Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a leading developer of software that meets the challenging and ever-changing needs of mobile operators, device manufacturers, mobile application developers and consumers worldwide. The company will be showcasing its mobile technologies at the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2011 (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, February 14 to 17 in stand 2D23. These mobile technologies include:

• BOLT™ – the only WebKit-based cloud-computing browser built for mobile phones of all types. Offering the highest quality page rendering and best over-the-air data compression ratio of any J2ME browser, BOLT provides the most fully featured browsing experience to all levels of mobile devices. With streaming video, widget support, social networking integration, copy and paste and a host of other advanced features, BOLT offers a feature-rich, desktop-style browsing experience even on entry-level mobile phones. It is compatible with virtually any handset that supports Java ME (commonly referred to as J2ME) including the BlackBerry platform; in other words BOLT works on lots of phones, from low-end handsets through high-end smartphones.
• Bitstream Font Fusion® – a font engine optimized for resource-constrained systems such as mobile handsets. It is the core font technology behind the BOLT mobile browser. A highly versatile font subsystem, Font Fusion renders high quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any platform or device. The subsystem offers the fastest performance and best possible text output currently available.
• Bitstream Panorama™ –a fast, compact line layout engine that provides a single set of high-level APIs to layout, position, substitute, and render text in all of the world’s languages — including complex scripts such as Arabic and Indic. Bitstream Panorama is a comprehensive text composition solution for international developers.
• Global Fonts – Bitstream offers both high-quality off the shelf fonts and custom fonts in all of the world’s languages, as well as the embeddable text rendering technologies for modern OEM products.

Bitstream will have important news at MWC and is providing the following resources for media:

• A stand at ShowStoppers – held Sunday, February 13, 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. (17:00 to 19:30) at the Hotel Rey Juan Carlos I, Av. Diagonal 661 – 671 – 08028 – Barcelona. Contact info for press registration at ShowStoppers is available at http://www.showstoppers.com/?page_id=241
• A booth in the MWC exhibit Hall 2.0, Stand 2D23
• A microsite for news from MWC at https://sites.google.com/site/boltbrowsermwc/
• Online press kit available at http://bitstream.mobilitypr.com
• Virtual Press Office (VPO) press kit in conjunction with MWC
• Media availability of Bitstream executives, including:
  • Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, CEO
  • Sampo Kaasila, VP of Research and Development

To receive news under embargo or arrange meetings with Bitstream executives at MWC, please contact Bitstream media contacts:

• John Sidline (On site at MWC): +1 503 989 5474 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Holly Woolard: +1 503 360 7144 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Melissa Burns: +1 208 850 5939 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• All Bitstream media contacts can be reached by email at bitstream@mobilitypr.com

About BOLT
Licensed by handset manufacturers and wireless operators around the world, the BOLT mobile browser delivers PC-style browsing with advanced features such as tabbed browsing, streaming audio and video, and integrated social networking in a relatively small application that is also the industry’s most feature rich mobile browser. BOLT is available for Java ME, BREW and BlackBerry devices and has already been installed on thousands of different handset models. BOLT’s WebKit based cloud computing infrastructure integrates easily with carriers’ billing and OSS systems, and significantly reduces infrastructure costs with its best-in-class data compression. The BOLT SDK allows any service provider the ability to create custom Web-enabled applications that run on the widest possible number of mobile phones. Wireless operators, handset OEMs and service providers should contact boltsales@bitstream.com to learn more about BOLT.

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.

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Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a leading developer of software that meets the challenging and ever-changing needs of mobile operators, device manufacturers, mobile application developers and consumers worldwide. The company will be showcasing its mobile technologies at the upcoming CTIA Enterprise & Applications in San Francisco, California, October 6 to 8 in booth 129. These mobile technologies include:

• BOLT™ – the only WebKit-based cloud-computing browser built for mobile phones of all types. Offering the highest quality page rendering and best over-the-air data compression ratio of any J2ME browser, BOLT provides the most fully featured browsing experience to all levels of mobile devices. With HTML5 and flash streaming video support, widget support, social networking integration, in-line text editing, tabbed browsing and a host of other advanced features, BOLT offers a feature-rich, desktop-style browsing experience even on entry-level mobile phones. It is compatible with virtually any handset that supports Java ME (commonly referred to as J2ME) including the BlackBerry platform; in other words BOLT works on lots of phones, from low-end handsets through high-end smartphones.
• Bitstream Font Fusion® – a font engine optimized for resource-constrained systems such as mobile handsets. It is the core font technology behind the BOLT mobile browser. A highly versatile font subsystem, Font Fusion renders high quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any platform or device. The subsystem offers the fastest performance and best possible text output currently available.
• Bitstream Panorama™ –a fast, compact line layout engine that provides a single set of high-level APIs to layout, position, substitute, and render text in all of the world’s languages — including complex scripts such as Arabic and Indic. Bitstream Panorama is a comprehensive text composition solution for international developers.
• Global Fonts – Bitstream offers both high-quality off the shelf fonts and custom fonts in all of the world’s languages, as well as the embeddable text rendering technologies for modern OEM products.

Bitstream will have important news at CTIA and is providing the following resources for media:

• Online press kit available at http://bitstream.mobilitypr.com.
• Availability of President and CEO Anna Magliocco-Chagnon and Vice President of Research and Development Sampo Kaasila for media interviews.
• Follow BOLT on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/boltbrowser

To receive news under embargo or arrange meetings with Bitstream executives at CTIA Enterprise & Applications in San Francisco, contact Bitstream media contacts:

• John Sidline: +1 503 989 5474 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Melissa Burns: +1 208 946 4849 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• All Bitstream media contacts can be reached by email at bitstream@mobilitypr.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.

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.

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Anna Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) was named Best Executive in the Stevie Awards for Women in Business. The awards were presented at a dinner ceremony November 13 in New York. Bitstream itself was named a finalist in the Most Innovative Company category.

The 2009 Stevie Awards for Women in Business is an international competition recognizing the accomplishments of outstanding women executives, business owners, and the organizations they run. The awards are produced by the creators of the prestigious American Business Awards℠.

Stevie Awards were handed out in categories including Best Entrepreneur, Best Executive, Lifetime Achievement, and Women Helping Women at the gala event at New York’s Marriott Marquis Hotel on November 13. More than 1,100 entries from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration.

Chagnon was recognized with the Best Executive Stevie Award for successfully positioning Bitstream as a leading company in the mobile and wireless space. Credited with advancing Bitstream’s existing technologies and developing new innovative technologies, Chagnon has led Bitstream’s charge to truly change the face of the mobile market with its BOLT™ mobile browser.

With the introduction of BOLT, Bitstream has proved to be front and center in innovation and has driven the adoption of the mobile Internet. Since its introduction, over 2.6 million BOLT accounts have been created, with as many as 2.5 million pages being served up each day.

The BOLT mobile browser, built to be used on a wide range of mobile phones from simple “feature” phones to more advanced devices such as BlackBerry smartphones, has averaged greater than 50 percent growth in usage each month since the application made its public debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this past February.

“Winning this award is testimony to the hard work and dedication of the team making Bitstream a leader in developing technologies which have enhanced the lives of our users,” said Anna Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream. “I thank my colleagues and family for their support and look forward to another year of positive milestones in advancing the mobile market.”

The Stevie Awards for Women in Business are governed by a Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors that features many leading women entrepreneurs and luminaries in business. Members of the Awards’ Board selected Stevie winners from among the finalists. Finalists were chosen by business professionals worldwide during the preliminary judging period.

Details about the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the list of honorees are available at www.stevieawards.com/women.

About BOLT
BOLT offers best-of-breed page load speeds, and is the only J2ME browser that supports streaming video from popular media sharing sites like YouTube and MySpace. BOLT is WebKit based, runs well on nearly any J2ME phone and is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones. BOLT’s superior desktop-style page rendering, 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.

About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring companies of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.

Sponsors of the 6th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business include the Business TalkRadio Network, Covario, Inc., and KeyBank. Localization partner of the 2009 Stevie Awards is Lionbridge.

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) was named a Finalist in the Most Innovative Company of the year category and company CEO Anna Chagnon was named a Finalist for Best Executive of the Year in a non-services business in the 6th annual Stevie Awards^® for Women in Business. Stevie Award winners will be announced in New York on November 13.

The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs, and the companies they run – worldwide. The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world’s premier business awards.

Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word “crowned,” winners will be announced during a gala event at the Marriott Marquis hotel in New York on Friday, November 13. Nominated women executives and entrepreneurs from the U.S.A and several other countries are expected to attend. The presentations will be broadcast live on radio in the U.S.A. by the Business TalkRadio Network.

More than 1,100 entries were submitted this year for consideration in 54 categories, including Best Executive, Best Entrepreneur, and Best Community Involvement Program.

“It is marvelous to see so many brilliant and experienced women thrive in the business community and be nominated for this year’s Stevie Awards for Women in Business,” said Anna Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream. “To be included among such an exceptional group of women is a compliment and my best wishes go out to all the finalists for the Stevies.”

Chagnon has successfully positioned Bitstream to capitalize on the immense mobile and wireless market by advancing their existing technologies and developing new technologies that are taking the market by storm. With the introduction of their new product called BOLT^TM, Bitstream has proved to be front and center in innovation and adoption of the mobile Internet revolution.

Since its introduction, 2.4 million BOLT accounts have been created, with as many as 2.5 million pages being served up each day. The BOLT mobile browser, built to be used on a wide range of mobile phones from simple “feature” phones to more advanced devices such as BlackBerry smartphones, has averaged greater than 50 percent growth in usage each month since the application made its public debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this past February.

“Being named a Finalist in The Stevie Awards for Women in Business is an important achievement,” said Michael Gallagher, president of the Stevie Awards. “It means that independent business executives have agreed that the nominee is worthy of recognition. We congratulate all of the Finalists on their achievement and wish them well in the competition.”

Details about The Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the list of Finalists in all categories are available at www.stevieawards.com/women.

About BOLT
BOLT offers best-of-breed page load speeds, and is the only J2ME browser that supports streaming video from popular media sharing sites like YouTube and MySpace. BOLT is WebKit based, runs well on nearly any J2ME phone and is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones. BOLT’s superior desktop-style page rendering, 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.

About The Stevie Award
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, The Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.

Sponsors of the 6th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business (as of October 9) include the Business TalkRadio Network, Covario, Inc., and KeyBank. Localization partner of the 2009 Stevie Awards is Lionbridge.

MyFonts^®, the world’s leading online provider of fonts and a division of Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS), announced today more than 1 million registered users now buy fonts at the MyFonts.com website. At MyFonts.com users find, try and buy fonts from one of the largest online selection of fonts online – over 62,000 fonts from more than 500 foundries around the world.

This significant milestone comes after a robust period of innovation for MyFonts. Last spring the company released the WhatTheFont^SM iPhone application. WhatTheFont uses the iPhone’s built-in camera to photograph text used on magazines, posters, billboards, menus or any other place people encounter interesting fonts. Once the text is photographed, it is sent to the WhatTheFont online service which quickly returns a list of possible matching fonts. Since it was first posted to Apple’s App Store, WhatTheFont has been downloaded over 150,000 times, giving a new group of users the power to identify, find, and buy the fonts they need – all from their iPhone.

MyFonts also improved its website, making it even easier for users to navigate and find the fonts they need for their projects.

“The mission of MyFonts has been simple: to make it the best place to find and buy fonts,” said John Collins, vice president and chief technology officer at Bitstream. “People use fonts every day, and today’s computers and software makes switching fonts and adding new fonts simple for users at all levels of experience. There needs to be a place like MyFonts where people can easily find the specific font that makes the right impact in presentations, newsletters, homework, email and a host of other printed and digital documents. The range of fonts, the list of foundries, and the volume of users that come together at MyFonts affirms our position as this leading provider of the world’s fonts.”

About MyFonts
MyFonts is the world’s largest ever collection of fonts, all showcased on one easy-to-use website. The unique resources of MyFonts offer convenient ways to find, purchase, and preview fonts online, including the remarkable font identifier, WhatTheFont. MyFonts is a division of Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS). For more information visit www.myfonts.com and www.bitstream.com.

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, variable data publishing, and Web-to-print software for personalized marketing. For more information about Bitstream please visit www.bitstream.com.

Bitstream is a registered trademark of Bitstream Inc. MyFonts and MyFonts.com are registered service marks and WhatTheFont is a service mark of MyFonts.com, Inc. Other technologies and brand names are used for information only and remain trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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MyFonts, the world’s leading online provider of fonts and a division of Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS), announced today that its WhatTheFont iPhone application has surpassed 100,000 downloads since it was first posted to Apple’s App Store in February this year. WhatTheFont is a web-based service that lets people upload an image of text and instantly identify the font being used. The WhatTheFont iPhone application connects directly to MyFonts’ acclaimed font identification service, which has been helping customers pinpoint mystery fonts for nearly a decade.

The iPhone version of WhatTheFont uses the phone’s built-in camera to photograph the text used on magazines, posters, billboards, menus or any other place people encounter interesting fonts. Users can also choose an existing image from their photo album as the basis for their font search. Once an image is selected, the iPhone’s touch screen can be used to crop and isolate the letters in question. After confirming which characters are used in the image, the application provides a list of possible matching fonts. When WhatTheFont helps you find the font you were looking for you have the choice of viewing more details on the specific font from the MyFonts web page or you can send an e-mail link to yourself with more info.

“For nearly ten years the WhatTheFont service has helped hundreds of thousands of people distinguish unidentified fonts, yet we recognize that people encounter interesting fonts in many more places than just sitting in front of their computer,” said John Collins, vice president and chief technology officer at Bitstream. “Making this service mobile through our iPhone application has quickly expanded the usefulness of WhatTheFont, providing the kind of utility only a mobile device can offer. By mobilizing WhatTheFont we’re making it possible for people to enhance their creativity with instant access to font information from wherever they are.”

The WhatTheFont application can be downloaded to your iPhone for free from the iTunes Store. iPod touch users can also get in on the font discovery action, despite the fact that the iPod touch lacks an onboard camera. When loaded to an iPod touch, WhatTheFont for iPhone will identify fonts in images saved from apps such as Safari and Mail. For more information, visit the official WhatTheFont for iPhone page at http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/iPhone/.

About MyFonts
MyFonts is the world’s largest ever collection of fonts, all showcased on one easy-to-use website. The unique resources of MyFonts offer convenient ways to find, purchase, and preview fonts online, including the remarkable font identifier, WhatTheFont. MyFonts is a division of Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS). For more information visit www.myfonts.com and www.bitstream.com.

Bitstream is a registered trademark of Bitstream Inc. MyFonts and MyFonts.com are registered service marks and WhatTheFont is a service mark of MyFonts.com, Inc. Other technologies and brand names are used for information only and remain trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.