The BOLT™ Mobile Browser from Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) has been named Runner Up in the 2010 Mobile Merit Awards in two categories: Best Overall Consumer Mobile Application and Best Service Delivery Platform. Recognizing companies, individuals and technologies that have shaped the way in which the world communicates, the 2010 Mobile Merit Awards program notes the excellence achieved in the global mobile industry.

Through nominations judged by an impressive list of mobile industry executives and members of the media, the Mobile Merit Awards are presented to outstanding companies for technologies within the mobile arena that will have the greatest impact on the market. The 2010 Mobile Merit Awards judges honored products, individuals, and technologies based on their industry impact, innovation, social importance, implementation and overall success factor. The Mobile Merit Award submission categories covered all aspects of mobility including: devices, infrastructure, applications, social/digital medium, 4G technologies, mobile marketing, and media.

“These Mobile Merit Awards for BOLT are further recognition of the hard work and commitment of the Bitstream development and engineering team,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream. “2010 has already been a year of many important milestones for BOLT as we are surpassing 35,000 downloads a day on average, totaling over 7.8 million downloads to date. The latest version, BOLT 2.1, which we released late last month, is the most fully-featured release yet, and we look forward to feedback from our active user base as we are constantly making improvements to truly make BOLT the crowd favorite.”

The BOLT mobile browser was named runner up in the Best Overall Consumer Application category, a tribute to the popular cross platform app with millions of users across BlackBerry Smartphones , and all levels of Java-based mobile phones. The industry’s most fully featured mobile browser for phones of all types, BOLT is downloaded by more than 30,000 people around the world each day.

BOLT earned a second runner up award for Best Service Delivery Platform. BOLT’s server middleware provides carriers with the ability to better manage data consumption on their networks by compressing data up to 24:1 and using as little as 4 percent what a standard mobile browser would use, while at the same time delivering a superior Web browsing experience for handset manufacturers and their users.

“B2 Group is pleased to judge and participate in this year’s Mobile Merit Awards showcasing our thought leadership in the mobile industry by selecting companies, like Bitstream, that we feel represent the innovation taking place in the mobile market today,” said judge Bob Bilbruck, Managing Director B2 Group/ Mobiletain. “We congratulate all participants in the Mobile Merit Awards this year and look forward to seeing more great entries next year.”

Other notable 2010 Mobile Merit Award winners include GoTV Networks, Research in Motion, Nokia, Sybase 365, Sprint-Nextel, DeviceAnywhere, and Telepicture/TMZ.

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 Mobile Merit Awards
The Mobile Merit Awards recognizes companies, individuals and technologies that have shaped the way in which the world communicates today. Through nominations the Mobile Merit Awards notes the excellence achieved in the global mobile industry. These bi-annual awards are presented to outstanding companies, individuals and technologies from each sector within the mobile arena for work of the greatest likely impact on the market. For more information please visit: http://www.mobilemeritawards.com

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today its BOLT™ browser has rendered its 1 billionth Web page, surpassing this major usage milestone over the weekend before the company made the second generation of its mobile browser, Bolt 2.1, available to the public. Launched in February 2009, the BOLT mobile browser is the most advanced and fully featured mobile browser available for phones of all types. Bolt has enjoyed consistent growth as people around the world flock to the acclaimed browser’s video streaming, tight integration with social networking, tabbed browsing and a host of other features that deliver PC-style browsing to mobile phones of all types.

“In July of last year Bitstream announced that BOLT climbed past 100 million Web pages rendered,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream. “The first 100 million pages are always the hardest. At our current rate of usage, BOLT servers are rendering 100 million Web pages every two weeks, and that rate is accelerating. BOLT is now drawing new users faster than 1 million every month, another rate that is also accelerating. It’s extremely gratifying that after all our hard work and our dialogue with our users, we’ve built a mobile application that is highly reviewed, award-winning and popular around the world.”

BOLT, now used by more than 7.3 million people in over 200 countries, has also streamed more than 570 million minutes of video – equivalent to more than 1,000 years when played back to back. With its recent addition of HTML5 video support and the broadest range of Flash video support for mobile phones of all types, BOLT users are now streaming the equivalent of 15 years worth of video every single day. So far in 2010, BOLT has transferred 290 Terabytes of data, roughly equivalent to the amount of data that can be stored on 3.7 million CDs.

BOLT is a free download for people using J2ME mobile phones – approximately 75 percent of the world’s estimated 4 billion mobile phones – and BlackBerry smartphones. The most fully featured mobile browser, BOLT includes many features not available in competing mobile browsers:

• Perfect rendering of Web pages on any class of phone, scoring 100 percent on the Web Standard’s project Acid3 test.
• WebKit based cloud-computing architecture, ensuring rendering accuracy, speed and support for the latest Web standards and innovations.
• The broadest streaming video support of any mobile browser for mobile phones of all types.
• Super fast download speeds.
• Copy and pasting text.
• Built-in integration with Twitter and Facebook.
• Password manager.
• Download/Upload manager.
• Ability to run Web-based applications written in Ajax, Javascript and other Web programming languages, ranging from Google docs to Mafia Wars.
• The inclusion of widgets – standalone mobile applications that are run directly from the browser – such as a weather app, calendar app, calculator, Twitter client and others. These widgets let people using any phone take part in the mobile apps revolution.
• Best of breed over-the-air data compression, resulting in faster load times and decreased data usage.
• Ability to update the BOLT client remotely, over-the-air.
• Patented split screen viewing to make surfing complicated Web pages simple, and viewing content on the smallest of screens easy.

Recognizing that some mobile phones currently in use cannot support the full size applications and some network providers limit the size of application downloads, Bitstream also offers a light version of the BOLT mobile browser, BOLT Lite™. 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.

Bitstream has made BOLT extremely easy to use with keypad shortcuts to quickly navigate pages and scale up and down through the browser’s six levels of magnification. Comprehensive instructions on how to use all of BOLT’s many features can be found at http://boltbrowser.com/faq.html.

BOLT 2.1 and BOLT Lite are available for free at http://boltbrowser.com. Consumers who have downloaded previous versions of BOLT will be prompted through the application to upgrade the browser.

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 commercial availability of the second generation of its acclaimed BOLT™ mobile browser. BOLT 2.1 marks the completion of beta testing on the most fully featured browser available for mobile phones of all types. Among BOLT 2.1’s new features are tighter integration with Facebook and support for HTML5 video as well as several new Flash video streaming websites.

“In just a few years it is expected that more people will be using the Internet on mobile devices than from desktop computers,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream. “Bitstream has engineered BOLT to maximize the utility of the Internet on mobile for end users, give handset manufacturers an important competitive differentiator for their mobile phone lines, and provide mobile network operators another way to compete for new users as well as to better manage the data usage on their networks. Bitstream has always believed there should be a singular entity called the Internet, as opposed to a desktop iteration alongside a lighter, less functional mobile version.”

An April 2010 report from the analyst firm Morgan Stanley found that video accounts for 69 percent of all mobile data traffic worldwide. With the inclusion of HTML5 video, the BOLT mobile browser now provides the industry’s broadest video support. HTML5 video is a new standard for delivering streaming video via an Internet browser without requiring an external plug-in. Though a relatively new standard, a study released this month by the video aggregator and search firm MeFeedia found that 26 percent of online video available is today already encoded for HTML5. Through the use of BOLT, users can watch HTML5 videos on any website on which they appear.

BOLT 2.1, Bitstream offers the largest selection of Flash video support available on all categories of mobile phones, adding mtv.com, nick.com, bbc.co.uk (UK), maniatv.com, svtplay.se (Sweden), hungama.com (India) and bollywoodhungama.com (India) to a list that already included youtube.com, cnn.com, espn.com, video.google.com, video.yahoo.com, vids.myspace.com, blip.tv, dailymotion.com, metacafe.com, rutube.ru and www.mocospace.com. BOLT 2.1’s advanced integration with Facebook – by far the most popular domain visited by BOLT users around the world – includes the ability to use Facebook’s instant messaging service and to seamlessly copy text or links and post them to a Facebook account directly from within the BOLT browser. The most important new feature of BOLT 2.1 is tabbed browsing which gives people the ability to simultaneously browse multiple websites and easily switch between them, a functionality that was a top request from BOLT users. Additional notable upgrades in BOLT 2.1 include a faster widget gallery with updated user interface and a server upgrade to WebKit 4.03, keeping BOLT up-to-date with the latest Web standards.

BOLT has been installed nearly 7 million times since its debut in February 2009. Over the past few months, more than 30,000 users installed the consumer version of BOLT each day, while hundreds of thousands of people began using pre-installed versions of BOLT on newly available devices from Bitstream’s OEM partners in Asia and Eastern Europe.

The BOLT mobile browser is engineered to run on mobile phones of all types, from low-end feature phones to high-end smartphones. BOLT has been installed on thousands of different handset models running on hundreds of networks worldwide. BOLT is the only major WebKit-based cloud computing browser and is built to deliver a PC-like browsing experience on mobile phones. Its small package, easy integration and comprehensive feature set make it ideal for handset manufacturers and mobile network operators to offer the best possible Internet experience for users of the widest range of mobile device categories. Co-branding and white labeling opportunities make BOLT especially attractive to OEMs and mobile network operators who will benefit from BOLT’s many advantages, including:

OEMs:

• Can offer more appealing product lines to operators with mobile devices that provide full-featured browsing, multimedia, widgets and advanced social networking support on all levels of mobile devices.
• BOLT’s WebKit based cloud-computing architecture enables efficient use of on-device resources.
• BOLT is presently available in J2ME and Brew versions, with English, Spanish, Romanian and Russian user interfaces. OEMs can request BOLT in other platforms as well.
• A 153k Lite™ version of BOLT is available for extremely resource-constrained devices.

Mobile Network Operators

• The BOLT mobile browser delivers PC-style browsing, multimedia streaming, widget downloads, and social networking that increase ARPU while lowering operator cost.
• BOLT reduces infrastructure costs through best-of-breed over-the-air data compression that is as much as 24:1, a factor more than twice as effective as competing mobile browsers. BOLT’s superior data compression offers the additional benefit of speedy performance on 2G networks and entry-level devices.
• Customizable widgets and featured favorites offer new revenue-generating opportunities.
• BOLT’s WebKit based cloud-computing architecture allows for easy scaling to hundreds of millions of users, and beyond.
• Flexible, cost-effective deployment options with Bitstream managing all server/cloud maintenance.

BOLT is the most fully featured mobile browser, including many features not available in competing mobile browsers. Among these features are:

• Perfect rendering of Web pages on any class of phone, scoring 100 percent on the Web Standard’s project Acid3 test.
• WebKit based cloud-computing architecture, ensuring rendering accuracy, speed and support for the latest Web standards and innovations.
• The broadest streaming video support of any mobile browser.
• Super fast download speeds.
• Copy and pasting text.
• Built-in integration with Twitter and Facebook.
• Password manager.
• Download/Upload manager.
• Ability to run Web-based applications written in Ajax, Javascript and other Web programming languages, ranging from Google docs to Mafia Wars.
• The inclusion of widgets – standalone mobile applications that are run directly from the browser – such as a weather app, calendar app, calculator, Twitter client and others. These widgets let people using any phone take part in the mobile apps revolution.
• Best of breed over-the-air data compression, resulting in faster load times and decreased data usage.
• Ability to update the BOLT client remotely, over-the-air.
• Patented split screen viewing to make surfing complicated Web pages simple, and viewing content on the smallest of screens easy.

Changes in how data plans are offered mean more people than ever are buying mobile data on usage-based plans. BOLT’s cloud computing architecture compresses Web and multimedia content by as much as a factor of 24:1 before sending it to the mobile phone. This use of compression means that end users can load websites significantly faster and consume as little as 4 percent of the data as they would on other mobile browsers. As usage-based data plans proliferate together with mobile Internet use, phones that reduce data usage while delivering a superior Web experience will become in higher demand by consumers worldwide. Utilizing such compression makes BOLT of interest to mobile operators who seek to better manage the use of data on their networks.

Bitstream has made BOLT extremely easy to use with keypad shortcuts to quickly navigate pages and scale up and down through the browser’s six levels of magnification. Comprehensive instructions on how to use all of BOLT’s many features can be found at http://boltbrowser.com/faq.html. BOLT 2.1 and BOLT Lite is available for free at http://boltbrowser.com. Consumers who have downloaded previous versions of BOLT will be prompted through the application to upgrade the browser.

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.

The BOLT™ Mobile Browser from Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) has won the Mobile Applications – Entertainment / Social Networking category at the fifth annual CTIA Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards. The E-Tech Awards ceremony took place on March 24 during International CTIA WIRELESS 2010^® in Las Vegas. The awards program recognized products in 15 categories in the areas of consumer electronics, luxury mobile, applications, enterprise, green solutions and network technology.

“CTIA WIRELESS marked three key milestones for the BOLT Mobile Browser,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream.  “Our adoption rate recently surpassed 25,000 new users per day, adding more than 1 million users in the month leading up to CTIA.  During CTIA Bitstream announced the beta of BOLT 2.0, our newest browser that adds tabbed browsing to what is already the most fully-featured mobile browser in the market.  But to have been selected as the best entertainment and social networking mobile application in the most prestigious industry award in North America by such an august panel of judges is true recognition for the hard work, innovation and imagination of Bitstream’s developers and engineers.”

CTIA E-Tech Awards winners were announced at a ceremony hosted by Robert Mesirow, vice president and show director for CTIA and Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies. More than 80 prominent media and industry analysts judged the entries based on innovation, functionality, technological importance, implementation and the overall “wow” factor.

“This year’s E-Tech Awards showcased the latest must-have products available for both consumers and the enterprise – from innovative applications, to green technology and luxury products,” said Heather Lee Landers, assistant vice president of marketing for CTIA. “We congratulate Bitstream on receiving a CTIA E-Tech Award.”

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 CTIA Shows
Celebrating 25 years as the premier global mobile marketplace, International CTIA WIRELESS 2010^® brings together all industries advanced by wireless technology for three days of intense business, learning and networking in Las Vegas, March 23-25. International CTIA WIRELESS IT&E 2010 takes place in San Francisco, October 6-8. Visit www.ctiashow.com.

CTIA-The Wireless Association^® is an international organization representing the wireless communications industry. Membership in the association includes wireless carriers and their suppliers, as well as providers and manufacturers of wireless data services and products. CTIA advocates on behalf of its members at all levels of government. The association also coordinates the industry’s voluntary best practices and initiatives, and produces the industry’s leading tradeshows. CTIA was founded in 1984 and is based in Washington, D.C. Visit www.ctia.org.

Winners in the fifth annual CTIA E-Tech Awards were announced today in 15 categories covering the areas of mobile CE, applications, enterprise, green solutions, luxury mobile and network infrastructure. Winners were announced during International CTIA WIRELESS 2010® which takes March 23-25 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

International CTIA WIRELESS 2010 web visitors named Leapwave’s Big Screen Games played via mobile phones by large audiences “Best Online Pick.” At the show, attendees were able to browse entries showcased in the E-Tech Awards display on the show floor and voted for their favorites via text message, naming the Samsung Moment™, from Samsung Telecommunications America, Best in Show.

“Congratulations to all of the E-Tech Awards winners,” said Heather Lee Landers, assistant vice president of marketing for CTIA. “CTIA’s E-Tech Awards proudly recognizes innovation, vision and technological acumen at the highest level. This year’s awards program saw over 300 entries—a record number—proving that creativity and advancement in wireless is more prevalent than ever.”

E-Tech Awards winners were announced at a ceremony during International CTIA WIRELESS hosted by Robert Mesirow, vice president and show director for CTIA and Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies.

More than 80 prominent media and industry analysts judged the entries based on innovation, functionality, technological importance, implementation and the overall “wow” factor.

2010 CTIA E-Tech Awards Winners include:

Enterprise & Vertical Market Solution – Energy
First: Global Go Green (3G) Energy Efficiency Solution, Top Global USA, Inc.

Enterprise & Vertical Market Solution – Healthcare
First: HealthPAL MA105, MedApps, Inc.
Second: TelCheck Mobility Blood Glucose Meter, Telcare
Third: Philips Respironics System One Sleep Therapy Device, Cinterion Wireless Modules-Philips Respironics

Enterprise & Vertical Market Solution – Mobile Marketing or Advertising
First: LTE enabled HumanKiosk, ng Connect Program
Second: FeedHenry’s Unified Social Web and Mobile Application Platform, FeedHenry
Third: Admeld, Admeld Inc.

Enterprise & Vertical Market Solution – General Business
First: BoxTone 5.0, BoxTone
Second: AirWatch – Mobile Device and WLAN Management Software, AirWatch
Third: Good for Enterprise 6.0, Good Technology

Green Solutions
First: AT&T ZERO Charger, Superior Communications
Second: Nokia Siemens Networks Energy Solutions, Nokia Siemens Networks
Third: P-Flip Foldable Solar Power for iPhone 3GS/iPhone 3G-DCA199, Santom Ltd.

Luxury Mobile
First: Xperia™ Pureness, Sony Ericsson
Second: QUE™ proReader, Plastic Logic
Third: Moshi Moshi 04i, Native Union

Mobile Applications – Healthcare/Public Safety/Transportation/Public Services
First: LookTel (Powered by iVisit), iVisit, LLC
Second: Aha Radio, Aha Mobile, Inc.
Third: Viper SmartStart, Directed Electronics

Mobile Applications – Entertainment/Social Networking
First: BOLT Mobile Browser 1.7, Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS)
Second: iTag.com, iTag.com
Third: fring, fring

Mobile Applications – Mobile Payments
First: USAA Deposit@Mobile, USAA
Second: mophie marketplace, mophie
Third: CHARGE Anywhere for Android™, CHARGE Anywhere

Mobile Applications – Pro-sumer/Business Productivity
First: WorldCard Mobile (Business Card Reader & Business Card Scanner), Pen Power Inc
Second: INRIX Traffic! Pro, INRIX
Third: Eye-Fi Pro X2, Eye-Fi

Mobile CE – Accessory
First: Eye-Fi Pro X2, Eye-Fi
Second: The Boxee Box by D-Link, D-Link Systems, Inc.
Third: Baby Monitor for iPad/iPhone 3GS/iPod Touch DVA005, Santom Ltd.

Mobile CE – Fashion & Lifestyle Products
First: IDAPT i4, IDAPT by INOITULOS
Second: Nokia Booklet 3G, Nokia
Third: Powermat Powerpak™ Receiver, Powermat

Mobile CE – Phone/Smartphone
First: Samsung I8530, Samsung Telecommunications America
Second: HTC HD2 from T-Mobile, HTC
Third: Saygus VPhone, Saygus, Inc.

Network Infrastructure – In-Building/Local Area Network Solution
First: LTE small cells in-building solution, Alcatel-Lucent
Second: Enterprise Radio Access Network (E-RAN): one indoor wireless platform for mobile operators, SpiderCloud Wireless
Third: Samsung Mobile 3G UbiCell™, Samsung Telecommunications America

Network Infrastructure – Wide Area Network
First: 7750 SR Mobile Gateway, Alcatel-Lucent
Second: Ericsson Capsule Site, Ericsson AB
Third: FlexPort, BridgeWave

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About CTIA Shows
Celebrating 25 years as the premier global mobile marketplace, International CTIA WIRELESS 2010® brings together all industries advanced by wireless technology for three days of intense business, learning and networking in Las Vegas, March 23-25. International CTIA WIRELESS IT&E 2010 takes place in San Francisco, October 6-8. Visit www.ctiashow.com.

CTIA-The Wireless Association® is an international organization representing the wireless communications industry. Membership in the association includes wireless carriers and their suppliers, as well as providers and manufacturers of wireless data services and products. CTIA advocates on behalf of its members at all levels of government. The association also coordinates the industry’s voluntary best practices and initiatives, and produces the industry’s leading tradeshows. CTIA was founded in 1984 and is based in Washington, D.C. Visit www.ctia.org.

Read more: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/ctia-announces-2010-e-tech-awards-winners,1220312.shtml#ixzz0jCn2Cup2

700 million pages viewed, 190 million minutes of video watched, 180 terabytes of data transferred, and over 5 million users since BOLT was first introduced in February 2009, Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced Beta availability of BOLT 2.0, the next generation of the BOLT mobile browser, the most fully featured browser for mobile phones of all types. Among the new features in the BOLT 2.0 Beta version is tighter integration with Facebook – by far the most popular domain visited by BOLT users around the world – including the ability to use Facebook’s instant messaging service and to seamlessly copy text or links and post them to a Facebook account directly from within the BOLT browser. The most important new feature of BOLT 2.0 is the addition of tabbed browsing, letting people simultaneously browse multiple websites and easily switch between them.

“Each new version of BOLT becomes more exciting to announce,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream. “We are closely listening to our end-users through our user forum, our Twitter and Facebook pages, and their comments on blog posts and articles, and they are guiding our development roadmap in important ways. It is this close relationship we are building with our users to which we attribute our stunning growth. BOLT added 1 million new users in the last five weeks alone.”

Like its predecessor, BOLT 2.0 is engineered to run on mobile phones of all types, from low-end feature phones to high-end smartphones. BOLT is the only major WebKit-based cloud computing browser and is built to deliver a PC-like browsing experience on mobile phones. The second generation of BOLT maintains all the features of the first generation BOLT browser, including many that no other mobile browser offers:

• Perfect rendering of Web pages on any class of phone, scoring 100 percent on the Web Standard’s project Acid3 test.
• Streaming video from many of the world’s most popular video sharing websites, including YouTube, MySpace, Blip.TV and MetaCafe, as well as websites that stream videos such as CNN, ESPN and any website with embedded YouTube videos.
• Super fast download speeds.
• Copy and pasting text.
• Built-in integration with Twitter and Facebook.
• Password manager.
• Download/Upload manager.
• Ability to run Web-based applications written in Ajax, Javascript and other Web programming languages, ranging from Google docs to Mafia Wars.
• The inclusion of widgets, standalone mobile applications that are run directly from the browser, such as a weather app, calendar app, calculator, Twitter client and others. These widgets let people using any phone take part in the mobile apps revolution.
• Best of breed over-the-air data compression, resulting in faster load times and decreased data usage.
• Patented split screen viewing to make surfing complicated Web pages simple, and viewing content on the smallest of screens easy.

Additional notable upgrades in BOLT 2.0 include a faster widget gallery with updated user interface and a server upgrade to WebKit 4.03.

Bitstream has made BOLT extremely easy to use, with keyboard shortcuts to quickly navigate pages and scale up and down through the browser’s six levels of magnification. Comprehensive instructions on how to use all of BOLT’s many features can be found at http://boltbrowser.com/faq.html.

BOLT is free to download and works on any Mobile Java (J2ME) phone (approximately 75 percent of the estimated 4 billion phones in use today). Handset manufacturers and wireless operators looking to preload BOLT on their mobile phones can license a custom version of BOLT built for any operating system or platform.

Recognizing that some mobile phones currently in use cannot support the full size applications 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.

The BOLT 2.0 Beta can be downloaded for free at http://boltbrowser.com/beta/download.html. People can still download BOLT 1.7 and BOLT Lite for free 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.

The BOLT Mobile Browser from Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) has been named a finalist in the Mobile Applications – Entertainment / Social Networking category in the CTIA Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards. CTIA’s fifth annual E-Tech Awards program recognizes products in 15 categories in the areas of mobile consumer electronics, luxury mobile, applications, enterprise, green solutions and network technology. International CTIA WIRELESS 2010® will take place March 23-25 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

More than 80 prominent media and industry analysts judged the 300-plus entries submitted for the E-Tech Awards program this year. Products and services were judged on innovation, functionality, technological importance, implementation and the overall “wow” factor.

E-Tech Awards winners will be announced at a ceremony hosted by Robert Mesirow, vice president and show director for CTIA and Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, on Wednesday, March 24 at 2:00 p.m. on the Exhibits Innovation Stage located in the Emerging Technology Zone on the International CTIA WIRELESS exhibit floor, North Hall.

CTIA is offering companies two additional opportunities to win an award. Web visitors may vote for the Best Online Pick at www.ctiashow.com/awards. International CTIA WIRELESS show attendees will also have the chance to vote via text message onsite for products in the E-Tech Awards display to win Best in Show.

Attendees to CTIA can visit Bitstream in booth 122

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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 CTIA Shows
Celebrating 25 years as the premier global mobile marketplace, International CTIA WIRELESS 2010® brings together all industries advanced by wireless technology for three days of intense business, learning and networking in Las Vegas, March 23-25. International CTIA WIRELESS IT & ENTERTAINMENT 2010 takes place in San Francisco, October 6-8. Visit www.ctiashow.com.

CTIA-The Wireless Association® is an international organization representing the wireless communications industry. Membership in the association includes wireless carriers and their suppliers, as well as providers and manufacturers of wireless data services and products. CTIA advocates on behalf of its members at all levels of government. The association also coordinates the industry’s voluntary best practices and initiatives, and produces the industry’s leading tradeshows. CTIA was founded in 1984 and is based in Washington, D.C. Visit www.ctia.org.

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 WIRELESS in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 23 to 25 in booth 122. 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 CTIA and is providing the following resources for media:

• A stand at ShowStoppers – held Monday, March 22 from 5:00 to 8:00 P.M. at the Renaissance Hotel, 3400 Paradise Road, Las Vegas. Press registration information for ShowStoppers is available at http://www.wirelessit.com/media/press_events.cfm.
• Online press kit available at http://bitstream.mobilitypr.com.
• Media availability of President and CEO Anna Magliocco-Chagnon and Vice President of Research and Development Sampo Kaasila.

The BOLT Mobile Browser has been named a finalist in Mobile Applications – Entertainment/Social Networking in the CTIA Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards. CTIA’s fifth annual E-Tech Awards program recognizes products in 15 categories in the areas of mobile consumer electronics, luxury mobile, applications, enterprise, green solutions and network technology.

E-Tech Awards winners will be announced at a ceremony hosted by Robert Mesirow, vice president and show director for CTIA and Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, on Wednesday, March 24 at 2:00 p.m. on the Exhibits Innovation Stage located in the Emerging Technology Zone on the International CTIA WIRELESS exhibit floor, North Hall.

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

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

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.

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.