appMobi (www.appmobi.com) today announced the immediate availability of mobiUs, the first-of-its-kind mobile Web App Browser developed specifically to run apps written in HTML5. mobiUs is a revolutionary new mobile browser that for the first time powers Web apps and even websites with the exact same capabilities as native apps from the app stores. mobiUs works either as a standalone mobile browser, or it can power Web apps and websites with full native app functionality from a person’s favorite mobile browser, such as the Safari browser for iPhone. mobiUs for iOS is available in the Apple App Store as a free app (http://www.appmobi.com/getmobiUs).

Until now, Web apps and websites have had limited capabilities, technically incapable of utilizing the great features that made smartphones so popular: gravity sensing, accelerometer, GPS, camera, sound and vibration, file system, and more. mobiUs integrates powerful APIs from PhoneGap and appMobi to give Web apps the same performance, look and feel as native apps. HTML5 Offline Caching lets mobiUs run Web apps even when network connectivity is unavailable. Once a Web app is bookmarked in mobiUs, the app is stored on the smartphone, so it loads instantly and can run with or without Internet connectivity, just like a native app.

mobiUs represents the state of the art in mobile browsing technology, with an optimized user experience that leverages new capabilities enabled by the emerging HTML5 standard, plus enhanced capabilities engineered by appMobi. Because gameplay accounts for a large percentage of the time people spend with their smartphones, appMobi has embedded its DirectCanvas HTML5 game acceleration technology within mobiUs. DirectCanvas supercharges the performance of a game’s physics calculation and screen drawing by an astounding 500 percent, making Web games played via mobiUs as fast and responsive as native app games.

“mobiUs is huge, with the power to disrupt everything you know about mobile apps, where you get them and how developers and publishers benefit from them,” says Sam Abadir, appMobi CTO. “What has been particularly exciting for us is the early interest in mobiUs from some of our game developer customers. Game developers always push technology to the absolute edge of its limitations in order to make entertaining, thrilling and compelling games, and they are finding the combination of mobiUs and appMobi’s GameDev XDK give them performance up to and even beyond the speed and capabilities of Adobe Flash.”

Key features of mobiUs include:

• Mobile-optimized Web app caching for instant access to Web apps even when the device isn’t connected
• DirectCanvas for supercharged game speed and performance
• Web-based Push notifications for user engagement
• Built-in eCommerce capability through appMobi’s 1Touch digital wallet technology
• Mobile-optimized tabbed browsing
• Full screen browsing
• Orientation locking
• In-app access to device hardware functionalities such as the accelerometer, GPS, compass, vibration, microphone, camera and more

If mobile users want to harness the power of mobiUs while continuing to use their favorite browser, they can. To invoke mobiUs, mobile app developers simply add an HTML tag to their Web app hyperlinks which allows their Web apps to run on a user’s device through any mobile browser.

Increasingly, smartphone apps utilize push notifications to send messages to users about something new that requires their attention. mobiUs is the first smartphone browser to enable push notifications for HTML5, giving Web apps the power of push notifications not just in the form of familiar text notifications, but with full multimedia messages powered by HTML5 that can include text, animations, audio and video messages.

mobiUs also includes appMobi’s breakthrough 1Touch digital wallet technology, allowing developers to include a single click payment process within their Web apps. 1Touch users avoid the privacy and security risks associated with storing personal financial information like credit card numbers and addresses in large, at-risk databases in the cloud, susceptible to massive hacks and security breaches. Instead, 1Touch securely stores encrypted credit card information on the device, only decrypted when purchases are made.

The mobiUs browser makes the mobile Web far more immersive by allowing Web developers to access all of the functions that native apps can access, effectively creating the performance of a native app in a mobile website. Viewed in mobiUs, mobile sites are able to make use of device functionalities such as the accelerometer, GPS, compass, vibration, microphone, camera and more.

“With mobiUs on the scene, the ‘walled garden’ is now a public space,” says Abadir. “There are many good reasons why app publishers might still want to use the walled garden app stores, but for the first time, mobiUs gives them a real choice between distributing by app store or the open Web. The appMobi platform and mobiUs allow any HTML5 developer to create and market mobile apps on the open Web that are indistinguishable from native apps in performance and functionality. mobiUs truly empowers Web apps and opens up the entire World Wide Web as the new app store.”

mobiUs includes demonstration Web apps that illustrate its power and functionality. As the leading HTML5 development platform, appMobi has long provided tools and cloud services that allow HTML5 to compete with native smartphone operating systems on a level playing field. Developers who wish to publish with mobiUs can use the mobiUs SDK (http://www.appmobi.com/mobiUsSDK) and appMobi’s free XDK HTML5 development tool. MobiUs for iOS is available today in the Apple App Store as a free app (http://www.appmobi.com/getmobiUs). mobiUs for Android will be available Q1 2012.

About appMobi

appMobi’s development tools and cloud-based services build on HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, creating a unified, open ecosystem that competes favorably with “walled gardens” offered by Apple and Google. appMobi’s technology allows mobile app developers to support HTML5 and native app platforms with just one code base, and to deploy and service their apps on multiple platforms, including the open Web. For more information visit http://www.appmobi.com.

appMobi is a registered trademark of appMobi Inc. iOS and related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Apple Computer Corp. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners including: Adobe, Flash, Android, Google, Chrome.

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Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced that one of Asia’s premier provider of online news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping services, is using the BOLT™ SDK as the core technology for mobilizing its next generation email service, making the service available to mobile phones of all types. Based on the award-winning cloud computing architecture that has made BOLT the mobile browser of choice for more than 20 million people worldwide, the BOLT SDK enables carriers, handset manufacturers and other service providers to build feature rich Java ME applications that can work just as well as on entry-level feature phones as they do on high-end smartphones. The BOLT SDK lets any company with Web-based content, such as media companies, produce mobile Java apps that are ready to run on billions of mobile phones already in the market.

“Although mobile phones are becoming ‘smarter’ and more capable, the vast majority of mobile devices still do not have the processing power and storage needed for feature-rich applications,” said Sampo Kaasila, vice president of research and development at Bitstream. “The magic behind the BOLT browser is its cloud computing architecture that places the processing power and the resulting ability to execute advanced features inside the cloud, allowing even the most basic of mobile phones to deliver superior Web browsing. This same cloud computing architecture can be used to enable a wide variety of other applications, and Bitstream is making it available to other service providers as a software development kit.”

The BOLT mobile browser, widely regarded as the industry’s most feature-rich mobile browser, delivers faster page load times along with a vast array of capabilities normally associated with desktop computer browsers to any type of mobile phone platform. To achieve both its speed and advanced features, Bitstream engineered a cloud-computing architecture that enables all of the BOLT browser’s capabilities. This cloud-computing architecture is available to service providers as the BOLT SDK, which can be used to build robust Web applications delivered through their own custom user interfaces. The BOLT SDK, which supports Web apps written in HTML5, JavaScript and other Web programming languages, supports the same features employed by BOLT such as downloading files, desktop style layout and delivering high performance on resource constrained devices.

Bitstream’s customers leveraged the BOLT SDK to produce a mobile email service designed to reach and be used by more than 500 million Java ME mobile phone users in Asia so people can send and receive email, look up contacts, manage their calendars and perform a host of other personal information management tasks on their phones just as they could from their PCs. By using the BOLT SDK, this next generation email service works across virtually all mobile phone platforms and nearly all mobile phones in the market (close to 200 models from over two dozen manufacturers), including all entry level phones. By using the BOLT SDK as its core application technology, this new email service can support new phone platforms and models as they are introduced.

Announced at the CTIA Wireless conference in March 2011, the BOLT SDK can be used by any service provider looking to create Web-enabled applications with the widest possible mobile phone support. The BOLT SDK is completely customizable and depending on the required application capabilities, can be configured in terms of package size and memory usage. Wireless operators, handset manufacturers and service providers should contact boltsales@bitstream.com to learn more about the BOLT SDK.

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) today announced availability of the BOLT™ SDK, a suite of technology and tools that enables mobile application developers to build feature rich Java (Java ME) applications that work just as well on entry-level feature phones as they do on high-end smartphones. Now any company with Web-based content, such as media companies, can produce mobile apps that are ready to run on billions of mobile phones already in the market.

“Because of our expertise in rendering Web content on mobile devices, Bitstream was approached by developers trying to solve the problem of displaying dynamic Web content within an app without requiring the launch of an external browser, which takes the user outside of the app,” said Sampo Kaasila, vice president of research development at Bitstream. “To Bitstream the solution was simple: use the BOLT architecture from within the app. While there may be ways to embed Web content inside smartphone apps, no such capabilities natively exist for Java feature phones, and the BOLT SDK fills that gap.”

BOLT, widely regarded as the industry’s most feature-rich mobile browser, delivers faster page load times and best in class HTML 5 support enabling access to capabilities typically associated with desktop browsers to any type of mobile phone platform. To achieve both its speed and advanced features, Bitstream engineered a WebKit-based cloud-computing architecture that enables all of the BOLT browser’s capabilities.

This cloud-computing architecture is available to developers, enterprises and service providers as the BOLT SDK, which can be used to build Web content into robust applications delivered through their own custom user interfaces. The BOLT SDK supports Web apps written in HTML5, JavaScript and other Web programming languages, and can deliver the same features employed by BOLT including the downloading files, desktop style layout and delivering high performance on resource constrained devices.

The BOLT SDK together with the data compression inherent in the BOLT cloud computing architecture also gives Java ME apps for feature phones an advantage over smartphone apps in both speed of Web content as well as data consumption.

The BOLT SDK can now be used by application developers looking to seamlessly integrate Web content in their applications with the widest possible mobile phone support. The BOLT SDK is completely customizable and depending on the required application capabilities, can be configured in terms of package size and memory usage.

Bitstream will be demonstrating the BOLT cloud computing mobile browser and the BOLT SDK at CTIA WIRELESS in Orlando, Florida, March 22 to 24 in booth 1922. Wireless operators, handset manufacturers and service providers should contact boltsales@bitstream.com to learn more about the BOLT SDK.

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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Just past 2 years since BOLT™ was first introduced, Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today its renowned mobile browser now has been installed more than 20 million times in over 200 countries around the world. Launched at Mobile World Congress 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 sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and a host of other features that deliver PC-style browsing to mobile phones of all types. BOLT’s users have streamed more than 130 million minutes of video, and viewed nearly 2.3 billion Web pages.

“BOLT is a mobile app that has gained popularity in every corner of the globe,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream. “Now that we’ve passed our 20 million milestone, we are literally counting BOLT users in every geographical region in the millions. It’s fascinating to see how people in markedly different cultures embrace the same types of features and Web destinations no matter where they are accessing the Internet from. Social networking and video streaming are as popular in Africa and Asia as they are in Europe and North America. Facebook continuously tops our list of most popular websites users visit around the world utilizing BOLT’s ability to stream Facebook videos.”

In addition to end user downloads, Bitstream is also seeing its OEM and wireless operator partners begin preloading BOLT onto mobile handsets around the world.

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. 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.

BOLT 2.5 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.

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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 WIRELESS in Orlando, Florida, March 22 to 24 in booth 1922. These mobile technologies include:

• BOLT™ – the only WebKit-based cloud-computing browser built for mobile phones of all types. Licensed by wireless operators and handset manufacturers worldwide, BOLT offers the highest quality page rendering and best over-the-air data compression ratio of any Java ME (also referred to as 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 including the BlackBerry platform; in other words BOLT works on lots of phones, from low-end handsets through high-end smartphones.
• BOLT SDK – Bitstream will be debuting a new toolkit and reference framework for mobile app developers and large media companies to build Java applications with perfect rendering of Web-based content without the need for users to open external browsers.

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

• A stand at Pepcom’s MobileFocus® media event – held Tuesday, March 22 from 7:00 to 10:00 P.M. at the Peabody Hotel, 9801 International Drive, near the Orlando Convention Center. Press registration information for MobileFocus is available at http://www.pepcom.com.
• Online press kit available at http://bitstream.mobilitypr.com.
• Media availability of Vice President of Research and Development Sampo Kaasila, Director of Product Management Ritu Varma, plus senior members of Bitstream’s BOLT Browser team.

The BOLT Mobile Browser was a Mobile Applications winner of the 2010 CTIA Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards.
To receive news under embargo or arrange meetings with Bitstream executives at CTIA WIRELESS, contact Bitstream media contacts:

• John Sidline: +1-503-989-5474 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Holly Woolard (On site at CTIA): +1-503-360-7144 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Melissa Burns (On site at CTIA): +1-208-850-5939 (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.

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appMobi^® (www.appmobi.com) today unveiled mobiUs™ – the first-of-its-kind mobile Web browser technology that allows developers to create Web applications – or WebApps – that exceed the functionality possible with native apps, putting the entire World Wide Web on equal footing with app stores as the distribution channel for discovering, downloading and interacting with mobile apps.

Many developers and publishers are already using standards-based Web programming languages like HTML5, JavaScript and CSS to create feature-rich cross-platform mobile applications. With mobiUs, these apps run within the open-specifications mobiUs Web browser that also utilizes native smartphone and tablet features, without requiring the compiled binary files typical of downloadable native mobile apps. This combination delivers the best of both the mobile Web and native app worlds in a single application. At last, fully-featured WebApps can be distributed through any channel developers and publishers choose – including website downloads – avoiding the often steep fees and content approval processes required by traditional app stores.

The mobiUs WebApp browser technology, together with the appMobi XDK, gives wireless operators, handset manufacturers, browser software companies, major brands and large media providers all the technology, tools and infrastructure required to deliver powerful mobile browsers that run WebApps, build their own app stores, and support large developer ecosystems across multiple devices, platforms and operating systems.

“The mobile app market is gigantic, with several estimates for 2011 indicating that mobile apps will generate more than $15 billion in revenue this year,” said Sam Abadir, chief technology officer of appMobi. “Imagine the business dynamics of just one segment, for example the eBook market. Publishers and bookstores make no money on their eReader apps; they make their money on the sales of eBooks. But with app stores requiring a 30 percent cut of ebook sales revenue, this fee structure ultimately means less choice and higher prices for consumers. The app store may even lock these businesses into delivering content to just a single device or operating system. Using mobiUs, eBook companies can easily create an off-line capable WebApp eReader to deliver their content securely to the devices and platforms of their choosing without a 30 percent fee that might make their business model infeasible and kill an otherwise cherished source of content on mobile devices.”

The mobiUs Advantage

Until mobiUs, WebApps have been unable to utilize device hardware and storage features. The mobiUs WebApp browser technology changes the game. mobiUs is a mobile Web browser reference implementation that harnesses the power of HTML5 and enables Web browsers to cache and run fully-featured Web applications on smartphones and tablets with the same ability to utilize device hardware and storage features previously only possible with native apps. With mobiUs, even mobile websites can gain native app functionality. Leveraging powerful JavaScript APIs from the appMobi XDK, PhoneGap and Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), WebApps run via mobiUs can utilize the complete set of device features including:

• Accelerometer
• Camera
• Contacts
• Device file and storage system
• Encrypted data storage and transfer
• GPS and geo location
• Notification system (sound and vibration)
• Touch, gestures and portrait/landscape orientation

In addition to these capabilities mobiUs WebApp browser technology also enables WebApps with:

• Augmented reality
• OAuth (Open Authorization)
• Over-the-air app update capability
• QR code reader
• SQL database integration
• Streaming media

Altering the mobile app paradigm even further, the mobiUs WebApp browser technology not only runs Web applications with the same functionality as native apps, it also adds important new capabilities that go beyond those available in native apps.

A key new feature appMobi is delivering to the WebApp universe is a frictionless single click (or touch) in-app mobile payment capability. A mobiUs-equipped browser includes an electronic wallet that enables true one-touch in-app purchases that span all major payment services such as credit cards, payment gateways including Authorize.Net and PayPal, and carrier billing. One touch payments have been shown in similar implementations to dramatically increase sales volume.

mobiUs also enables the next generation of push messaging that goes beyond text-only messages which are the norm today. With mobiUs, both WebApps and mobile websites can push targeted rich media messages to devices. These rich-media messages increase user engagement and can include video, audio and any HTML content. mobiUs also enables comprehensive mobile analytics – collected both on-line and off-line – that includes app starts, page views, click-throughs, push message reception and payments activities, among other important measurements.

Websites and WebApps that run within the mobiUs browser tap into powerful development, deployment and distribution cloud services from appMobi. appMobi’s Platform As A Service (PaaS) mobile offerings empower publishers to provide the same experience to which users have become accustomed in the Apple App Store and the Android Market, including frictionless purchasing and easy installation of apps.

mobiUs for End Users

End users will run WebApps via mobiUs the way they do any bookmarked website or other native app. The WebApp is stored in the browser, and an icon for the app is placed on the device home screen. With mobiUs, cached WebApps can run without Internet connectivity, just like native apps. In fact, users can surf the mobile Web on their favorite browsers, and when a native feature enabled by mobiUs is required, the mobiUs WebApp technology is summoned to complete the task, returning the user back to the browser and website he was viewing.

appMobi, recently named one of 10 companies to watch at Mobile World Congress, will showcase the mobiUs WebApp browser technology, including a version of its own WebKit based browser for iOS and Android devices, in booth 2.1D50 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, held February 14-17, 2011. To make an appointment to meet with appMobi executives, contact mwc@appmobi.com.

About appMobi
appMobi® provides integrated tools and services for creating complete mobile application ecosystems and supporting large-scale developer communities. At the core of appMobi’s technology are its revolutionary cloud-based development, deployment and monetization tools that let millions of Web developers of all skill levels quickly build, test and distribute mobile apps with full native functionality for multiple smartphone and tablet devices and operating systems. appMobi’s turnkey, white label platform-as-a-service offering enables device manufacturers, network operators or any business to establish wide-reaching mobile app ecosystems and fully featured app stores under their own brand. For more information visit www.appmobi.com.

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Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) creators of the award winning BOLT™ mobile browser, announced today the release of BOLT 2.5, with new features sure to please the more than 18 million users who have already downloaded the popular app and OEMs who have made BOLT the default browser on their handsets. BOLT 2.5 brings Facebook video support, new sharing capabilities and a host of user interface enhancements to the popular mobile browser, making BOLT’s browsing experience even more enjoyable and easier to navigate on mobile phones of all types. OEMs globally will appreciate BOLT 2.5’s WebKit-based cloud computing infrastructure that integrates easily with carriers’ billing and OSS systems, and significantly reduces infrastructure costs with its best-in-class data compression.

Bitstream is showcasing its mobile browsing technologies, including the BOLT mobile browser and the BOLT SDK, in booth 2D23 at Mobile World Congress 2011 global conference and exposition held this week in Barcelona, February 14 to 17. To arrange a meeting with Bitstream at the show, contact boltsales@bitstream.com.

“Exactly 24 months ago we released BOLT to the public to show the mobile industry that every mobile phone has the potential to be a powerful and utilitarian Internet device,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream. “Today handset manufacturers and wireless operators around the world are preloading BOLT as the default browser on their mobile phones in an effort to deliver the best possible mobile Internet experience to their customers and subscribers. BOLT’s progression over the past 2 years not only validates Bitstream’s objective to engineer a best-in-class cloud computing browser that enables any type of handset, even entry level devices, to deliver a powerful Internet experience that far exceeds any phone’s native browsing and resource potential, but also illustrates our success in offering OEMs a mobile browser with a WebKit based cloud computing infrastructure that is easy to integrate and significantly reduces cost.”

World’s Most Fully Featured Mobile Browser, Gets Even Better

BOLT has earned a reputation as the most fully featured mobile browser available, and with the 2.5 release BOLT enhances its already robust mobile browsing capabilities:

• Geolocation Support – BOLT 2.5’s geolocation feature allows a user with a GPS enabled device to pass latitude and longitude information to location enabled websites through the browser.
• Facebook Videos Support – BOLT, which offers the broadest support for streaming video in a mobile browser, now supports Facebook videos in addition to its support for the most popular Flash based video sites and all HTML5 video sites.
• Widget Availability on Home page – BOLT widgets are now available on the BOLT browser home page making it easier for people using any type of mobile phone to take part in the mobile app revolution. BOLT 2.5’s widget gallery includes weather, Wikipedia, and dictionary widgets, along with a Twitter widget and a Facebook widget.
• New Advanced Desktop Features – Along with the ability to perfectly render Web pages as they were meant to be seen from a PC, BOLT also offers easily switchable tabbed browsing, password manager, advanced inline text entry and editing, and now copy and paste improvements and a better address and search dialog on all pages.
• Download manager upgrades - BOLT 2.5 also features an improved download manager, allowing users to maintain download history even after exiting the browser and resume last download after browser re-launch.
• Polished User Interface – BOLT 2.5 includes many improvements to the design and layout of the browser including changes to the masthead, improvements to favorites, history and feeds selection, character entry enhancements, clickable icons, improved menu structure and displaying of RSS lists.

Webkit 5 Enhances BOLT’s HTML5 Compliance

Already the only WebKit-based cloud computing browser, the 2.5 release of BOLT is upgraded to Webkit 5, giving it the best HTML5 compliance of any browser in its class. Some of the largest online content providers and Web technology companies such as Google and Apple are embracing the use of the HTML5 standard, eliminating the need for third party add-ons, plug-ins and separate media players that have created obstacles for viewing and listening to streaming media via the mobile Web. BOLT’s increased compliance with HTML5 allows handset manufacturers and mobile network operators to offer streaming media on the growing number of website designed for new mobile computing platforms such as the Apple iPad and Google Android tablets on the widest range of mobile devices.

For a full list of features or to download BOLT 2.5 for free visit www.boltbrowser.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 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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BuzzCity, one of the world’s leading mobile advertising networks with over 2,500 publishers across the globe, and Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced an agreement to deliver mobile advertising via the acclaimed BOLT™ mobile browser. Using the BuzzCity Mobile Advertising Network, Bitstream plans to introduce a new revenue stream via strategically placed, relevant advertising.

“Advertising is a strong complement to many of the features offered within BOLT, allowing Bitstream to create a new revenue stream without interfering with the browsing experience or charging for downloads,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream. “Bitstream has been seeking the right partner for adding advertising to BOLT, and found that regions in which BOLT has its largest numbers of users align perfectly with where BuzzCity’s ad inventories are also strongest. In particular, India and Indonesia, two of BOLT’s largest markets, are countries where BuzzCity delivers the largest number of paid advertisements.”

The BOLT mobile browser has been downloaded by millions of people in over 200 countries and territories around the world. Since BOLT was first introduced in February 2009 its users have viewed more than 1.6 billion Web pages and are now exceeding a rate of 300 million page views each month.

“Advertisers are constantly seeking more channels to reach the right consumer, and a mobile browser such as BOLT is the perfect fit,” said KF Lai, CEO of BuzzCity. “BOLT is finding large numbers of users in both developed and developing markets, and thus has wide appeal for advertisers. In many instances, particularly in developing markets, BOLT is the primary medium by which a person can browse the Internet, making BOLT the only online platform many advertisers can use to reach consumers.”

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 BuzzCity
BuzzCity is a mobile media company offering brand owners and agencies access to a global advertising network on the mobile internet. The network is made up of publishers from across the world and BuzzCity’s own mobile media properties. As a leading international player, BuzzCity has developed in-depth knowledge of the mobile consumer and provides marketers with clear opportunities to reach this audience via its advertising and publisher programs. Additional information can be found at www.buzzcity.com.

A cumulative audience of nearly 400,000 visiting soccer fans from all over the world came to South Africa in June to watch 32 countries compete in the 19th FIFA World Cup tournament. As they attended games and enjoyed the festivities they sent home pictures, videos and messages using email and messaging services, all over wireless data networks. As one of the largest eXchange service providers to enable inter-network roaming, Aicent, Inc. (www.aicent.com), recorded huge surges in network traffic during the competition, as much as 300 percent over the weeks just prior.

“As the data from our network shows, the World Cup is truly a social event where fans want to share the revelry with friends and family,” said Lynn Liu, president & CEO at Aicent. “Wireless data networks made sharing the action better than ever before as fans sent back millions of pictures, videos, tweets, emails and text messages from games in South Africa to their friends back home. Subscribers from a great number of international wireless networks were all able to use their mobile phones from South Africa due to roaming eXchanges like Aicent.”

Aicent is a leading provider of data network, messaging and roaming solutions for mobile operators globally serving more than 2.5 billion mobile subscribers around the world. Aicent operates one of the world’s largest GPRS and 3G network eXchanges, directly connecting to over 100 operators, including nine of the world’s ten largest. Aicent’s MMS and SMS eXchanges is one of industry’s largest, interconnecting with over 150 mobile operators around the world.

Aicent observed that traffic correlated directly with the number of matches taking place on a specific day; the more matches in a day, the higher traffic would spike. The day with the highest volume of data traffic was Wednesday, June 23, the day that Nigeria and South Korea played to a tie, Argentina defeated Greece, England defeated Slovenia, and the United States defeated Algeria. The day with the next highest volume was Tuesday, June 15, when three matches between Italy and Paraguay, New Zealand and Slovakia, and Cote d’Ivoire and Portugal all ended in ties.

Aicent’s data shows that Americans were among the largest group of people visiting South Africa, with more than 60 percent of Aicent’s data traffic coming from customers of GSM operators in the United States. On days when the US National Team played, these operators experienced their largest spikes in traffic, with traffic leaving South Africa far and away exceeding traffic coming to South Africa by a ratio exceeding 4:1.

Soccer fans in South Africa relied on their mobile phones to share pictures, videos, live game updates and other messages with friends back home. In fact, according to Mayan Mathen, CTO of Dimension Data, during the World Cup, South Africa became one of the highest “tweet” sources in the world, referring to the Twitter social network phenomenon. World Cup fans in South Africa averaged 750 tweets per second, with some 3,500 going out every second during World Cup matches.

About Aicent, Inc.
Serving more than 2.5 billion mobile users around the world, Aicent Inc. is a leading provider of data network, messaging and roaming solutions for mobile operators globally. Aicent operates one of the world’s largest GPRS and 3G network eXchanges, directly connecting to over 100 operators, including nine of the world’s ten largest. Aicent operates one of world’s largest MMS and SMS eXchanges interconnecting with over 150 mobile operators around the world. On any given day, Aicent’s network facilitates over 100 million roaming transactions generated on 150 mobile networks in 114 countries. For more information visit www.aicent.com.