jqMobi (www.jqmobi.com), a new open source mobile development framework makes its public debut today.  jqMobi is a mobile-optimized, HTML5 rewrite of the ubiquitous jQuery framework which is used on over 50% of all desktop websites.  jqMobi provides stunning speed improvement (2.5X faster than desktop jQuery), size reduction (only 3K vs. 36K) and code efficiency, with a particular focus on delivering an identically high quality user experience to both iOS and Android devices. Mobile developers can join the community and download the code at www.jqmobi.com.

JavaScript frameworks like jqMobi provide common user interface and programming functions, reducing development effort and time. jqMobi includes a query selector engine, a user interface (UI) library, and a collection of plugins. On mobile devices, existing JavaScript UI frameworks like jQuery Mobile, JQTouch and Sencha Touch are all hampered by their roots in desktop Web browsers and HTML 4. Under these legacy UI frameworks, the user experience on Android-based smartphones is particularly poor.  Android devices now represent nearly 50% of the world smartphone market.

“It’s great to finally see a lightweight JS library specifically tailored for smartphone performance and inspired by the popular APIs that made jQuery famous,” said Paul Bakaus, Zynga Germany CTO and creator of jQuery UI. “To me, this is the hopeful prediction of the future of jQuery 2.0, today.”

jqMobi was contributed to the open mobile Web community by the developers at appMobi.

“With jqMobi we’ve given the mobile development world an HTML5-ready jQuery,” said Sam Abadir, appMobi CTO and founder. “The truth is, the single biggest issue facing mobile HTML5 developers is the lack of good user interfaces. There is nothing more critical to the success of mobile HTML5 in general. Apple set the bar high with its Cocoa Touch mobile interface and until now, similar quality UX tools haven’t existed for Web-based mobile developers, and that is why we’ve put this project into play. We’ve started this project with high expectations, focused around delivering speed, size advantages, and cross platform uniformity, and we look forward to seeing where the open source development community takes it from here.”

Speed

jqMobi outperforms jQuery by 3X on Android and 2.2X on iOs. The JSPERF.COM test suite enables comparison of raw engine performance by testing the three most common functions: single query selector, create element and append element.

Tests were performed on various Android and iOS versions revealing that jqMobi outperforms jQuery by 292% on Android and 223% on iOS. Improvement over Zepto was 5.5X on Android and 4X on iOs. Complete details of the tests and results can be viewed at www.jqmobi.com.

Size

The jqMobi engine weighs only 3741 bytes, just 1/10^th of jQuery, and less than half of Zepto. Code size is important for user interactivity in mobile because heavier pages take longer to load and to initialize. The full jqMobi library with UI code is also tiny, at just 15K gZipped. By comparison, jQuery Mobile is 62K, and Sencha Touch weighs in at 99K.

Cross Platform Uniformity

jqMobi was designed and tested specifically to provide identical experiences to users on both dominant smartphone platforms. Android has been a particular point of failure for desktop frameworks. A short video contrasting common UI functions on both platforms using each of the frameworks is available at www.jqmobi.com.

jqMobi is offered free of charge as an open source asset under the MIT X11 license, starting with a short private beta testing period which begins today. appMobi encourages interested developers to stay up to date with jqMobi development by joining the email list at www.jqmobi.com. The development of jqMobi and maintenance of the JQMOBI.COM site are sponsored by appMobi.

About appMobi
A bold proponent of the open Web, 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.  In 2011, the company released several of its core technologies as open source, including its cross platform mobile device API, mobiUs Web browser, and directCanvas HTML5 game acceleration. In December, appMobi was named “Most Promising Tech Company for 2012” by ReadWriteWeb.  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: Amazon, Adobe, Flash, Android, Google, Chrome, Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Sencha.

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Through a partnership with Portland-based mobile financial services firm Tyfone, OnPoint Community Credit Union today announced the launch of the iCashé Mobile Wallet program. iCashé Mobile Wallet provides OnPoint members with a simple and fun way to purchase gift cards on their mobile phones and send to anyone instantly by text message or email. OnPoint is the first credit union in the nation to offer the iCashé Mobile Wallet program to members.

Gift card recipients can use their cards in-store or online via their smart phone or with a printed copy of the confirmation email. More than 50 national retailers and restaurants are now offering the mobile gift cards for purchase, with local retail options expected to be added in the future. Current participating retailers include, American Airlines, Nike, K-Mart, Land’s End, Barnes & Noble, Overstock.com, REI and more.

“iCashé Mobile Wallet is the latest example of how OnPoint is offering the best technology and convenience services to its members,” said Rob Stuart, OnPoint Community Credit Union president and CEO. “We are happy to have a local company, Tyfone as our partner. Their commitment to providing secure and innovative mobile programs is remarkable.”

More information about Tyfone’s iCashé solution can be found at: www.iCashe.com.

About OnPoint Community Credit Union

OnPoint Community Credit Union is the largest credit union in Oregon, serving more than 226,000 members and with assets of $2.9 billion. Founded in 1932, OnPoint Community Credit Union’s membership is available to anyone who lives or works in one of 13 Oregon (Benton, Clackamas, Columbia, Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson, Lane, Linn, Marion, Multnomah, Polk, Washington and Yamhill) and two Washington counties (Skamania and Clark). More information is available at www.onpointcu.com or 503-228-7077 or 800-527-3932.

About Tyfone
Founded in 2004, Tyfone’s corporate headquarters are in Portland, Oregon, and its Asia-Pacific headquarters are in Bangalore, India. Tyfone connects money and mobility via a highly secure, scalable and flexible mobile financial services solution tailored to meet the evolving needs of consumers, financial institutions, mobile network operators, transportation companies and retailers. Operating in any standard memory card slot, Tyfone’s u4ia® platform and its companion SideTap™ memory card comprise the world’s first patented, neutral, and comprehensive memory card-based payments solution for mobile contactless payments. Tyfone and its partners enable a suite of services including Mobile Banking, Mobile Identity Management, Mobile Remote Payments, Mobile Retail Services and Mobile Contactless Payments. For more information visit www.tyfone.com.

Tyfone, iCashé, SideSafe, SideTap and u4ia are trademarks of Tyfone, Inc. All others names are the property of their respective owners.

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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. Bitstream India, Director of Research and Development Lokesh Joshi will be speaking at JavaOne 2011 held in Hyderabad, India May 10-11 in a session titled “Java Platform, Micro Edition and BOLT: Unlock the Value of Web Browsing”. This session is part of the JavaME, Mobile and Embedded track at the JavaOne two-day conference.

JavaOne 2011 in India will feature technical content and hands-on learning focused specifically on Java and next-generation development trends and technologies. These next-gen development technologies include rich enterprise applications (REAs), service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the database.

“Java Platform, Micro Edition and BOLT: Unlock the Value of Web Browsing” session description:

“While Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) is one of the largest platforms used on mobile devices, getting feature-rich user experiences on even the most basic feature phone can prove challenging. This session will focus on how Bitstream’s BOLT browser integrates cloud-based technologies with Java technology on devices to offer end users a rewarding user experience. BOLT provides a smartphone-like browsing experience on feature phones, offering PC-style page rendering, widgets, streaming video, and social networking functionality, and advanced features such as tabbed browsing, to the nearly 1 billion internet-enabled Java phones. BOLT has been installed by more than 20 million users worldwide, demonstrating the popularity of Java-enabled phones.”

In addition to the session, which will take place 12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. IST on May 10, Bitstream will have the following resources for those in attendance at JavaOne:

• Online press kit available at http://bitstream.mobilitypr.com.
• Media availability of Director of Research and Development Lokesh Joshi and Director of Product Management Ritu Varma.
• Please contact boltsales@bitstream.com to schedule to meet at JavaOne.

BOLT mobile browser, the industry’s most feature-rich mobile browser, delivers fast page load times along with a vast array of capabilities normally associated with desktop computer browsers to any type of mobile phone platform. Bitstream engineered a cloud-computing architecture that enables all of the BOLT browser’s advanced features and blazing fast Web page rendering. 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, 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.

To receive future news from Bitstream or to arrange a meeting with Bitstream executives, contact Bitstream media contacts:

• John Sidline: +1-503-989-5474 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Melissa Burns: +1-208-850-5939 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Holly Woolard: +1-503-360-7144 (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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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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appMobi^® (www.appmobi.com) was named a finalist in the Mobile Applications – Mobile Commerce category of CTIA’s annual Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards competition. The CTIA E-Tech Awards honor the most innovative new products in 14 categories spanning the areas of mobile apps, consumer electronics, enterprise and infrastructure. Winners will be announced at International CTIA WIRELESS^® 2011 taking place March 22-24 in Orlando, Florida.

appMobi’s entry 1Touch Frictionless Mobile Payments will debut at CTIA WIRELESS 2011.

More than 300 entries were judged by a panel of media and industry analysts, and scored on innovation, functionality, technological importance, implementation and overall “wow” factor. E-Tech winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on Wednesday, March 23 at 2:00 p.m. EST from CTIA’s Exhibit Innovations Stage.

appMobi will have news at CTIA regarding its mobile ecosystem solution and will be showcasing its technology at ShowStoppers on March 21 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Rosen Centre on International Drive, and will also be exhibiting in Booth 3196 located inside the Apps World section of the exhibit floor. To meet with appMobi contact appmobi@mobilitypr.com.

About CTIA Shows
CTIA shows bring together all industries advanced by wireless technology for intense business, learning and networking. International CTIA WIRELESS® 2011 takes place at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, March 22-24. CTIA ENTERPRISE & APPLICATIONS™ 2011 takes place in San Diego, October 11-13. Visit www.ctiashow.com. CTIA–The Wireless Association® is an international organization representing the wireless communications industry. Visit www.ctia.org.

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.

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MobileTrax (www.mobiletrax.com), an industry research firm covering the mobile and wireless market, announced today the 2011 Mobility Awards Selection Committee. Made up of leading press and analysts that cover the mobile and wireless market, the selection committee will select the winners of the 2011 Mobility Awards which will be announced at the Wireless Innovators Dinner on Tuesday, March 22 at the Rosen Centre in Orlando, Florida.

The 2011 Mobility Awards Selection Committee includes the following:

1. Antonio Wells, AndroidTapp.com
2. Harriet Mankoff, Bloomberg TV
3. Susan Nunziata, CIO Insight
4. Matt Hamblen, Computerworld
5. Avi Greengart, Current Analysis
6. Kyle  Sandler, Droid Guy
7. Rick Merritt, EE Times
8. Steve  Wellman, eWeek
9. Lynnette Luna, FierceMobileIT
10. Ellen Daley, Forrester Research
11. James Brehm, Frost & Sullivan
12. Vikrant Ghandi, Frost & Sullivan
13. Brent Iadarola, Frost & Sullivan
14. Jeanine Sterling, Frost & Sullivan
15. Phil  Hendrix, immr
16. Steve Wildstrom, Independent
17. Frank Dickson, In-Stat
18. Allen Nogee, In-Stat
19. Todd Bernhard, iPhone Life Magazine
20. Sarah Reedy, Light Reading
21. Gerry Purdy, MobileTrax
22. Keith Shaw, Network World
23. Sascha Segan, PCMAG.com
24. Dan Meyer, RCR Wireless
25. Harry McCracken, Technologizer
26. Tim Scannell, TechTarget
27. Mark Kellner, The Washington Times
28. Michael Lasky, Wired.com
29. Monica  Alleven, Wireless Week
30. Andrew  Berg, Wireless Week

Nominations for the 2011 Mobility Awards have been made in 47 categories plus three special awards including Rookie of the Year, Most Important M&A Transaction and Product of the year. A list of the 200+ nominations is available at the MobileTrax web site (www.mobiletrax.com).

The winners of the 2011 Mobility Awards will be announced at the Wireless Innovators Dinner, co-located this spring with CTIA Wireless 2011. The dinner event will be emceed by Dr. J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D., principal analyst at MobileTrax, and will be attended by senior executives representing wireless operators, handset makers, wireless device manufacturers, software and service providers, venture capitalists, investment bankers, industry analysts and select members of the press.

The Wireless Innovators Dinner program features four minute technology demonstrations from featured companies selected by MobileTrax and a keynote address.

“The Mobility Awards have come to represent recognition for the best and finest mobile & wireless products and services,” said Dr. J. Gerry Purdy, Principal Analyst with MobileTrax. “There are many outstanding products that have been nominated for a 2011 Mobility Award. The selection committee will have a difficult time deciding the winners.”

MobileTrax has forged a strategic alliance with ShowStoppers, the global leader in producing press-only events. Through this alliance companies participating in ShowStoppers at CTIA are given special consideration and pricing for participating in the Wireless Innovators Dinner. Companies exhibiting at ShowStoppers CTIA will enjoy a single point of contact for their vendor exhibits at both ShowStoppers and Wireless Innovators, resulting in maximum exposure with minimal effort.  For more information on ShowStoppers visit www.showstoppers.com.

All those interested in demonstrating, speaking, sponsoring or attending Wireless Innovators Dinner should contact Gerry Purdy at gerry.purdy@mobiletrax.com.

About MobileTrax

MobileTrax is a leading market research firm that focuses on the mobile and wireless market. Dr. Purdy writes and publishes Inside Mobile weekly that is read by over 130,000 people. MobileTrax conducts proprietary consulting services such as writing white papers, making strategic introductions and assisting clients with strategic planning.  Finally, MobileTrax produces Wireless Innovators Dinner twice a year for leaders in the mobile and wireless market. More information can be found at www.mobiletrax.com.

Note: Brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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) 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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