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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of wireless technologies, products and services, today announced that its Brew® Mobile Platform (Brew MP™) continues to gain momentum among a growing community of publishers, developers, operators and device manufacturers. Qualcomm has been working with software providers to pre-integrate and optimize key software components into the Brew MP operating system, shortening device manufacturers’ time to market and lowering their development costs.

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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.

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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.

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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 Las Vegas, Nevada, March 23 to 25 in booth 122. These mobile technologies include:

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

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