для всех типов мобильных телефонов, поддерживающим просмотр потокового видео с многочисленных сайтов, таких как RuTube, YouTube, Yahoo, Google, MySpace и многих других. Теперь пользователи могут просматривать видео, размещенные на CNN и ESPN, а также вложенные YouTube видео на любом сайте.

BOLT отлично воспроизводит веб-страницы так же, как они выглядят в браузере настольного компьютера, превосходя конкурирующие мобильные браузеры и набрав великолепные 100 процентов по тесту Web Standards Project Acid3. Тест Acid3, который был создан, чтобы помочь производителям браузеров обеспечить надлежащую поддержку веб-стандартов в своих продуктах, тестирует динамические веб-приложения Web 2.0 и визуальное воспроизведение, включая веб-шрифты. Созданный на основе J2ME и способный функционировать на телефонах всех типов, BOLT может работать примерно на 3 миллиардах телефонов, уже находящихся в использовании. Созданная специально для смартфонов BlackBerry версия BOLT поддерживает все функции BOLT, а также горячие клавиши по умолчанию и оптимизации BlackBerry.

Уникальные возможности BOLT включают:

• Полное отображение веб-сайтов так, как они выглядят на настольных компьютерах
• Большая скорость загрузки страниц
• Потоковое видео с популярных видеосервисов, таких как RuTube и YouTube
• Сжатие данных до степени 24:1
• Копирование и вставка текста
• Выгрузка видео- и фотофайлов на веб-сайты прямо из браузера
• Единственный распространенный браузер на основе WebKit с облачной обработкой данных
• Шесть уровней увеличения

Новые функции BOLT 1.7 также включают:

Виджеты
Хотя BOLT уже демонстрирует основанные на интернет-технологии приложения, написанные на Ajax, Javascript и других языках интернет-программирования, такие как популярная Facebook-игра Mafia Wars и Google Docs, в BOLT 1.7 добавлена функциональность виджетов. Сейчас, в бета-версии, виджеты BOLT позволяют пользователю устанавливать небольшие независимые веб-приложения, работающие непосредственно из BOLT. Благодаря тому, что эти виджеты устанавливаются прямо в BOLT, они загружаются и выполняются быстрее приложений на базе веб-сайтов, обеспечивая пользователям более широкий выбор утилит для их мобильных телефонов. Пользователи BOLT могут находить, выбирать и устанавливать определенные веб-приложения через галерею виджетов BOLT.

Виджеты BOLT пишутся как стандартные виджеты W3C (www.w3.org/TR/widgets/). Этот стандарт широко поддерживается в отрасли.

Интеграция Twitter
Теперь BOLT включает более легкий способ размещения твитов в Twitter. В BOLT 1.7 возможности Twitter встроены в сам браузер. Теперь пользователи могут размещать твиты прямо из BOLT во время веб-серфинга.

Учитывая тот факт, что некоторые находящиеся сейчас в использовании мобильные телефоны не могут поддерживать полноразмерные приложения, а некоторые провайдеры ограничивают размер загружаемых приложений, Bitstream также предлагает облегченную версию мобильного браузера BOLT, BOLT Lite(TM). BOLT Lite включает в себя все основные функции мобильного браузера BOLT, сохраняя богатую возможностями функциональность BOLT, лучшие в своем классе скорости загрузки и разметку страницы в стиле ПК в пакете меньшего размера, оптимизированном для устройств низкого уровня.

BOLT и BOLT Lite доступны для бесплатной загрузки на http://boltbrowser.com.

Информация о Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. занимается разработкой программных технологий и приложений для отраслей графического искусства и мобильной связи. Удостоенные наград шрифты и технологии шрифтов Bitstream позволяют производителям устройств и разработчикам технологий воспроизводить текст высочайшего качества на любом языке, любом устройстве и с любым разрешением. Торговая марка компании MyFonts является лидирующим мировым поставщиком шрифтов потребителям. Торговая марка Bitstream Pageflex позволяет маркетологам легко производить на заказ средства передачи информации в печатной форме, с помощью электронной почты и в режиме онлайн. Последним предложением компании является мобильный браузер BOLT, уже установленный миллионами пользователей по всему миру с момента его выхода в феврале 2009 г.

Чтобы получить дополнительную информацию, посетите www.bitstream.com.

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) anunció hoy día que se encuentra disponible una nueva versión del navegador móvil BOLT(TM) con una interfaz de usuario en español. El navegador móvil gratuito BOLT 1.7 brinda soporte en español, el segundo idioma más hablado del mundo por el número de personas que lo tienen como lengua materna, mejores prestaciones de streaming de video y soporte para widgets. Las nuevas prestaciones y mejoras del producto hacen que los usuarios de BOLT de todo el mundo puedan navegar a alta velocidad en cualquier tipo de teléfono.

Al cumplirse el primer aniversario de BOLT, el aclamado navegador móvil ha superado los cuatro millones de usuarios, ha transmitido continuamente más de 135 millones de minutos de video (equivalente a 256 años si se reproducen en cadena), ha servido más de 512 millones de páginas –un promedio de tres millones de páginas por día, y se descargaron más de 132 terabytes de datos.

BOLT es el único navegador para cualquier clase de teléfonos móviles que soporta el streaming de video de varios sitios para compartir videos como YouTube, Yahoo, Google, MySpace y muchos otros. Ahora los usuarios pueden ver videos posteados en CNN y ESPN, así como mirar videos de YouTube embebidos en cualquier sitio.

BOLT presenta las páginas Web exactamente como se verían en los navegadores de escritorio, superando a los navegadores móviles rivales al obtener una puntuación perfecta (100%) en la prueba Acid3 del Proyecto de Estándares Web. Acid3, creada con la finalidad de ayudar a los vendedores de navegadores a garantizar el soporte adecuado de los estándares Web en sus productos, prueba las aplicaciones dinámicas de Web 2.0 y la representación visual, incluso las fuentes Web. Construido en J2ME y capaz de funcionar en cualquier tipo de teléfono, BOLT se puede utilizar en unos 3.000 millones de teléfonos que ya se encuentran en el mercado. Una versión de BOLT creada especialmente para los BlackBerry incluye todas las funciones de BOLT, al igual que comandos directos y optimizaciones preestablecidos de BlackBerry.

Estas son las capacidades únicas de BOLT:

• Mostrar los sitios completos tal como aparecerían en las
  computadoras de escritorio
• Velocidades rápidas de carga de página
• Streaming de video desde servicios populares como YouTube
• Compresión de datos de hasta 24:1
• Copiar y pegar texto
• Subir archivos de video y fotos directamente a los sitios desde el
  navegador
• Único navegador con tecnología “computación en nube” basado en
  WebKit
• Seis niveles de aumento

Las nuevas características de BOLT 1.7 también comprenden:

Widgets

Aunque BOLT ya ejecuta aplicaciones Web escritas en Ajax, Javascript y en otros lenguajes de programación Web, tal como el popular juego Mafia Wars de Facebook y Google Docs, BOLT 1.7 agrega la funcionalidad de los widgets. Actualmente en la fase beta, los widgets de BOLT permiten que los usuarios instalen pequeñas aplicaciones Web autocontenidas que corren directamente desde dentro de BOLT. Debido a que estos widgets están instalados directamente dentro de BOLT, se cargan y ejecutan con más rapidez que las aplicaciones basadas en sitios Web, dándole a los usuarios una mayor variedad de utilidad para sus teléfonos móviles. Los usuarios de BOLT pueden descubrir, seleccionar e instalar aplicaciones Web específicas de la Galería de widgets de BOLT. Estos widgets están escritos como widgets de W3C estandarizados (www.w3.org/TR/widgets/), un estándar que cuenta con el amplio respaldo de la industria.

Integración en Twitter

BOLT incluye ahora una forma más sencilla de postear “tweets” en Twitter. BOLT 1.7 ha integrado las capacidades de Twitter en el propio navegador. Ahora los usuarios pueden postear “tweets” directamente desde BOLT al tiempo que navegan por Internet.

Dado que algunos teléfonos móviles actualmente en uso no soportan la aplicación completa y algunos proveedores de red limitan el tamaño de las descargas de aplicaciones, Bitstream ofrece también una versión ligera del navegador móvil BOLT, BOLT Lite(TM). BOLT Lite tiene todas las características esenciales del navegador BOLT, conservando la funcionalidad rica en prestaciones de BOLT, las velocidades de descarga más rápidas en su género y la distribución de página estilo.

BOLT y BOLT Lite están disponibles para su descarga gratuita en http://boltbrowser.com.

Acerca de Bitstream

Bitstream Inc. se dedica al desarrollo de tecnologías y aplicaciones de software para las industrias de arte gráfico y comunicaciones móviles. Las fuentes y las tecnologías de fuentes galardonadas de Bitstream posibilitan que los fabricantes de dispositivos y los desarrolladores de aplicaciones presenten el texto de la más alta calidad en cualquier idioma, en cualquier dispositivo y en cualquier resolución. La marca MyFonts de la empresa es el principal proveedor del mundo en lo que se refiere a fuentes para consumidores. La marca Pageflex de Bitstream permite que los comerciantes produzcan con facilidad comunicaciones personalizadas en forma impresa, por correo electrónico y en línea. La última oferta de la empresa es el navegador móvil BOLT, que ha sido instalado por millones de usuarios en todo el mundo desde su lanzamiento en febrero de 2009. Para obtener más información, visite www.bitstream.com.

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Exactly one year after its public debut, Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced a new version of the BOLT™ Mobile Browser, which makes the lightning fast uncompromised browsing experience for phones of all types even better with new features and enhancements. The 1.7 release of BOLT offers increased functionality and usability, with new features including direct Twitter integration, Spanish and Russian language support, an enhanced download manager, increased streaming video features and the ability to run widgets. Bitstream is showcasing BOLT 1.7 to OEMs and carriers at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 15 to February 18 in booth number 1A70.

As BOLT marks its first anniversary, the acclaimed mobile browser has surpassed 4 million users, streamed over 135 million minutes of video (equivalent to 256 years if played back to back), served more than 512 million pages – as many as 3 million pages per day, and downloaded more than 132 terabytes of data – an amount that’s double the size of the entire digital collection of the U.S. Library of Congress.

“The past year was both exciting and intense as BOLT’s developers learned what features were most important to its users, and how desired features would mesh with manufacturing trends in mobile handsets and the evolution of the Internet,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream. “Before we launched BOLT we knew that Bitstream engineers and developers built a remarkable foundation on which we could continue to evolve the BOLT mobile browser, and the positive support and constant feedback we received from a great many of our 4 million helped us prioritize the features and enhancements in each successive release. But as excited as we were for the first year of BOLT, the next year promises to be more dynamic as we plan to introduce features that took longer to engineer and we add more handset manufacturers to the roster of those preloading BOLT on mobile phones.”

International Localization
With BOLT being used by people in more than 100 countries, Bitstream has added language support so more users can use BOLT with a user interface in their own language. The 1.7 version of BOLT now includes options for English, Spanish and Russian languages.

Widgets
Although BOLT already runs web-based applications written in Ajax, Javascript and other Web programming languages, such as the popular Facebook game Mafia Wars and Google Docs, BOLT 1.7 is adding widget functionality. Now in beta, BOLT widgets allow users to install small self-contained Web applications that run directly from within BOLT. Because these widgets are installed directly within BOLT they load and execute faster than website-based applications, giving users a wider variety of utility for their mobile phones. BOLT users can discover, select and install specific Web apps through a BOLT Widget Gallery. BOLT’s widgets are written as standard W3C widgets (www.w3.org/TR/widgets/), a standard with broad industry support.

Twitter Integration
One of the new enhancements to BOLT is an easier way to post tweets to Twitter. BOLT 1.7 has integrated Twitter capabilities into the browser itself. Now users can post tweets directly from BOLT while they browse the Web.

Usability Enhancements
BOLT 1.7 now features keypad shortcuts that make zooming in and out of Web content as simple as a click of a button. Users can now scale text and images without having to change the zoom presets in their preferences.

BOLT is the only mobile browser for all types of mobile phones to support streaming video from multiple video sharing websites such as YouTube, Yahoo, Google, RuTube, MySpace and more. Now users can watch videos posted in CNN and ESPN, as well as watch embedded YouTube videos on any website.

For users on networks that support socket connections, BOLT v1.7 now offers automatic socket support resulting in a 15 percent speed increase for most users. Previous versions of BOLT offered socket support that had to be manually configured by the user.

BOLT 1.7 features an upgraded download manager that supports multiple simultaneous downloads as well as the ability to pause and restart an active download.

Milestones

BOLT was launched as a public beta on February 16, 2009, and has been widely acclaimed since then. Frequently named a “must have” download and consistently receiving rave product reviews, BOLT has achieved a number of important milestones, including:

• Outscoring competing mobile browsers by earning a perfect 100 percent on the Web Standards Project’s Acid3 test, meaning BOLT offers the most accurate website rendering
• Installed more than 4 million times in more than 100 countries
• Supporting thousands of different handset makes and models
• Streaming over 130 million minutes of video
• Serving 132 terabytes of data
• Selected by handset manufacturers in Europe and Asia to be the default browser preloaded on new lines of mobile phones

BOLT’s Unique Capabilities include:

• Best of breed page load speeds
• Most accurate page rendering
• Best of breed data compression
• Displays full websites just as they would appear on desktop computers
• Streams videos from popular video services such as YouTube
• Copy and paste text
• Uploads video and photo files directly to websites from browser
• Only major WebKit based cloud computing browser
• FOTA updates
• Six levels of magnification

Recognizing that some mobile phones currently in use cannot support the full size application and some network providers limit the size of application downloads, Bitstream also offers a light version of the BOLT mobile browser, BOLT LiteTM. BOLT Lite contains all the essential features of the BOLT mobile browser, retaining BOLT’s feature-rich functionality, best-of-breed download speeds and desktop PC-style page layout in a smaller package optimized for entry-level devices.

BOLT and BOLT Lite are both available for free download at http://boltbrowser.com.

About BOLT
The acclaimed BOLT mobile browser has the most faithful rendering of Web pages of any browser in its class. This fast mobile browser quickly and accurately displays Web pages on mobile phones just as they would appear on desktop computers. BOLT is the only browser for mobile phones of all types to support streaming video from popular media sharing sites such as YouTube and MySpace. Based on the same WebKit rendering engine used by the iPhone’s Safari and Android’s Chrome browsers, BOLT is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones. BOLT features a patented split-screen viewing mode, intuitive keystroke shortcuts and copy/paste functionality, and offers a user-friendly, feature-rich mobile browsing experience for even entry-level mobile phones. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. develops software technologies and applications for the graphic art and mobile communications industries. Bitstream’s award-winning fonts and font technologies enable device manufacturers and application developers to render the highest quality text in any language, on any device, at any resolution. The company’s MyFonts brand is the world’s leading provider of fonts to consumers. Bitstream’s Pageflex brand enables marketers to easily produce customized communications in print, email, and online. The company’s latest offering is the BOLT mobile browser, which has been installed by millions of users worldwide since its release in February 2009. For more information visit www.bitstream.com.

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced that the forthcoming version of its BOLT™ mobile browser will include the ability to run Web applications, commonly referred to as “widgets.” Since BOLT is a Web browser that works on mobile phones of all types, the addition of Web apps will give BOLT users increased functionality on their mobile phones. The new BOLT Widgets capability will be introduced in beta as part of the forthcoming 1.7 version of BOLT, to be released to the public at Mobile World Congress on February 15, 2010.

Although BOLT already runs website-based applications written in Ajax, Javascript and other Web programming languages, such as the popular Facebook game Mafia Wars and Google Docs, the new Web apps will be installed directly within BOLT and thus will load and execute even faster. BOLT users will be able to discover, select and install specific applications through the BOLT Widget Gallery. BOLT will display an iconic list of all installed apps, allowing users to quickly find and use them directly within BOLT.

“As many of the recent mobile and wireless trade shows have demonstrated, mobile applications are part of the mainstream mobile experience,” said Sampo Kaasila, vice president of research and development at Bitstream. “However, the vast majority of phones in use today are ‘feature phones’ not smartphones. Unfortunately for the users of these billions of feature phones, it isn’t easy to find, install and run mobile applications. By adding Web apps to BOLT, Bitstream is not only improving the usability of our mobile browser, we are also making it possible for literally billions of people to partake in the mobile apps revolution.”

BOLT is a server-assisted browser that has been shown to have the most accurate page rendering of any mobile browser in its class, receiving a perfect 100 percent in the Acid3 page rendering test. Using this same cloud computing technology to support Web applications allows BOLT to offer increased functionality to the broad spectrum of devices BOLT already runs on, even the most basic mobile phones.

At its launch, Bitstream will have an initial set of sample applications available in its Beta Widget Gallery. BOLT Web applications are written as standard W3C widgets (www.w3.org/TR/widgets/), a standard with broad industry support.

Bitstream will be showcasing its new version of BOLT to OEMs and Carriers at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 15 to February 18 in booth number 1A70.

About BOLT
The acclaimed BOLT mobile browser has the most faithful rendering of Web pages of any browser in its class. This fast mobile browser quickly and accurately displays Web pages on mobile phones just as they would appear on desktop computers. BOLT is the only browser for mobile phones of all types to support streaming video from popular media sharing sites such as YouTube and MySpace. Based on the same WebKit rendering engine used by the iPhone’s Safari and Android’s Chrome browsers, BOLT is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones. BOLT features a patented split-screen viewing mode, intuitive keystroke shortcuts and copy/paste functionality, and offers a user-friendly, feature-rich mobile browsing experience for even entry-level mobile phones. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. develops software technologies and applications for the graphic art and mobile communications industries. Bitstream’s award-winning fonts and font technologies enable device manufacturers and application developers to render the highest quality text in any language, on any device, at any resolution. The company’s MyFonts brand is the world’s leading provider of fonts to consumers. Bitstream’s Pageflex brand enables marketers to easily produce customized communications in print, email, and online. The company’s latest offering is the BOLT mobile browser, which has been installed by millions of users worldwide since its release in February 2009. For more information visit www.bitstream.com.

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today its BOLT™ mobile browser finished 2009 with more than 3.3 million downloads and rendered more than 380 million Web pages. Debuting in beta from Mobile World Congress in February 2009, BOLT capped off a spectacular inaugural year with a long list of industry accolades and handset manufacture deals as proof points to its growing success.

“Bitstream’s further expansion into the mobile browser space via BOLT can be counted as a success by all measures,” said Anna Chagnon, Bitstream president and CEO. “With BOLT, Bitstream delivered a high quality product that immediately became a fan favorite. Bitstream listened to user feedback and made incremental improvements over the course of 2009, earning BOLT even more good favor with its users, and attracting the attention of handset manufactures who are preloading BOLT as the default mobile browser on new devices they are building. While Bitstream toasts to a successful 2009, the company is looking forward to an even more flourishing 2010.”

BOLT is exiting 2009 with an average download rate of nearly 10,000 accounts created daily by people all over the world. The BOLT mobile browser is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones and is built on a WebKit architecture that offers the most accurate desktop-style page rendering of any mobile browser. With advanced features such as the ability to stream video from the most popular video websites, copy and paste, upload files such as photos and videos to websites, manage passwords and order and arrange favorites into custom folders, BOLT is also the most fully-featured mobile browser available on the market today.

In 2009, people worldwide discovered BOLT’s enhanced browsing experience led them to spend more and more time surfing the Web from their mobile phones. In addition to social networking, search, web-based email and video websites are top ten destinations for BOLT users all around the world.

People particularly enjoy the video streaming feature of the BOLT browser. BOLT, the only Web browser that lets people view streaming video from a wide variety of video websites on mobile phones of all types, transcoded and streamed more than 109 million minutes of video in 2009 – that’s more than 206 years worth of continuous video.

In its first year, BOLT earned a number of industry accolades, including:

• 2009 Mobile Star Awards: Superstar Award in Consumer App: Web Browser category
• 2009 Stevie Awards: Bitstream was a finalist for Most Innovative Company of the Year, and Bitstream CEO, Anna Chagnon, was named Best Executive
• Tech Awards Circle: Bronze Award for Best Consumer/SOHO Software
• Webware 100 Award Finalist: BOLT Mobile Browser named finalist for Browsing category
• PC Magazine 4 star rating (out of 5)

Favored by BlackBerry users worldwide, BOLT has earned a reputation as the go-to replacement for the native BlackBerry browser. PC Magazine named BOLT #4 in its December 2009 “Top 20 Free Blackberry Apps” article, giving it a 4 (out of 5) star rating, while Filter Magazine named BOLT #2 on its 2009 list of “Top Blackberry Apps,” Laptop Magazine named BOLT #1 on its 2009 list of “Top 10 Blackberry Apps,” Wireless and Mobile News named BOLT to its list of “Top 10 Best Free Blackberry Tour Apps,” and BerryReporter.com named BOLT as the only browser on its list of “5 Blackberry Apps Every Social Media Junkie Should Have” due to BOLT’s superior rendering accuracy and rich-media support. During the recent BlackBerry outages in December 2009 many BlackBerry users were happy to find that they could still use their smartphones with BOLT to tweet, surf the Web, and stay connected, while those users without BOLT were left completely disconnected.

BOLT has also received several accolades for its strong support of entry-level feature phones, including being named #2 on Appboy’s list of 2009’s top 10 free mobile Apps and being named the best mobile browser for LG feature phones by Wireless and Mobile News.

BOLT 2009 Year in Review

Q1 2009:

• BOLT introduced in private beta to select mobile enthusiasts and industry bloggers
• Al Sacco names BOLT one of “Five Free BlackBerry Must-Have Downloads” in CIO and PC World
• BOLT launched in Public Beta from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
• BOLT hits 300,000 users and 15 million web pages rendered

Q2 2009:

• New Beta Version of BOLT Mobile Browser launched
• India becomes the largest market of BOLT users outside of the United States
• Mobile.blorge.com names BOLT one of “Top 40 best free Blackberry Apps”
• BOLT hits one million download mark
• BOLT Beta3 released with copy/paste and media upload features

Q3 2009:

• BOLT renders its 100 millionth page
• BOLT renders 1 million pages in a single day
• Cyrillic language support welcomes users from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
• BOLT lite™ launched
• BerryReporter names BOLT one of “5 BlackBerry Apps Every Social Media Junkie Should Have”
• Wireless and Mobile News names BOLT one of the “Top Ten Best Free Blackberry Tour Apps

Q4 2009:

• BOLT blasts out of beta at CTIA
• BOLT selected as default Web browser for mobile phones in Indonesia in deal with K-Touch Mobile
• BOLT strikes Eastern-European distribution deal as default Web browser on Allview handsets
• Bitstream Inc. CEO, Anna Chagnon, named best executive in 6th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business
• Laptop Magazine names BOLT to its list of “Top 10 Blackberry Apps”
• PC Magazine names BOLT to its list of “Top 20 Free Blackberry Apps,” and awards BOLT 4 star rating (out of 5)
• BOLT Browser 1.6 released with ability for BlackBerry users to set BOLT as default browser
• BOLT 1.6 achieves perfect 100 percent score on Acid3 test
• BOLT named Best Mobile Browser in 2009 Mobile Star Awards
• BOLT exits 2009 with more than 3.1 million downloads

About BOLT
The acclaimed BOLT mobile browser has the most faithful rendering of Web pages of any browser in its class. This fast mobile browser quickly and accurately displays Web pages on mobile phones just as they would appear on desktop computers. BOLT is the only browser for mobile phones of all types to support streaming video from popular media sharing sites such as YouTube and MySpace. Based on the same WebKit rendering engine used by the iPhone’s Safari and Android’s Chrome browsers, BOLT is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones. BOLT features a patented split-screen viewing mode, intuitive keystroke shortcuts and copy/paste functionality, and offers a user-friendly, feature-rich mobile browsing experience for even entry-level mobile phones. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. develops software technologies and applications for the graphic art and mobile communications industries. Bitstream’s award-winning fonts and font technologies enable device manufacturers and application developers to render the highest quality text in any language, on any device, at any resolution. The company’s MyFonts brand is the world’s leading provider of fonts to consumers. Bitstream’s Pageflex brand enables marketers to easily produce customized communications in print, email, and online. The company’s latest offering is the BOLT mobile browser, which has been installed by millions of users worldwide since its release in February 2009. For more information visit www.bitstream.com.

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today its BOLT™ mobile browser took top honors in the eighth annual Mobile Star Awards™ program, winning the SUPERSTAR award in the Consumer App: Web Browser category. Other nominees in this category included Apple – Safari for iPhone, Opera Mobile and Skyfire.

The Mobile Star Awards recognize the top mobile products, success stories and visionaries as chosen by the readers of technology news portal MobileVillage’s Go Mobile™ newsletter. The SUPERSTAR award is the highest honor given to Mobile Star Award winners.

Downloaded over 3 million times since its February 2009 debut, BOLT is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones and is built on a WebKit architecture that offers the most accurate desktop-style page rendering of any mobile browser.

With advanced features like the ability to stream video from the most popular video websites, copy and paste, upload files such as photos and videos to websites, and order and arrange favorites into custom folders, BOLT is also the most fully-featured mobile browser available on the market today.

“We designed BOLT with the average user in mind, focusing on providing the lightning fast speed that people desire from their mobile phones while maintaining the desktop-style page rendering people prefer,” says Anna Chagnon, Bitstream CEO. “I congratulate the entire Bitstream team on this Mobile Star Award. Their hard work and innovative ideas have allowed BOLT to quickly become a crowd favorite, while changing the competitive landscape of the mobile browsing space.”

BOLT was selected as the SUPERSTAR winner by subscribers of MobileVillage’s Go Mobile™ – an e-newsletter that delivers headlines and links from top mobile technology stories on popular websites such as CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Computerworld, and AppScout. “Go Mobile” was launched nearly ten years ago and is now published every three weeks for thousands of readers.

“Because ‘Go Mobile’ readers are the industry’s most savvy mobile business users, Mobile Star Awards winners can claim they are the users’ choice,” says Jon Covington, MobileVillage founder and president. “BOLT was chosen by real users based on real results, not hype. This was a tough category and BOLT has shown it is the new leader to watch in mobile browsing.”

For more information about the annual Mobile Star Awards, visit MobileVillage.com.

About BOLT
The acclaimed BOLT mobile browser has the most faithful rendering of Web pages of any browser in its class. This fast mobile browser quickly and accurately displays Web pages on mobile phones just as they would appear on desktop computers. BOLT is the only browser for mobile phones of all types to support streaming video from popular media sharing sites such as YouTube and MySpace. Based on the same WebKit rendering engine used by the iPhone’s Safari and Android’s Chrome browsers, BOLT is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones. BOLT features a patented split-screen viewing mode, intuitive keystroke shortcuts and copy/paste functionality, and offers a user-friendly, feature-rich mobile browsing experience for even entry-level mobile phones. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. develops software technologies and applications for the graphic art and mobile communications industries. Bitstream’s award-winning fonts and font technologies enable device manufacturers and application developers to render the highest quality text in any language, on any device, at any resolution. The company’s MyFonts brand is the world’s leading provider of fonts to consumers. Bitstream’s Pageflex brand enables marketers to easily produce customized communications in print, email, and online. The company’s latest offering is the BOLT mobile browser, which has been installed by millions of users worldwide since its release in February 2009. For more information visit www.bitstream.com.

About MobileVillage / PDA Inc.
Founded in 1993, MobileVillage is a market and solution development company dedicated to advancing mobile and wireless technology in a wide range of industries. MobileVillage accomplishes this by fostering education and alliances through “Best of Breed” solution identification, event partnerships, an online industry directory, industry job postings, daily online news, its widely respected Go Mobile™ newsletter, a Mobile Mentors™ program, and popular annual Mobile Star Awards™ program. Visit MobileVillage online at www.MobileVillage.com.

MobileVillage^®, the Mobile Star Awards™, and Go Mobile™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of MobileVillage / PDA Inc.

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS), announced today the commercial availability of BOLT^TM 1.5, the fastest mobile Web browser for mobile phones of all types. After eight months of testing that saw previous versions of BOLT downloaded millions of times all around the world, Bitstream unleashed today the fastest, most fully-featured mobile browser available anywhere. The new BOLT 1.5 mobile browser is free to download to your mobile phone from http://boltbrowser.com, bringing desktop-style Web browsing to mobile phones of all types.

From simple cell phones to BlackBerry smartphones, BOLT delivers advanced browsing features like the ability to zoom in and out of Web pages, cut and paste text from a Web page, adjust the viewing magnification up to four times the normal size, post videos and photos to your favorite websites and even stream videos from popular sites like YouTube and MySpace.

“The browser on my mobile phone was terrible,” said Josh, a high school student in Southern California. “I hated using it because it was slow and it forced me to look at mobile versions of websites that didn’t show all of the features and details of the site that I wanted to see. BOLT gives me the full website, just like my brother has on his iPhone, but I can watch videos, instant message my friends on Facebook and see the Web I want to see, without having to use my computer. BOLT is awesome!”

Surfing the Web with the BOLT browser also means you’ll eat up less data from your data plan than with competing browsers because BOLT uses a special compression technology to conserve resources.

“We know painfully slow mobile browsing speeds are one of the biggest discouragements for people who want to surf the Web from their phones,” says Anna Chagnon, Bitstream CEO. “We designed BOLT with the average user in mind, and focused on fixing the issues where mobile browsing fell short in the user’s experience. BOLT delivered from day one with industry leading speed and a feature set that people couldn’t previously get on a regular mobile phone. And with our commercial launch today we’ve raised that bar even higher, bringing more speed and a feature set that users are going to love.”

Visit http://boltbrowser.com for your free download of the BOLT mobile browser today and find out what the Internet was meant to look like from your mobile phone. Become of fan of BOLT Browser on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/boltbrowser.

About BOLT:
BOLT is the fastest mobile browser currently available – routinely at least 25 to 50 percent faster than the next fastest – and is the only J2ME browser that supports streaming video from popular media sharing sites like YouTube and MySpace. BOLT is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones and is built on a WebKit architecture that offers the most accurate desktop-style page rendering of any mobile browser. BOLT’s PC-level Web support, patented split-screen viewing mode, intuitive keystroke shortcuts and copy/paste functionality offer a user-friendly, feature-rich mobile browsing experience on even entry-level mobile phones. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream:
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company focused on bringing unique software products to a wide variety of markets. The company’s core software products include award-winning fonts and font rendering software, mobile browsing and variable data publishing and web-to-print software for personalized marketing. For more information about Bitstream please visit www.bitstream.com.

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced its first commercial release of the BOLT^TM mobile browser, ending eight months of public beta testing that saw the browser downloaded more than 2 million times, rendering in excess of 200 million Web pages. Building on the user experiences and feedback from beta users in more than 190 countries and territories around the world, the company is today making available version 1.5, its fastest, most capable mobile browser to date.

BOLT displays full Web pages just as they appear on desktop computers. In comprehensive speed testing of a variety of Web pages from different websites, BOLT was routinely 25 to 50 percent faster than the next fastest mobile browser. With advanced features like the ability to stream video from the most popular video websites, copy and paste, upload files such as photos and videos to websites, and order and arrange favorites into custom folders, BOLT is also the most fully-featured mobile browser. Built in J2ME and able to operate on phones of all types, BOLT can work on an estimated 3 billion phones already in the market. A version of BOLT created specifically for BlackBerry smartphones includes all the features of BOLT but also includes default BlackBerry shortcuts and optimizations.

“Eight months ago at Mobile World Congress when we first made BOLT available, we had no set date for when we would emerge from beta,” said Anna Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream. “We were focused on one mission: building the most capable Web browser that could transform virtually any mobile device into a practical Internet tool. We owe a big debt of gratitude to the loyal BOLT end users who provided invaluable feedback and helped us build for them and others what we believe to be a truly important mobile application.”

Built with proprietary compression, navigation and rendering technologies, BOLT enables users to find and read information quickly and easily. Once users have navigated to the specific section of the large Web page they are viewing, they can then zoom in to display clear text and images that look crisp on even small mobile phone screens or low-end phones. Employing the Webkit 4.0 rendering and layout engine, BOLT offers users the most accurate rendering of complex Web pages available on mobile phones.

The new BOLT 1.5 includes all the features in previous beta versions plus important new features and service enhancements to improve reliability, usability and speed.

BOLT’s beta feature set included:

• Fast, secure, desktop-style web browsing on both high-end and low-end handsets
• Streaming video capabilities
• Split screen and full screen modes for easy navigation and viewing
• Easily add and select favorites and view browsing history
• Intuitive keystroke shortcuts for easier navigation and content selection
• Protection against spyware and malicious or faulty add-ons
• 23:1 compression uses less data than competing browsers

New features and enhancements to BOLT 1.5 include:

• Cache Support to speed users’ ability to move quickly back and forth between the currently and previously viewed Web pages through the use of backward and forward navigation.
• Download Manager for easy download of files directly from BOLT and the ability to save them to specific folders on the mobile phone (requires JSR75 support on the device).
• Support for Streaming Videos of Any Length that overcomes limitations on some phones’ ability to stream videos of longer lengths. The new approach ensures video clips will play on all devices, for any length video.
• Video Wizard to assist users in configuring their device for optimal video playback.
• Dedicated Search Bar on home page, for easier and faster online searches.
• Improved Ability to Manage RSS Feeds by allowing users to arrange and file feeds just as they do with their favorites and bookmarks.
• Enhancements for Touch Screen Devices such as simple volume controls for the BOLT media player which now offers volume controls on the screen.
• Enhancements for BOLT Servers in the cloud, which increase the already fast BOLT mobile browser by an additional 10 to 20 percent.

A complete list of the features and information about BOLT 1.5 can be found at http://boltbrowser.com.

Bitstream added more behind-the-scenes enhancements to BOLT and its rendering servers to improve the company’s ability to quickly add new functionality or extend support and management capabilities to mobile operators and handset manufacturers.
Also emerging from beta testing is BOLT LiteTM, the newest member of the BOLT family, introduced in June 2009 along with the third and final version of the BOLT beta. Recognizing that some mobile phones currently in use cannot support robust applications and some network providers limit the size of application downloads, Bitstream created a new light version of the BOLT mobile browser. BOLT lite contains all the essential features of the BOLT mobile browser, retaining BOLT’s feature-rich functionality, best-of-breed download speeds and desktop PC-style page layout. BOLT Lite’s 150KB package has been optimized for entry-level devices by eliminating BOLT’s non-critical features such as landscape and portrait orientation settings, inline videos, transport protocol settings, copy-paste operations, favorites organization, inline editing, find in page feature, and 3XL magnification.

BOLT and BOLT Lite are both available for free download at:
http://boltbrowser.com.

About BOLT:
BOLT is the fastest mobile browser currently available – routinely at least 25 to 50 percent faster than the next fastest – and is the only J2ME browser that supports streaming video from popular media sharing sites like YouTube and MySpace. BOLT is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones and is built on a WebKit architecture that offers the most accurate desktop-style page rendering of any mobile browser. BOLT’s PC-level Web support, patented split-screen viewing mode, intuitive keystroke shortcuts and copy/paste functionality offer a user-friendly, feature-rich mobile browsing experience on even entry-level mobile phones. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream:
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company focused on bringing unique software products to a wide variety of markets. The company’s core software products include award-winning fonts and font rendering software, mobile browsing and variable data publishing and web-to-print software for personalized marketing. For more information about Bitstream please visit www.bitstream.com.

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced that BOLT^TM, the company’s web browser for mobile phones of all types, has served more than 100 million page views for its users all around the world in the six months since its public debut. Launched last February, BOLT continues to enjoy a solid adoption growth rate that exceeds 50 percent per month. Since February, the average usage rate of BOLT has tripled with the company’s servers reporting more than 1.4 million pages rendered daily.

BOLT’s Unique Capabilities Include:

• Fastest browser on the market
• Displays full websites just as they would appear on desktop computers
• Streams videos from popular video services such as YouTube
• Copy and paste text
• Upload video and photo files directly to websites from BOLT

“There is no argument that the Internet is an essential part of peoples’ daily lives,” said Anna Chagnon, Bitstream’s president and CEO. “However a problem with the vast majority of mobile phones is that while they are capable of Internet access, they don’t possess browsers that display websites properly. Most websites are designed solely with PC viewing in mind, and even with billions of Internet-capable phones in use, a great many of the most popular websites still don’t have mobile companion websites. Of those that do, many lack the full functionality or features that people have come to expect when accessing them from their PCs. We believe the fact that BOLT was installed more than one million times in just the first four months since its launch is proof of the market’s desire to bridge this gap between the World Wide Web and mobile platforms.”

Optimized to conserve data transmissions, BOLT features unrivaled speed – consistently at least 25 to 50 percent faster than competitors. BOLT offers ultra-fast viewing of streaming and flash video, high standards compliance, rich media and graphics enabling people to view websites just as they do on a PC.

Recent data also includes usage from the new BOLT lite^TM, a new lightweight version of the BOLT mobile browser. Recognizing that some mobile phones currently in use cannot support robust applications and some network providers limit the size of application downloads, Bitstream created BOLT lite – a smaller application that includes all the essential features of the BOLT mobile browser but excludes some of the advanced features to maintain a small application size that can work on lower-end phones and virtually every mobile network. BOLT lite retains BOLT’s feature-rich functionality, best-of-breed download speeds and desktop PC-style page layout.

BOLT and BOLT lite are now available for free to anyone as part of its public beta test. Visit http://boltbrowser.com.

About BOLT:
The BOLT mobile browser, compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones, offers unrivaled speed and desktop-style web browsing including the ability to stream video. A patented split-screen viewing and intuitive keystroke shortcuts make navigating web pages simple. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream:
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company focused on bringing unique software products to a wide variety of markets. The company’s core software products include award-winning fonts and font rendering software, mobile browsing and variable data publishing and web-to-print software for personalized marketing. For more information about Bitstream please visit www.bitstream.com.

Компания Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) сегодня представила BOLT^TM, браузер для мобильных телефонов всех типов для русского и всех языков, использующих кириллические алфавиты. BOLT – первый браузер, полностью оптимизированный для мобильных телефонов – предоставляет быстрый и аналогичный компьютерному доступ в Интернет практически с любого мобильного телефона, от простого до смартфона.

BOLT впервые был представлен в феврале в Барселоне на конгрессе Mobile World с поддержкой английского и других западноевропейских языков. С тех пор BOLT был установлен более одного миллиона раз и обновлён, что добавило ему много важных новых свойств, а также заработал похвалу средств массовой информации, блоггеров и пользователей во всем мире.

«По всему миру люди обнаруживают мощность и потенциал своих мобильных телефонов», сказала Анна Шаньон – президент и генеральный директор Bitstream. «Население стран СНГ – среди самых грамотных пользователей мобильных телефонов в мире, и во многих из них количество телефонов на душу населения превышает 100 %. Люди, использующие телефон для социальных контактов, электронной почты, покупки товаров и игр в режиме онлайн, теперь смогут бесплатно получить полноценный браузер для своих телефонов. С нашей поддержкой кириллицы, мы ожидаем, что BOLT станет таким же успешным в данном регионе, как и в Северной Америке, Индии и Западной Европе».

BOLT, оптимизированный для бережной передачи данных, обладает непревзойденной скоростью – не менее чем на 25-50% быстрее конкурентов. BOLT предлагает потоковое видео, высокий стандарт совместимости, богатую структуру и графику, позволяющую людям просматривать веб-сайты на своих мобильных телефонах так же, как и на ПК. BOLT – единственный мобильный браузер, позволяющий наслаждаться потоковым видео на обычном мобильном телефоне с таких популярных видео-сервисов, как RuTube, YouTube, vids.myspace.com, video.yahoo.com, blip.tv, dailymotion.com, metacafe.com и т.д.

Созданный при помощи запатентованных технологий компрессии, навигации и воспроизведения BOLT позволяет пользователям быстро и просто находить и читать информацию. Как только пользователи доходят до конкретной части большой веб-страницы, они могут увеличить текст и изображения, так чтобы они выглядели четко даже на маленьком экране мобильного телефона.

Свойства BOLT:

• Быстрое, безопасное отображение веб-сайтов, как на экране ПК, на телефонах высокого и низкого класса
• Возможность демонстрации потокового видео
• Режим разделенного и полного экрана для упрощения навигации и просмотра
• Копирование и вставка текста
• Ввод и редактирование текста непосредственно в режиме онлайн
• Поддержка жирного шрифта, курсива, верхнего индекса и других текстовых стилей
• Загрузка файлов, например, видеоклипов на YouTube
• Добавление и организация закладок избранного, просмотр истории навигации
• Интуитивные ярлыки на клавишах для быстрой навигации и выбора содержимого
• Защита от шпионских программ и злонамеренных или поврежденных дополнений
• Просмотр веб-сайтов при использовании меньшего количества данных, чем браузеры конкурентов
• Переключение между веб-сайтами с выводом изображений или без них

Мы понимаем, что некоторые из используемых ныне телефонов не поддерживают объемные приложения и ограничения провайдеров на размер скачиваемых приложений, поэтому BOLT доступен в легкой версии BOLT lite^TM. BOLT lite содержит все основные свойства мобильного браузера BOLT и сохраняет богатую функциональность BOLT, оптимальную скорость скачивания и расположение страниц как на компьютере. 140-килобайтный пакет BOLT lite оптимизирован для устройств начального уровня посредством удаления не являющихся необходимыми свойств, таких как вертикальное и горизонтальное отображение, встроенное видео, установки транспортных протоколов, копирование и вставка текста, организация избранного, встроенное редактирование, поиск по странице и увеличение в 3 раза. Как BOLT, так и BOLT lite поддерживают дополнительные языки в данной версии.

Благодаря поддержке кириллицы BOLT верно отображает веб-страницы, написанные на кириллице. С таким огромным опытом в разработке программ и шрифтовых технологиях, Bitstream смогла создать мобильный браузер BOLT для масштабирования текста и изображений в шести размерах: маленький, средний, большой, xl, xxl и 3xl. Ни один другой браузер для мобильных телефонов или смартфонов BlackBerry не может отображать или масштабировать кириллический текст с такой амплитудой и четкостью, как BOLT.

«Bitstream ожидает, что BOLT станет очень популярен в Восточной Европе», добавила Шаньон. «Мы специально разработали BOLT, чтобы облегчить людям использование мобильных телефонов для работы в сети, поиска, общения и просмотра видео. Наши пользователи признали наш дизайн, сделав Google, Orkut, Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail и YouTube самыми просматриваемыми при помощи BOLT сайтами».

Использование BOLT:

Мобильный браузер BOLT был установлен более миллиона раз людьми по всему миру. BOLT установлен на более чем 1 000 моделей мобильных телефонов более чем 50 производителей.

Люди проводят много времени, используя BOLT. Более 20% всех подключений BOLT длятся более 30 минут; более 10% всех подключений длятся более 1 часа. Причина того, что подключения BOLT длятся так долго в том, что пользователи проводят много времени в социальных сетях. 40% веб-сайтов, которые посещают при помощи BOLT – социальные сети. В зависимости от географического местоположения, Facebook или Orkut были самыми посещаемыми веб-сайтами среди пользователей BOLT.

Главные направления пользователей BOLT:

• Социальные сети (например, ВКонтакте, Facebook)
• Поиск (например, Яндекс, Google)
• Видео веб-сайты (например, RuTube, YouTube)
• Микроблоги (например, Friendster, Twitter)
• Новости (например, Лента.Ру, CNN)
• Развлечения (например, Травиан, One Manga)
• Спорт (например, СПОРТ-ЭКСПРЕСС, ESPN)
• Электронная почта (например, Mail.Ru, Gmail)
• Программы для мобильных телефонов (например, Zedge, Peperonity)
• Покупка товаров (например, Amazon.com, eBay)

BOLT и BOLT lite доступны всем бесплатно как часть общего бета-тестирования Bitstream. Посетите http://boltbrowser.com, чтобы скачать BOLT сегодня же.

О BOLT:
Браузер для мобильных телефонов BOLT, совместимый с большинством из 4 миллиардов мобильных телефонов на Земле, предлагает непревзойденную скорость и стиль работы как на компьютере, включая возможность демонстрации потокового видео. Запатентованное полиэкранное отображение и интуитивные ярлыки на клавишах упрощают навигацию веб-сайтов. Загрузите BOLT бесплатно на http://boltbrowser.com – мобильный Интернет еще никогда не выглядел так хорошо на вашем телефоне.

О Bitstream:
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) – компания по разработке программного обеспечения, концентрирующаяся на распространении уникального программного обеспечения на широких рынках. Основное программное обеспечение компании включает в себя удостоенные наград шрифты и поддерживающие их программы, мобильные браузеры и различное программное обеспечение для публикации данных и удаленной публикации для персонифицированного рынка. Для дальнейшей информации о Bitstream, пожалуйста, посетите www.bitstream.com.

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