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

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

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

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

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

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

OEMs:

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

Mobile Network Operators

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

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

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

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

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

About BOLT
The acclaimed BOLT mobile browser has the most faithful rendering of Web pages of any browser in its class. This fast mobile browser quickly and accurately displays Web pages on mobile phones just as they would appear on desktop computers. BOLT is the only browser for mobile phones of all types to support streaming video from popular media sharing sites such as YouTube and MySpace. Based on the same WebKit rendering engine used by the iPhone’s Safari and Android’s Chrome browsers, BOLT is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones. BOLT features a patented split-screen viewing mode, intuitive keystroke shortcuts and copy/paste functionality, and offers a user-friendly, feature-rich mobile browsing experience for even entry-level mobile phones. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. develops software technologies and applications for the graphic art and mobile communications industries. Bitstream’s award-winning fonts and font technologies enable device manufacturers and application developers to render the highest quality text in any language, on any device, at any resolution. The company’s MyFonts brand is the world’s leading provider of fonts to consumers. Bitstream’s Pageflex brand enables marketers to easily produce customized communications in print, email, and online. The company’s latest offering is the BOLT mobile browser, which has been installed by millions of users worldwide since its release in February 2009. For more information visit www.bitstream.com.

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About Talkster
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Компания Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) сегодня представила BOLT^TM, браузер для мобильных телефонов всех типов для русского и всех языков, использующих кириллические алфавиты. BOLT – первый браузер, полностью оптимизированный для мобильных телефонов – предоставляет быстрый и аналогичный компьютерному доступ в Интернет практически с любого мобильного телефона, от простого до смартфона.

BOLT впервые был представлен в феврале в Барселоне на конгрессе Mobile World с поддержкой английского и других западноевропейских языков. С тех пор BOLT был установлен более одного миллиона раз и обновлён, что добавило ему много важных новых свойств, а также заработал похвалу средств массовой информации, блоггеров и пользователей во всем мире.

«По всему миру люди обнаруживают мощность и потенциал своих мобильных телефонов», сказала Анна Шаньон – президент и генеральный директор Bitstream. «Население стран СНГ – среди самых грамотных пользователей мобильных телефонов в мире, и во многих из них количество телефонов на душу населения превышает 100 %. Люди, использующие телефон для социальных контактов, электронной почты, покупки товаров и игр в режиме онлайн, теперь смогут бесплатно получить полноценный браузер для своих телефонов. С нашей поддержкой кириллицы, мы ожидаем, что BOLT станет таким же успешным в данном регионе, как и в Северной Америке, Индии и Западной Европе».

BOLT, оптимизированный для бережной передачи данных, обладает непревзойденной скоростью – не менее чем на 25-50% быстрее конкурентов. BOLT предлагает потоковое видео, высокий стандарт совместимости, богатую структуру и графику, позволяющую людям просматривать веб-сайты на своих мобильных телефонах так же, как и на ПК. BOLT – единственный мобильный браузер, позволяющий наслаждаться потоковым видео на обычном мобильном телефоне с таких популярных видео-сервисов, как RuTube, YouTube, vids.myspace.com, video.yahoo.com, blip.tv, dailymotion.com, metacafe.com и т.д.

Созданный при помощи запатентованных технологий компрессии, навигации и воспроизведения BOLT позволяет пользователям быстро и просто находить и читать информацию. Как только пользователи доходят до конкретной части большой веб-страницы, они могут увеличить текст и изображения, так чтобы они выглядели четко даже на маленьком экране мобильного телефона.

Свойства BOLT:

• Быстрое, безопасное отображение веб-сайтов, как на экране ПК, на телефонах высокого и низкого класса
• Возможность демонстрации потокового видео
• Режим разделенного и полного экрана для упрощения навигации и просмотра
• Копирование и вставка текста
• Ввод и редактирование текста непосредственно в режиме онлайн
• Поддержка жирного шрифта, курсива, верхнего индекса и других текстовых стилей
• Загрузка файлов, например, видеоклипов на YouTube
• Добавление и организация закладок избранного, просмотр истории навигации
• Интуитивные ярлыки на клавишах для быстрой навигации и выбора содержимого
• Защита от шпионских программ и злонамеренных или поврежденных дополнений
• Просмотр веб-сайтов при использовании меньшего количества данных, чем браузеры конкурентов
• Переключение между веб-сайтами с выводом изображений или без них

Мы понимаем, что некоторые из используемых ныне телефонов не поддерживают объемные приложения и ограничения провайдеров на размер скачиваемых приложений, поэтому BOLT доступен в легкой версии BOLT lite^TM. BOLT lite содержит все основные свойства мобильного браузера BOLT и сохраняет богатую функциональность BOLT, оптимальную скорость скачивания и расположение страниц как на компьютере. 140-килобайтный пакет BOLT lite оптимизирован для устройств начального уровня посредством удаления не являющихся необходимыми свойств, таких как вертикальное и горизонтальное отображение, встроенное видео, установки транспортных протоколов, копирование и вставка текста, организация избранного, встроенное редактирование, поиск по странице и увеличение в 3 раза. Как BOLT, так и BOLT lite поддерживают дополнительные языки в данной версии.

Благодаря поддержке кириллицы BOLT верно отображает веб-страницы, написанные на кириллице. С таким огромным опытом в разработке программ и шрифтовых технологиях, Bitstream смогла создать мобильный браузер BOLT для масштабирования текста и изображений в шести размерах: маленький, средний, большой, xl, xxl и 3xl. Ни один другой браузер для мобильных телефонов или смартфонов BlackBerry не может отображать или масштабировать кириллический текст с такой амплитудой и четкостью, как BOLT.

«Bitstream ожидает, что BOLT станет очень популярен в Восточной Европе», добавила Шаньон. «Мы специально разработали BOLT, чтобы облегчить людям использование мобильных телефонов для работы в сети, поиска, общения и просмотра видео. Наши пользователи признали наш дизайн, сделав Google, Orkut, Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail и YouTube самыми просматриваемыми при помощи BOLT сайтами».

Использование BOLT:

Мобильный браузер BOLT был установлен более миллиона раз людьми по всему миру. BOLT установлен на более чем 1 000 моделей мобильных телефонов более чем 50 производителей.

Люди проводят много времени, используя BOLT. Более 20% всех подключений BOLT длятся более 30 минут; более 10% всех подключений длятся более 1 часа. Причина того, что подключения BOLT длятся так долго в том, что пользователи проводят много времени в социальных сетях. 40% веб-сайтов, которые посещают при помощи BOLT – социальные сети. В зависимости от географического местоположения, Facebook или Orkut были самыми посещаемыми веб-сайтами среди пользователей BOLT.

Главные направления пользователей BOLT:

• Социальные сети (например, ВКонтакте, Facebook)
• Поиск (например, Яндекс, Google)
• Видео веб-сайты (например, RuTube, YouTube)
• Микроблоги (например, Friendster, Twitter)
• Новости (например, Лента.Ру, CNN)
• Развлечения (например, Травиан, One Manga)
• Спорт (например, СПОРТ-ЭКСПРЕСС, ESPN)
• Электронная почта (например, Mail.Ru, Gmail)
• Программы для мобильных телефонов (например, Zedge, Peperonity)
• Покупка товаров (например, Amazon.com, eBay)

BOLT и BOLT lite доступны всем бесплатно как часть общего бета-тестирования Bitstream. Посетите http://boltbrowser.com, чтобы скачать BOLT сегодня же.

О BOLT:
Браузер для мобильных телефонов BOLT, совместимый с большинством из 4 миллиардов мобильных телефонов на Земле, предлагает непревзойденную скорость и стиль работы как на компьютере, включая возможность демонстрации потокового видео. Запатентованное полиэкранное отображение и интуитивные ярлыки на клавишах упрощают навигацию веб-сайтов. Загрузите BOLT бесплатно на http://boltbrowser.com – мобильный Интернет еще никогда не выглядел так хорошо на вашем телефоне.

О Bitstream:
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) – компания по разработке программного обеспечения, концентрирующаяся на распространении уникального программного обеспечения на широких рынках. Основное программное обеспечение компании включает в себя удостоенные наград шрифты и поддерживающие их программы, мобильные браузеры и различное программное обеспечение для публикации данных и удаленной публикации для персонифицированного рынка. Для дальнейшей информации о Bitstream, пожалуйста, посетите www.bitstream.com.

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In the first 24 hours since releasing its newest version of its acclaimed BOLT^TM mobile browser, dubbed Beta3, Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) recorded more than 1 million pages rendered for the first time since BOLT debuted at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February 2009. Since February, BOLT has experienced a steady adoption rate averaging more than 50 percent growth in users per month. Over the last three months the company notes BOLT average usage has nearly tripled.

BOLT burst onto the mobile scene in grand fashion by racking up 1 million installations in just 18 weeks. With new features added in subsequent releases adding to the unique capabilities of this free mobile application, users can now use the “real web” from their mobile phones.

BOLT’s Unique Capabilities Include:

• Fastest browser on the market – routinely at least 25 to 50 percent faster than competitors
• Displays full websites just as they would appear on desktop computers
• Watch videos from popular video services such as YouTube
• Copy and paste text
• Upload files to websites such as videos and photos

“There is a lot of talk lately about the so-called ‘mobile Internet,’” said Anna Chagnon, Bitstream’s president and CEO. “But the reality is that websites and web-based services built for the mobile platform are a very small slice of the ‘real web,’ and many of these mobile sites have far less content or utility than their desktop site companions. So we designed BOLT not to be a mobile Internet application, but rather an application to see the real web from any type of mobile phone. This approach can extend the reach of the Internet to an estimated 2 billion or more people than those who rely on desktop computers for Internet access.”

Recent data also includes usage from the new BOLT liteTM, a new light version of the BOLT mobile browser. Recognizing that some mobile phones currently in use cannot support robust applications and some network providers limit the size of application downloads, Bitstream BOLT lite, a smaller application that includes all the essential features of the BOLT mobile browser but excludes some of the advanced features to maintain a small application size that can work on lower-end phones and virtually every mobile network. BOLT lite retains BOLT’s feature-rich functionality, best-of-breed download speeds and desktop PC-style page layout.

BOLT and BOLT lite are available for free to anyone as part of Bitstream’s public beta test. Visit http://boltbrowser.com to download BOLT today. People who have already installed a previous version of BOLT on their phones will be prompted to download and install the update when they next start the mobile browser.

About BOLT:
The BOLT mobile browser, compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones, offers unrivaled speed and desktop-style web browsing including the ability to stream video. A patented split-screen viewing and intuitive keystroke shortcuts make navigating web pages simple. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream:
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company focused on bringing unique software products to a wide variety of markets. The company’s core software products include award-winning fonts and font rendering software, mobile browsing and variable data publishing and web-to-print software for personalized marketing. For more information about Bitstream please visit www.bitstream.com.

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced the availability of its much anticipated update to BOLT^TM, the company’s web browser for mobile phones of all types. Complementing improvements to existing features in the even faster Beta3 release of BOLT are the ability to copy and paste text from web pages, enhanced font rendering, inline entry of text into online forms and support for languages using Cyrillic alphabets.

Based on beta user input after more than one million installs of the BOLT mobile browser, Bitstream added new features that make BOLT the most fully-featured browser for the widest range of mobile phones.

BOLT’s new features let users:

• Copy and paste text
• Enter and edit text directly within online text boxes
• Upload files such as videos to YouTube or pictures to Photobucket
• Order favorites and arrange them into custom folders
• Toggle between viewing websites with or without images displayed

As part of its commitment to the BOLT user community, Bitstream has also created a forum at http://boltbrowser.com/forums/ where BOLT users can post questions and support issues in a public conversation. Bitstream’s team of technologists will monitor these conversations, help users solve device-specific issues, offer tips and tricks for using BOLT and more easily learn the new features BOLT users desire.

BOLT Beta3 also includes many enhancements based on feedback from beta users, including:

• Rendering bold, italics, superscript and other rich text styles
• Enhanced rendering of complex web pages
• Faster page rendering
• Servers upgraded to WebKit 4

Recognizing that some mobile phones currently in use cannot support robust applications and some network providers limit the size of application downloads, Bitstream has created a new light version of the BOLT mobile browser, BOLT lite^TM. 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. BOLT lite’s 140kb package has been optimized for entry-level devices by eliminating BOLT’s non-critical features such as landscape and portrait orientation settings, inline videos, transport protocol settings, copy-paste operations, favorites organization, inline editing, find in page feature, and 3XL magnification. Both BOLT and BOLT lite include the additional language support in this release.

The new font support faithfully renders web pages using Cyrillic alphabets for languages such as Russian and Ukrainian, making BOLT usable for the more than 200 million mobile phone subscribers in Eastern Europe. With its heritage in software development and font technologies, Bitstream has built the BOLT mobile browser to scale text and images in six display sizes: small, medium, large, xl, xxl and 3xl. No other mobile browser for feature phones or BlackBerry smartphones can display or scale Cyrillic text with the size range or crisp clarity of BOLT.

“Bitstream expects BOLT to become very popular in Eastern Europe where many countries have mobile penetration rates exceeding 100 percent,” said Anna Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream. “We specifically engineered BOLT to make it easy for people to use their mobile phones for social networking, searching, communicating and watching videos. Our users have validated our design, making Google, Orkut, Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and YouTube the top sites viewed on BOLT.”

BOLT features unrivaled speed – consistently at least 25 to 50 percent faster than competitors. The WebKit based BOLT browser offers ultra-fast viewing of streaming and flash video, high standards compliance, rich media, and graphics enabling people to view websites just as they do on a PC.

BOLT Usage:

The BOLT mobile browser has been installed more than 1 million times by people all over the world. BOLT has been installed on more than 1,000 mobile phone models from over 50 handset manufacturers.

People are spending a lot of time using BOLT. More than 20 percent of all BOLT sessions last longer than 30 minutes; more than 10 percent of all sessions last longer than one hour. One reason BOLT sessions last so long is that users are spending a lot of time social networking. A whopping 40 percent of all websites visited using BOLT are social networks. Depending on the geographic region, either Facebook or Orkut is the most visited website by BOLT users.

The top destinations of BOLT users are:

• Social networks (e.g., Facebook, Orkut)
• Search (e.g., Google, Yahoo!)
• Video websites (e.g., YouTube, Dailymotion)
• Microblogs (e.g., Friendster, Twitter)
• News (e.g., CNN, the New York Times)
• Entertainment (e.g., One Manga, Trenton Made)
• Sports (e.g., ESPN, Cricinfo.com)
• Email (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo! Mail)
• Mobile Content (e.g., Zedge, Peperonity)
• Shopping (e.g., Amazon.com, eBay)

People are enjoying the video streaming feature of the BOLT browser – the only mobile browser that lets people enjoy streaming videos on average mobile phones from such popular video services as YouTube, vids.myspace.com, video.yahoo.com, blip.tv, dailymotion.com, metacafe.com and more. Of the total bandwidth used by all BOLT users surfing the Internet, a substantial portion was consumed by streaming video. To complement the new support for Cyrillic alphabets, BOLT now supports video streams from the popular Russian video sharing site, RuTube (http://rutube.ru/).

Built with proprietary compression, navigation and rendering technologies, BOLT enables users to find and read information quickly and easily. Once users have navigated to the specific section of the large web page they are viewing, they can then zoom in to display clear text and images that look crisp on even small mobile phone screens.

BOLT’s feature set includes:

• Fast, secure, desktop-style web browsing on both high-end and low-end handsets
• Streaming video capabilities
• Split screen and full screen modes for easy navigation and viewing
• Easily add and select favorites and view browsing history
• Intuitive keystroke shortcuts for easier navigation and content selection
• Protection against spyware and malicious or faulty add-ons
• 23:1 compression uses less data than competing browsers

BOLT and BOLT lite are available for free to anyone as part of Bitstream’s public beta test. Visit http://boltbrowser.com to download BOLT today. People who have already installed a previous version of BOLT on their phones will be prompted to download and install the update when they next start the mobile browser.

About BOLT:
The BOLT mobile browser, compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones, offers unrivaled speed and desktop-style web browsing including the ability to stream video.  A patented split-screen viewing and intuitive keystroke shortcuts make navigating web pages simple.  Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream:
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company focused on bringing unique software products to a wide variety of markets. The company’s core software products include award-winning fonts and font rendering software, mobile browsing and variable data publishing and web-to-print software for personalized marketing. For more information about Bitstream please visit www.bitstream.com.

BOLT and BOLT lite are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. All other referenced product and brand names are trademarks of their respective companies.

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced that the BOLT^TM mobile browser, the company’s web browser for mobile phones of all types, has passed a major milestone, achieving its one millionth install just 19 weeks – less than five months – after its public debut.

The BOLT mobile browser, built to be used on a wide range of mobile phones from simple “feature” phones to more advanced devices such as BlackBerry smartphones, has averaged greater than 50 percent growth in usage each month since the application made its public debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this past February. Since its introduction, BOLT users have consumed more than 22 terabytes (22,000 gigabytes) of data from 61 million web pages.

“It’s been fascinating to see the similarities in how BOLT is being used by people all over the world, despite different geographies, languages and cultures,” said Anna Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream. “For example, social networking is extremely popular all around the world. In some countries Facebook is the number one website visited by BOLT users, while in other countries Orkut leads. Even though the web destinations may be different, the usage patterns are strikingly similar all over the globe.”

BOLT users worldwide are discovering that BOLT’s enhanced browsing experience leads them to spend more and more time surfing the web from their mobile phones. More than 20 percent of BOLT users spend 30 minutes surfing the Internet per session, with more than half of those – a figure that continues to grow – spending more than an hour per session. In addition to social networking, search, web-based email and video websites are top ten destinations all around the world.

Built with proprietary compression, navigation and rendering technologies, BOLT enables users to find and read information quickly and easily. Once users have navigated to the specific section of the large web page they are viewing, they can then zoom in to display clear text and images that look crisp on even small mobile phone screens.

People are particularly enjoying the video streaming feature of the BOLT browser – the only mobile browser that lets people enjoy streaming videos on average mobile phones from such popular video services as YouTube, vids.myspace.com, video.yahoo.com, blip.tv, dailymotion.com, metacafe.com and more. Of the total bandwidth used by all BOLT users surfing the Internet, nearly one third was consumed by streaming video.

BOLT’s feature set includes:

• Fast, secure, desktop-style web browsing on both high-end and low-end handsets
• Streaming video capabilities
• Split screen and full screen modes for easy navigation and viewing
• Ability to easily add and select favorites and view browsing history
• Intuitive keystroke shortcuts for easier navigation and content selection
• Protection against spyware and malicious or faulty add-ons
• 23:1 compression, which uses less data than competing browsers

BOLT is available for free to anyone as part of its public beta test. Visit http://boltbrowser.com to download BOLT today.

About BOLT:
The BOLT mobile browser, compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones, offers unrivaled speed and desktop-style web browsing including the ability to stream video. A patented split-screen viewing and intuitive keystroke shortcuts make navigating web pages simple. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream:
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company focused on bringing unique software products to a wide variety of markets. The company’s core software products include award-winning fonts and font rendering software, mobile browsing and variable data publishing and web-to-print software for personalized marketing. For more information about Bitstream please visit www.bitstream.com.

Talkster (www.Talkster.com), the company delivering brands and publishers instant mobile content delivery services including text, video, calling and web, announced today it will be exhibiting and conducting business development meetings at World Telemedia 2009 (WT09), in Malta, April 26-28.

About World Telemedia 2009
Held on the beautiful island of Malta, World Telemedia 2009 is the only European event for premium content and services companies focused on linking the power of the media and marketing with network billing collection and delivery. As many markets enter a period of economic uncertainty, WT09 focuses on areas that represent a genuine opportunity for service providers and media groups alike and showcases the content, services and applications that consumers will continue to demand.

Talkster at World Telemedia 2009
Talkster executives will join leading telemedia players at WT09 to conduct business development meetings and demonstrate the ways brands and publishers can create new revenue streams using talki, Talkster’s mobile application.

With talki, companies can deliver mobile content and advertising to their customers’ existing phones with no SMS opt-in issues and zero cost to push new content updates, along with value added communications services such as texting, picture messaging and worldwide calling.

Talkster will be exhibiting at WT09. To schedule a meeting with Talkster executives at WT09 email partners@talkster.com or call +44 (0) 871 2400112.

About Talkster
Talkster is revolutionizing communications with award-winning ad-supported and software-based technologies. Through its Free World DialingTM service and talkiTM mobile application Talkster is giving consumers highly affordable alternatives to long distance and international calling, plus text and picture messaging. Talkster’s talki white label application allows companies to create new opportunities for revenue and marketing by offering customers compelling services delivered through a branded mobile interface. From your mobile phone visit http://free.talkster.com to start using Free World Dialing, and http://m.talki.me to download talki. For more information visit Talkster at www.Talkster.com.

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced that its BOLT^TM Mobile Browser has been selected by the editors of CNET’s Webware as a finalist in this year’s Webware 100 Awards for Browsing, recognizing BOLT as one of the most innovative new web services. The finalists are selected by the editors of Webware, while the ultimate winner will be selected via public voting. The final results will be announced on Tuesday, May 19, 2009.

BOLT has taken the mobile browsing space by storm since its public beta release at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. Feedback from these initial beta users resulted in a significantly enhanced Beta2 version, released in April during CTIA, earning BOLT glowing editorial reviews and user feedback.

BOLT’s feature set includes:

• Fast, secure, desktop-style web browsing on both high-end and low-end handsets
• Streaming video capabilities
• Split screen and full screen browsing modes expediting page navigation
• Intuitive keystroke shortcuts for easier navigation and content selection
• Secure browsing and shopping from nearly any mobile phone
• Reduced data usage

“The feedback that we have received in the short time we have been in beta has been invaluable and has enabled us to make further improvements that will undoubtedly improve the user experience,” said Anna Chagnon, CEO of Bitstream. “Making the Webware 100 list is affirmation that we are taking the right steps in providing a superior mobile browsing experience to people using all types of cell phones.”

Webware (www.webware.com) provides the latest information on Web 2.0 sites, services and applications. Its timely and relevant blog entries about hundreds of web-based services, such as wikis, blogs and social networking sites, help users determine the best products for them to use in their daily lives. Webware is led by veteran tech journalist and CNET Editor-at-Large Rafe Needleman, with additional entries from the CNET editors. Webware editors received and reviewed hundreds of entries.

Voting closes on Thursday, April 30, 2009 and can be accessed at http://www.webware.com/100.

The ten categories include Audio and Music; Browsing; Commerce; Communications; Infrastructure and Storage; Location-based Services; Photo and Video; Productivity; Search and Reference; and Social Networking and Publishing.

Nearly 2 million votes were cast in the 2008 Webware 100 Awards. Last year’s winners can be seen here: http://www.webware.com/html/ww/100/2008/winners.html?tag=snav.

About BOLT:
The BOLT mobile browser, compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones, offers unrivaled speed and desktop-style web browsing including the ability to stream video. A patented split-screen viewing and intuitive keystroke shortcuts make navigating web pages simple. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream:
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company focused on bringing unique software products to a wide variety of markets. The company’s core software products include award-winning fonts and font rendering software, mobile browsing and variable data publishing and web-to-print software for personalized marketing. For more information about Bitstream please visit www.bitstream.com.

Dexterra Inc., a leading provider of software to automate and manage mobile workforces, announced today that ThyssenKrupp Elevator (TKE) Americas Business Unit has selected the Dexterra Mobile Service^TM application, based on the Dexterra Concert^TM mobility platform, to mobilize its approximate 5,000 field operations employees in more than 100 different locations. TKE chose the off-the-shelf Dexterra Mobile Service application for its ability to tightly integrate with the elevator company’s enterprise Oracle CRM/ERP systems which will in turn provide its workforce with the process-rich data they need while working in the field.

ThyssenKrupp Elevator is the largest producer of elevators in North America, and is one of the world’s premier manufacturers, installers and service providers for vertical and horizontal transportation. With over 10,000 employees and more than 100 branch and service locations in North America alone, it is of utmost importance that TKE and its field workforce is able to stay on the cutting edge with innovative technology.

“Dexterra sets itself apart from the competition not only in its mobile platform capabilities, but through its ability to offer off-the-shelf applications that will allow us to rapidly realize value in this tough economic environment,” said Barry Pletch, CEO, ThyssenKrupp Elevators AMS. “The productivity of our field service workers is challenged because of the complexity of our legacy back end systems. We anticipate that by streamlining and optimizing these business processes with Dexterra, we can improve our company’s bottom line in very short order, offering us a real tangible opportunity to improve customer satisfaction, increase productivity and reduce our operational costs.”

“Delivering fully and natively integrated end-to-end solutions for employees in the field helps companies like TKE to automate their workflow and get the most benefit from their mobility solution,” said Rob O’Farrell, general manager of Mobile Platform and Applications for Dexterra. “Dexterra is helping TKE streamline business processes and gain a competitive edge by enabling their field operations techs to take real-time business actions in the field, which in turn will help them to fully realize their investment in their existing back-office systems.”

About ThyssenKrupp Elevator
ThyssenKrupp Elevator, Americas Business Unit, is the largest producer of elevators in North America, with over 10,000 employees, more than 100 branch and service locations, and sales of over 2.5 billion US dollars. ThyssenKrupp Elevator, Americas Business Unit, oversees all business for the operations in the USA, Canada, Central and South America. It is part of ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG, one of the leading elevator companies in the world, represented at over 800 locations in more than 60 countries. With nearly 40,000 employees, the company generated sales of approximately 5.0 billion euros in the fiscal year ended September 30, 2008. Its capabilities include passenger and freight elevators, escalators and moving walks, stair and platform lifts, passenger boarding bridges as well as quality service for all products. For more information, visit www.thyssenkruppelevator.com and www.seewhatwebuilt.com

About Dexterra
The business mobility company^TM. Dexterra provides a broad portfolio of mobile applications built on its open mobility platform, Dexterra Concert^TM, that enables businesses worldwide to manage and optimize their mobile workforces. Dexterra supports the largest selection of mobile devices and integrates with the widest range of enterprise back-office systems in use today. Dexterra’s end-to-end solutions help companies large and small experience rapid deployments, greater returns, higher customer and user satisfaction, and a longer lifespan over any other competing solution.

Dexterra has operations in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific and a vast network of global partners including Accenture, AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, RIM and Telstra. For more information, visit www.dexterra.com.

©2009 Dexterra, Inc. All Rights Reserved. “Dexterra” is a registered trademark, and “Concert” and “The Business Mobility Company” are trademarks of Dexterra, Inc.

With well over 300,000 users from around the world participating in a public beta that began in February, Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced that BOLT^TM, the company’s web browser for mobile phones of all types, will get a significant upgrade today.

BOLT’s new features include:

• Significantly improved BlackBerry scrolling speed and control
• A new 3XL (extra large) magnification mode with content 33.3 percent bigger than in 2XL
• Double tap approach to select links on touchscreen devices like the BlackBerry storm (eliminates inadvertent clicks)
• Wi-Fi auto-selection as default option when Wi-Fi is both enabled and available
• Save and view pages locally on the phone
• Support for folders in favorites
• A new landscape viewing feature
• Improved magnifier dragging in split screen mode on the BlackBerry Storm

BOLT Beta2 also includes many enhancements based on feedback from beta users, including:

• Improved video quality on mpeg4 capable devices
• Improved scrolling speed on image-rich pages
• A user preferences page to reduce menu clutter, especially useful on BlackBerry smartphones where the native menu structure, without sub-menus, is utilized

Optimized to conserve battery life and data transmissions, BOLT features unrivaled speed – consistently 25 to 50 percent faster than competitors. The WebKit based BOLT browser offers ultra-fast viewing of streaming and flash video, high standards compliance, rich media and graphics enabling people to view websites just as they do on a PC.

Built with proprietary compression, navigation and rendering technologies, BOLT enables users to find and read information quickly and easily. Once users have navigated to the specific section of the large web page they are viewing, they can then zoom in to display clear text and images that look crisp on even small mobile phone screens.

BOLT’s feature set includes:

• Fast, secure, desktop-style web browsing on both high-end and low-end handsets
• Streaming video capabilities
• Split screen and full screen modes for easy navigation and viewing
• Easily add and select favorites and view browsing history
• Intuitive keystroke shortcuts for easier navigation and content selection
• Protection against spyware and malicious or faulty add-ons
• Extends battery life and uses less data than competing browsers

BOLT Usage:

With over 300,000 users, BOLT is being used on every continent on the globe. The top ten domains visited by BOLT’s users include:

1. google.com
2. orkut.com
3. facebook.com
4. yahoo.com
5. youtube.com
6. friendster.com
7. myspace.com
8. hi5.com
9. craigslist.org
10. mocospace.com

“It’s interesting to watch how people use BOLT to connect to friends and information. Most of the heavy usage is around social networking, with about 10 percent of users spending well over an hour per session online with BOLT. We see Google visitors using search, mail, maps and translation services while Yahoo visitors use mail, messenger, fantasy sports and finance. It’s also interesting to see how BlackBerry users seem to prefer using BOLT for Facebook instead of the BlackBerry Facebook application,” said Sampo Kaasila, vice president of research & development at Bitstream.

People are enjoying the video streaming feature of the BOLT browser – the only mobile browser that lets people enjoy streaming videos on average mobile phones from such popular video services as YouTube, vids.myspace.com, video.yahoo.com, blip.tv, dailymotion.com, metacafe.com and more. Of the total bandwidth used by all BOLT users surfing the Internet, nearly a third was consumed by streaming video.

BOLT is now available for free to anyone as part of its public beta test. To download BOLT visit http://boltbrowser.com.

Visit Bitstream at CTIA April 1-3, 2009 in booth 6250.

About BOLT:
The BOLT mobile browser, compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones, offers unrivaled speed and desktop-style web browsing including the ability to stream video. A patented split-screen viewing and intuitive keystroke shortcuts make navigating web pages simple. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream:
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company focused on bringing unique software products to a wide variety of markets. The company’s core software products include award-winning fonts and font rendering software, mobile browsing and variable data publishing and web-to-print software for personalized marketing. For more information about Bitstream please visit www.bitstream.com.