Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today it has selected location-aware mobile search expert, xAD (www.xad.com), as its local search partner for the award winning BOLT mobile browser. Through this partnership, locally relevant user searches from within BOLT will now be provided with xAD results, specific to the user’s location search terms.

“Local searches account for a huge portion of the searches from mobile handsets,” says Bitstream director of product management, Ritu Varma. “By leveraging the local search results provided by xAD, the BOLT browser becomes an even more useful tool for our users.”

BOLT users don’t have to do a thing to start benefiting from the enhanced local search results provided through xAD. A BOLT user simply types a search term into the existing BOLT search bar, and if the search term contains something locally relevant, for example “San Diego restaurant,” then BOLT will automatically serve the user the enhanced local xAD search results.

Bitstream has rolled out local search powered by xAD to its users in the U.S. initially, with plans to expand the localized search capabilities out to Germany, U.K. and France in the near term.

xAD delivers locally relevant search results  all over the country, and with a network of over one million advertisers has become the second largest source of mobile local search traffic in the U.S. Thanks to xAD’s LocalAdXchange, the company’s network returns highly relevant local targeted results 80 percent of the time – more than double any other provider.  xAD local search results deliver additional value by providing more than just a sponsored listing; xAD local results include reviews, offers, maps, directions, and more.

The award winning BOLT browser has been installed more than 20 million times in over 200 countries around the world, and leads the industry as the most advanced and fully featured mobile browser available for phones of all types.  BOLT is a free download for people using mobile phones that run Java ME (also known as J2ME) applications – approximately 75 percent of the world’s estimated 4 billion mobile phones – as well as BlackBerry smartphones.

BOLT is available to download 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.

About xAD, Inc.

xAD connects local businesses to mobile consumers. xAD is the largest local mobile search and advertising network in the United States. The company’s patented mobile optimization technology identifies who, what, and where an end user is, and serves the most relevant click, call and check in based advertising. The xAD team has years of experience in developing mobile search algorithms, and has successfully applied this knowledge to unlock the potential of the local mobile market. xAD publishers and advertisers benefit from the scale and reach of the LocalAdXchangeTM platform that manages billions of search and ad requests with the largest combined network of more than one million local and national performance-based advertisers. For more information on xAD, visit www.xAD.com.

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ZuluTime, LLC (www.zulutimecorp.com) announced today issuance of US Patent #7,876,266, “Harmonic Block Technique for Computing Space-Time Solutions for Communication Networks,” covering a new architecture that enables wireless networks to become “location aware” through normal communications traffic on those networks. Simply by their involvement in a ZuluTime software-enabled wireless network, smartphones and other networked devices can be immediately located and positioned with greater accuracy, particularly in distortion-rich environments.

Unlike other location-based services that require a device to interpret network information to determine a position, the ZuluTime network architecture and technology are the first to put location intelligence on the network. A ZuluTime network can immediately learn the location of any device as soon as that device connects to it, with accuracy in a few meters versus tens of meters with existing solutions. The ZuluTime technology is particularly well-suited for indoor applications, and is capable of precision positioning on wireless networks of any variety, including Wi-Fi, cellular, Bluetooth, enhanced GPS, wireless sensor networks, ZigBee and even Near Field Communications (NFC). This unique technology agnostic approach addresses concerns of IT and mobile media departments with respect to future scalability and migration to newly adopted wireless protocols.

The patent claims address the rudimentary data gathering and data sharing components necessary to weave location capabilities directly into the fabric of wireless network operations. Accuracy and latency is greatly improved for indoor applications, from the tens of meters and tens of seconds in most current methodologies down to aisle-level and a few seconds with ZuluTime. This means that smartphones and similar devices can be now located accurately and generate navigation services for the user in interior spaces where GPS signals cannot penetrate or yield low accuracy.

“This initial patent teaches how basic engineering practices can harvest and share information from the normal packet traffic of wireless networks, eliminating the need for network synchronization, monitoring or classic ‘master references,’” said Geoffrey Rhoads, ZuluTime’s co-founder and holder of more than 300 U.S. patents. “Imagine the services and analytics that can be created for such applications as retail. A big box retailer can know the shopping patterns of every customer that walks into its store with a switched on phone without violating any privacy. Shoppers can opt in for a wide variety of experience-enhancing services such as location-relevant coupons, navigation maps leading to items on specific shelves and summoning a customer service rep to the exact location where the shopper is standing.”

The announcement of the patent comes as retail and social location-based services are gaining significant growth and consumer adoption. The ZuluTime solution locates a shopper’s smartphone persistently at aisle level during the shopper’s trip throughout an entire store. Retailers and brands can then generate personalized, relevant offers based on the shopper’s location, loyalty program profile and real-time shopping behavior in the store. Through extracting the X,Y and Z coordinates of a shopper with time codes, retailers can observe individual shopping paths, dwell times and changes in shopper behavior based on offers, displays or changes in store layout.

About ZuluTime
ZuluTime is innovating and evolving position, navigation and timing (PNT) technologies for wireless networks. The company’s patented architecture enables wireless networks to become “location aware” through normal communications traffic that occurs on those networks. Simply by their involvement in a wireless network, smartphones and other networked devices are located and positioned in interior spaces with far greater accuracy, even in distortion-rich environments where GPS signals cannot penetrate. ZuluTime technology greatly expands opportunities for location-based services in retail, social networks and industrial applications without embedded technology or special rule sets or synchronization. ZuluTime is privately held and was formed in 2006 to develop new inventions in position, navigation and timing (PNT) technologies for wireless networks. For more information visit www.zulutimecorp.com.

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ActiveTrak Inc. (www.activetrak.com), producer of the GadgetTrak® loss and theft recovery software for mobile devices, today announced the availability of GadgetTrak for iOS version 2.5, the most advanced device and data protection service available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

The award-winning GadgetTrak tracking technology now features push notifications, camera support for iPhone 4 and current gen iPod touch users, and email notification in addition to its already impressive list of features. GadgetTrak for iOS is tamper-proof, preventing thieves from modifying the application settings or avoiding being tracked.

“Apple aficionados depend on their iPhones, iPads and iPods more than they do their wallets, and require a technology to protect these devices against loss and iJacking,” said Ian Schray, director of product marketing at ActiveTrak. “This latest edition of GadgetTrak is the most comprehensive iOS protection available, and includes many features driven by the feedback we received from our users, particularly our web-camera support.”

Key features of GadgetTrak for iOS version 2.5 include:

• Push notifications: Send a message to your phone alerting the person who has it that you’re tracking them.
• Camera support: Trigger a photo from device camera, which will be discreetly sent to you via email. This feature is supported for iPhone 4 and current-gen iPod touch users and is available for in-app purchase for 99 cents for unlimited uses.
• Email tracking support: Receive emails to your preferred account with all tracking information and the photo. This feature is also available as part of the Camera support in-app purchase.
• Advanced Positioning: Locate your device using a combination of GPS, Wi-Fi positioning and cell tower positioning, even if the device is indoors.
• Tamper proof: Once activated, the software settings cannot be modified on the device and access to the app requires a user-set 4-digit PIN. Even if access is granted, tracking cannot be deactivated without logging into the owner’s account at www.trak.me.

Once downloaded, the GadgetTrak app works on as many devices as you have registered with your iTunes account. GadgetTrak for iOS keeps running in the background and checking the device’s location every ten minutes. Even if the app is quit manually, GadgetTrak will still register that a major location change has occurred, all without draining the battery.

“No other solution as widely protects your Apple devices as GadgetTrak,” adds Schray. “In addition to storing historical tracking data about your device, GadgetTrak also provides an unparalleled level of encryption and security, giving iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users peace of mind about protecting their data. People can save themselves from the headache and disruption that comes with losing one of these devices by making sure GadgetTrak is installed and running on their devices.”

Regularly priced at $3.99, for a limited time the app will be available in the iTunes app store for 99 cents. GadgetTrak is the only cross-platform mobile protection software available, allowing iPhone, iPad and iPod touch addicts to use a single account to manage Mac and Windows laptops, as well as other mobile devices they may have, including Android or BlackBerry smartphones, media tablets and other MP3 players.

ActiveTrak will be demonstrating GadgetTrak for Mac and iOS at the Macworld 2011 in San Francisco from January 27 to 29 in booth 616 in the Dr. Bott section.

For more information about GadgetTrak for iOS version 2.5 and other GadgetTrak offerings visit http://www.gadgettrak.com/products/iphone.

About ActiveTrak
ActiveTrak Inc. is a leading provider of innovative and patented tracking and data protection solutions for laptops, smartphones, and portable media devices. The company’s consumer product, GadgetTrak, delivers the most advanced theft recovery software available for consumers and businesses today. ActiveTrak not only provides the technology to recover and protect data on devices, but also recovery assistance. The company is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. For more information visit www.ActiveTrak.com.

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ActiveTrak Inc. (www.activetrak.com), producer of loss and theft recovery software for mobile devices, today announced the availability of GadgetTrak® Mobile Security 3, the most advanced device and data protection service available for smartphones and media tablets.

A significant update to its mobile security offerings, GadgetTrak Mobile Security 3 leverages ActiveTrak’s award-winning tracking technology. GadgetTrak Mobile Security 3 adds important new security features, including remote backup and data wipe, to its acclaimed tracking technology for lost or stolen smartphones and tablets. GadgetTrak Mobile Security 3 is tamper proof, preventing thieves from modifying the application settings or avoiding being tracked by simply removing the SIM card.

“GadgetTrak Mobile Security 3 is a major advance in smartphone protection,” said Ken Westin, ActiveTrak CEO. “As smartphones become more powerful and more capable, people trust the device with more of their day-to-day business and personal activities, such as mobile banking and mobile commerce in addition to their email, calendar and contacts. Losing a smartphone can cause a devastating disruption to a person’s life and risk identity theft and other problems. The ability to track a smartphone and secure its data is now even more critical than protecting your wallet.”

GadgetTrak Mobile Security 3, now in a public beta, is available for download at http://www.gadgettrak.com/products/mobile. During the public beta, anyone can try GadgetTrak Mobile Security 3 for free for one month.

Key features of GadgetTrak Mobile Security 3 include:

• Optimized for smartphones and tablets: GadgetTrak Mobile Security 3 is designed to leverage the native capabilities present on smartphones and media tablets to offer the best possible protection for the widest range of mobile devices
• Remotely wipe the device: Remotely wipe personal data stored on your device such as photos, email, contacts and SMS messages
• Secure data backup: Encrypt photos and contacts using government grade encryption (AES 256) and back them up in a secure location
• Advanced Positioning: Locate your device using a combination of GPS, Wi-Fi positioning and cell tower positioning, even if the device is indoors
• Tamper proof: Once activated, the software settings cannot be modified on the device and notifies the device owner if the SIM card changes
• Alarm: Trigger the device to emit a loud siren that can be a theft deterrent or help find a missing phone even if it is set to silent mode

“The world is anticipating the explosion of new media tablets and slates that will be unveiled at CES,” adds Westin. “2011 is going to be the year when tablet devices become the technology accessory everyone will want, including thieves. The oncoming popularity of tablets is why ActiveTrak engineered GadgetTrak Mobile Security 3 to protect tablets as effectively as we protect smartphones and laptops.”

GadgetTrak is the only cross-platform mobile protection software available, allowing users to use a single account to manage Mac and Windows laptops, Apple, Android, and BlackBerry smartphones, plus a wide array of mobile devices such as iPods, iPads and other media tablets. Last month the company made its second generation GadgetTrak for iOS software available in the iTunes app store. For a limited time anyone can download a perpetual license for use on their iPhone or iPad tablet for only 99 cents. This newest version of GadgetTrak for iOS keeps running in the background and checking the device’s location every ten minutes. Even if the app is quit manually, GadgetTrak will still register that a major location change has occurred.

ActiveTrak will be demonstrating GadgetTrak for laptops, smartphones and tablets at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas from January 6 to 9. Media can visit GadgetTrak at Showstoppers on January 6, or on the CES show floor in the New Product Marketplace in booth 1035N and also in booth 4435.

For more information about GadgetTrak Mobile Security 3 and GadgetTrak for iOS visit http://www.gadgettrak.com/products/mobile.

About ActiveTrak
ActiveTrak Inc. is a leading provider of innovative and patented tracking and data protection solutions for laptops, smartphones, and portable media devices. The company’s consumer product, GadgetTrak, delivers the most advanced theft recovery software available for consumers and businesses today. ActiveTrak not only provides the technology to recover and protect data on devices, but also recovery assistance. The company is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. For more information visit www.ActiveTrak.com.

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ActiveTrak™ Inc., has announced that its award-winning GadgetTrak Laptop 3 is now being bundled with warranty plans, including AppleCare at select Apple retailers. This arrangement increases the level of protection by not only covering physical problems with the laptop, but also helping recover it if it’s lost or stolen.

“iCare is a product we launched last November to package all the services that people were asking for into one package at one great price,” said Erick Laabs, Vice President of Retail for The Mac Store. “This November we added GadgetTrak to that bundle as well. This is a service our Customers keep asking for, and with its inclusion into our iCare bundle people have been more excited than ever to get it.”

GadgetTrak is also included with an extended warranty service sold internationally by Computer Warranty Services and as a bundle with Apple’s AppleCare when purchased from MacForce, a Portland-based Apple retailer.

“Warranties are a natural bundle option with GadgetTrak,” said Ken Westin, ActiveTrak founder and CEO. “We’re excited to work with our new partners on bringing a total solution for laptop reliability and recovery.”

Key features of GadgetTrak 3 include:

• Advanced Positioning – By using onboard Wi-Fi radios found in virtually all computers together with advanced Wi-Fi positioning technology, GadgetTrak pinpoints stolen laptops within 10 meters.
• Location Notification – When tracking occurs, a subscriber will get an email with detailed information about a device’s location. This information can also be found on a web control panel at www.trak.me.
• Webcam Support – Using a laptop webcam, GadgetTrak can remotely snap a photo of a thief, providing crucial evidence that police can use to get a laptop back.

About ActiveTrak Inc.
ActiveTrak Inc. is a leading provider of innovative and patented tracking and data protection solutions for laptops, smartphones, and portable media devices. The company’s consumer product, GadgetTrak®, delivers the most advanced theft recovery software available for consumers and businesses today. ActiveTrak not only provides the technology to recover and protect data on devices, but also recovery assistance. The company is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. For more information visit www.ActiveTrak.com.

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Teams of local Fire Fighters will fan out across Seattle, beginning on July 15th, boots in hand, as they kick off their annual Fill-the-Boot fundraising campaign for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). This year, they are tapping the power of new technology to raise awareness and raise much-needed funds, leveraging the location-aware mobile microlistings platform “Anttenna (www.anttenna.com),” in spreading the word about the locations of donation collection teams.

Last year, the International Association of Fire Fighters raised over $28 million for MDA, making the grand-total for the 55-year tradition close to $195,000,000! Fire Fighters have been volunteering their time and, don’t forget, boots—to help children and adults with muscle-deteriorating diseases since 1954.

Fire Department’s in Washington State began “filling their boots” in May, while the Seattle Fire Department’s Fill-the-Boot will kick-off a two day event on July 15th & 16th. This is Seattle’s 13th year working with MDA on the Fill-the-Boot campaign. Fire Fighters will be at various street corners each day, asking motorists to drop donations into their boots. Unique to this year’s campaign is the addition of Anttenna, a community-driven mobile application that combines the real-time communications power of Twitter with the location awareness native within mobile phones. Available as a free download on the iPhone and iPad, Anttenna will serve as a key tool for increasing awareness of the Fill-the-Boot campaign and notifying individuals across the Seattle area of nearby donation collection locations. The public may access Anttenna to see all Fill-the-Boot locations while on-the-go (be sure to filter by the “Donate” category when using the app). Liz Truong Jasmer, Executive Director of MDA, mentioned, “I’m thrilled about this new opportunity that Annttenna has created for us. Fill-the-Boot is a 56 year old tradition that has stood the test of time but with the changing times in fundraising, this type of technology can have a dramatically large impact in the way we are able to raise dollars in the future.” CEO of Seattle-based Anttenna, Marcus Wandell, had this to say about his company’s involvement, “While the commercial applications of Anttenna are powerful, I am most excited about our ability to tap the power of the platform to raise awareness for – and advance the cause of – worthy community initiatives such as MDA’s Fill-the-Boot campaign.”

Proceeds raised during the street side campaign will help support MDA services and research programs, including transportation services, support groups, and local clinics.

MDA is a volunteer health agency working to defeat more than 40 forms of Muscular Dystrophy and related diseases through programs of worldwide research, comprehensive services and far-reaching professional and public health education. MDA maintains clinics for area adults and children affected by neuromuscular diseases at Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and the University of Washington Medical Center.

For more information about Fill-the-Boot or other MDA programs, please contact Liz Truong Jasmer at (206) 283-2183 or ejasmer@mdausa.org.

For more information about Anttenna, the category-defining company in mobile microlistings, visit www.anttenna.com.

Just as Twitter evolved blogging into micro-blogging, Anttenna (www.anttenna.com) is today launching a free smartphone application that reinvents classified advertising as “microlistings.” Launching as an iPhone application, Anttenna delivers a real-time, location-aware and mobile consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer microlistings marketplace for the buying, selling, and bartering of goods and services. Today, Anttenna announced the application is now available in most major metropolitan areas across the United States and Canada, building on the success of pilots in San Diego, Seattle, and Austin.

“Anttenna is like a swap meet in your pocket,” said Marcus Wandell, Anttenna’s co-founder and chief executive officer. “This year, more people will access the Internet on their phones than they will on computers, and smartphones are changing the very fabric of the Internet with portability, geo-positioning, and mobile applications. With the exception of posting ads online and making them searchable, classified ads haven’t really evolved all that much since they were introduced 300 years ago, certainly not to the point of harnessing this technology revolution that will see billions of smartphones in use around the world in just a couple of years. Anttenna fully leverages the smartphone platforms and new communications standards to give people a whole new way to use classified advertising. Anttenna delivers a constant stream of hyper-local, real-time listings, always relevant given the moment and location in which they are seen.”

Anttenna’s free mobile application facilitates real-time, location-based, person-to-person exchanges. By turning traditional classified listings into geo-tagged, Twitter-sized microlistings, Anttenna connects people in real-time to others nearby through their handhelds. In less than a minute, potential buyers can search through the Anttenna marketplace to find items or services they’re looking for, all in proximity to where they are at that moment. Microlistings could include finding a concert ticket on location at a music festival, helping a lost pet reunite with her owner, or finding a free sofa right down the block that is in need of a good home.

As Anttenna’s co-founder wandered through a music festival in New York City, he wished the various participating vendors could send him information about what they were selling, their locations, and any offers they might have to his GPS-enabled smartphone. Realizing that this same sort of problem was repeating itself in ways both large and small, block after block, and community after community, the vision for Anttenna was born.

Taking advantage of the reach, openness and familiarity of the Twitter platform, and the exploding popularity of smartphones, Anttenna enables instantaneous, location-aware person-to-person communication and exchange that is efficient and consistent with the “tweet” communication format.

“The feedback from people during the Anttenna pilot was overwhelming,” said Hunter Jensen, Anttenna’s co-founder and chief technology officer. “These early Anttenna users loved the ease of use and functionality that comes from seamless integration with the Twitter ecosystem. Leveraging Twitter’s platform, we give people the ability to instantly communicate with each other by ‘Anttweeting,’ with the huge privacy benefit of not having to share personal information such as phone numbers or email addresses.”

The concept of community is central to the company’s vision. As a location-based service, Anttenna becomes part of the fabric of the communities it serves. Recognizing and respecting the role it can play in communities, Anttenna provides tools and services specifically geared towards non-profits and other volunteer-based civic organizations. To further enhance this interaction with the community, the Anttenna service features categories such as “Volunteer,” “Carpool,” and “Borrow/Lend.” During its pilot, the Anttenna platform was used to raise awareness and donations for a San Diego initiative called The Campaign for Abandoned Youth, in partnership with the non-profit group StayClassy.org. With the national rollout, Anttenna has teamed up with the Muscular Dystrophy Association in several cities to spread the word about the locations of donation collection teams staffed by local firefighters supporting MDA’s annual ‘Fill The Boot’ drive.

iPhone users can get the free Anttenna application on iTunes.

About Anttenna
Anttenna is defining mobile microlistings, providing businesses and consumers with a real-time, location-based mobile microlistings marketplace for the exchange of goods and services. The Anttenna platform strengthens the bonds between people and their communities, providing tools that allow non-profit, volunteer-based and other civic organizations to connect, communicate and mobilize in response to local needs. For more information, visit www.anttenna.com.