In its continuous effort to improve life for consumers, the Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) (NYSE: PG) is partnering with mobeam inc. to bring the first-ever fully mobile couponing system to market. The innovation, created by mobeam of California, makes electronic coupons presented on a phone or other mobile device scannable, so shoppers need only their phones/handhelds, not a stack of coupons, at check out.

Today, couponing represents a growing $3.7 billion segment of the consumer packaged goods (CPG) market in North America, with more than 300 billion coupons distributed every year and redemption on the increase as consumers strive for greater value and savings. And while smartphones are supporting users and simplifying life in a host of new ways, until now, phone couponing has not been an option because barcodes displayed on mobile phone screens are invisible to commonly used in-store laser scanners.

Mobeam technology converts – or mobeams – the barcode data into a beam of light that can be read by barcode scanners already found at store checkout counters. No additional point of sale (POS) equipment is needed.

“As impossible as it seems, even to technologists in the mobile industry, a vividly displayed barcode cannot be read by the typical barcode scanner,” said Nick Holland, senior analyst with Yankee Group. “The inability for a red laser scanner to read information displayed on a smartphone is not a small problem. This limiting factor is stalling important innovation as the retail industry is stuck waiting for next generation mobile technology to go mainstream. The mobeam beaming solution eloquently fixes this problem, enabling current generation mobile devices to interface with legacy red laser barcode scanners.”

P&G, one of the world’s leading coupon distributors, developed a partnership with mobeam through P&G’s open innovation Connect+Develop program, designed to bring leading innovation into P&G and share P&G innovation with others.

The P&G and mobeam partnership is aimed at exploring and testing a new, highly efficient method for consumers to redeem – and retailers to accept – coupons at the point of sale.

“Our vision with P&G is for the mobeam technology to be used and leveraged broadly by many leading CPG companies, with P&G and other key consumer goods partners as first adopters,” said mobeam CEO Christopher Sellers.

The next step in the partnership is to work with the mobile communications industry to add the mobeam application into handheld phones and then to test the application and process with shoppers and selected retailers.

“We are excited about the potential for this new technology and our partnership with mobeam to make shopping simpler and faster for consumers. Couponing is a great way for shoppers to try new products or save on the trusted brands their families have come to love. If that can be easier, faster and less costly for shoppers and retailers, we want to help bring it to life,” said Jeff Weedman, vice president of P&G Global Business Development.

Mobeam is working with handset manufacturers to engineer its light based communications (LBC) technology into new lines of handsets. P&G, mobeam and other partners expect to test the technology in market in 2012.

A mobeam-enabled couponing service would provide significant benefit to key stakeholders:

CONSUMERS:

Consumers would be able to collect and manage coupons received electronically and redeem them from their phones at the point of sale. Up to now, coupons received electronically either had to be printed to be redeemed, downloaded to a loyalty card or a checkout clerk would have to manually key in a coupon code. Not only will a shopper using the mobeam technology benefit, so will all the shoppers standing behind her in line.

RETAILERS:

The service aims to enable North American retailers to accelerate adoption of mobile coupons without hardware changes at POS. Because coupons will be submitted digitally, mobile coupons would increase efficiency and reduce costs.

CPG COMPANIES:

Digital coupons provide substantially deeper analytic capabilities, allowing better measurement of campaign effectiveness, as well as efficiencies in distribution, purchase validation and processing.

About mobeam
Mobeam, inc. is transforming mobile commerce with its unique and patented light based communications technology. Overcoming the technical barrier preventing mobile phones from interacting with laser scanners at checkout, mobeam’s technology provides universal access at point of sale (POS), enabling the transmission of coupons, gift cards, tickets and other barcode data at retailers worldwide. Mobeam’s technology powers new capabilities for existing mobile phone designs, and requires no changes to retailer POS infrastructure. Mobeam is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information visit www.mobeam.com.

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mobeam, inc. (www.mobeam.com) announced today that it has closed a $4.9 million Series A venture round, receiving funding from yet2Ventures, Samsung Ventures and Mitsui, together with other independent investors. mobeam’s patented technology overcomes the technical barrier preventing mobile phones from interacting with the laser scanners used at retail locations around the world. Funds from this multimillion dollar funding round will be used to establish mobeam’s light based communications (LBC) technology as a new industry standard allowing mobile phones to interact with point of sale (POS) technology. mobeam is also using these new funds to accelerate business development efforts with major consumer and retail brands for mobile couponing and other broad mobile commerce initiatives.

mobeam Inc. is transforming mobile commerce with its unique and patented light based communications technology. mobeam technology takes barcodes, like those used on every item sold in retail stores and on billions of coupons each year, and converts them to a beam of light able to be read by every red laser barcode scanner already found at checkout in stores around the world. mobeam’s technology powers new capabilities for existing mobile phone designs, and requires no changes to retailer POS infrastructure.

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

• A table at Pepcom’s MobileFocus® media event – held Tuesday, October 11 from 7:00 to 10:00 P.M. at the Marriott Marquis and Marina, 333 West Harbor Drive, near the San Diego Convention Center. Press registration information for MobileFocus is available at http://www.pepcom.com.
• Online press kit available at http://mobeam.mobilitypr.com.
• Media availability of Chief Executive Officer, Chris Sellers, and Chief Operating Officer, Marcia Donner.

To receive news under embargo or arrange meetings with mobeam executives at CTIA Enterprise & Applications, contact mobeam media contacts who will also be on site at CTIA:

• All mobeam media contacts can be reached by email at mobeam@mobilitypr.com
• John Sidline: +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)
• Jessi McKain: +1-503-475-5277 (mobile, can receive text messages)

About mobeam

mobeam, inc. is transforming mobile commerce with its unique and patented light based communications technology. Overcoming the technical barrier preventing mobile phones from interacting with laser scanners at checkout, mobeam’s technology provides universal access at point of sale (POS), enabling the transmission of coupons, gift cards, tickets and other barcode data at retailers worldwide. mobeam’s technology powers new capabilities for existing mobile phone designs, and requires no changes to retailer POS infrastructure. mobeam is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information visit www.mobeam.com.

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Spendvision, a global provider of total transaction management solutions, has earned a Distinguished Honoree medal for the Best New Product or Service of the Year for Financial Services in the 2011 International Business Awards. The International Business Awards are the only global, all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in business. Honorees were selected from more than 3,000 entries received from organizations and individuals in more than 40 nations.

Spendvision’s Payables Financing module makes improving working capital and paying suppliers on time an attainable goal for large businesses with multiple supplier relationships to manage. As approved invoices are uploaded directly to the Spendvision platform, payment is authorised either immediately or on a date nominated by the customer, and credit is made available for the supplier to withdraw from the purchasing card via a merchant terminal at the agreed time. On the buyer’s side, the payment transaction is automatically matched to the invoice on the Spendvision platform and ready to be coded or extracted to the finance system.

“The Payables Financing module of the Spendvision Platform allows for the timely and accurate payment of invoices from suppliers. With the introduction of this solution, businesses not only reap the benefits of improved supplier relationships but also improved cash flow,” said Shane Bruhns, COO of Spendvision. “Being named a distinguished honoree in the esteemed IBA award program for the second year in a row is further validation of our success and highlights our ongoing dedication to helping our customers achieve their business goals with the Spendvision platform.”

This is the latest award for Spendvision, who most recently won a coveted Expense Management Solutions Provider of the Year Award in the prestigious BTTB Travel Management Awards, which were announced at the BTTB Australia 2011 conference, Australasia’s leading business travel event.

Organisations all over the world are eligible to compete in The International Business Awards, and can enter in any of more than 40 categories from Company of the Year and Best New Product of the Year to Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year and Executive of the Year.

“Entries to The International Business Awards grew by more than 80% this year, and that illustrates the increasing importance of the IBAs worldwide,” said Michael Gallagher, president of the Stevie Awards, presenters of the IBAs. “We congratulate all of the honorees, and we look forward to recognizing them for their achievements at our gala event in Abu Dhabi on 11 October.”

Complete lists of honorees and other details are available at www.stevieawards.com/iba.

Details on the Spendvision Payables Financing module can be found at www.spendvision.com/spendvision-platform/modules/payments.

About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.

Location hosting patron for The 2011 International Business Awards is the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the United Arab Emirates. Premier sponsors include IBM Netezza and Smart Reader® Worldwide. The Korea Business Communicators Association is the national sponsor for South Korea. Localization sponsor of the 2011 Stevie Awards is SDL. Location hosting supporters of the 2011 IBAs include Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development, Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce & Industries, Dana Gas, the Gemological Institute of America and The International Business Times.

About Spendvision
Spendvision is a leading innovator of transaction management solutions. Through just one technology platform Spendvision delivers more effective purchasing that increases business profitability improves decision making and delivers greater control and compliance. All this across the broadest range of transactions from simple cash, card, online travel bookings and telecoms right through to interactive coding, requisitions and dynamically funded accounts.

Spendvision is headquartered in the UK with offices in the US, Australia, New Zealand and Japan and works with leading customers and partners around the world. The Spendvision solution is available direct to businesses and through partners across the banking, telecoms and travel sectors that provide the solution to their customers in their own brand. www.spendvision.com

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Spendvision, a global provider of total transaction management solutions, today announced the availability of its new eMoney module, which allows businesses to capture, manage and report on purchases made using Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.  The module will enable eMoney transactions to be integrated with all other types of spend, making it easier for staff to record all expenses, irrespective of the payment method used, ultimately affording businesses greater insight into what employees are spending.

Momentum is growing for services that enable consumers to purchase low value items by tapping their mobile phone or a pre-paid card against a reader at the checkout.  Indeed, Juniper Research recently predicted that global NFC mobile contactless payment transactions will reach nearly $50 billion worldwide by 2014.  However, as more employees start buying goods and services in this way, enterprises are faced with significant challenges as they attempt to incorporate digital cash into the overall picture of corporate spend.

“NFC is hugely topical at the moment, and our new eMoney module allows these transactions to be dealt with in exactly the same way as any other business expense that may traditionally have been made with credit card or cash,” said Shane Bruhns, COO of Spendvision.  “Employees can simply manage transactions from their pre-paid card or device alongside other expenses on a single platform that can be accessed anywhere and anytime.  This eliminates the need to manually enter details of the transaction, improving accuracy and making the process much quicker and easier for employees and finance teams.”

Spendvision’s new module is available worldwide, with the company expecting initial uptake to be most significant in Japan, where the use of NFC is more advanced.

“In Japan, eWallets and digital cash have been around for years and take up is high as a result of the integration with the travel network,” continued Bruhns.  “The convenience of simply tapping a device against a reader to make a payment is ideal, which is why a third of the population use emoney and transactions account for more than 1.25 trillion yen. Payments made with digital cash are commonly expensed by employees, and we believe this will soon be the case in other areas of the world.  As the only global provider of a solution capable of managing eMoney expenses across any currency, language and territory, we are well positioned to capitalise on our knowledge in managing these kinds of transactions and apply it elsewhere.”

The new eMoney module will also help businesses to manage the split between private and business spending.  With the line between work and personal spend blurring, having a single mobile device or eMoney card is becoming the norm and it is vital that businesses are able to easily identify who needs to pay for what.  Spendvision facilitates this by enabling employees to select which transactions are business-related on their card or device.

“As employees increasingly begin to use ‘wave and pay’ technology to pay for anything from transport fares to newspapers, from refreshments to stationary supplies, businesses will need to find a way of incorporating these payments into the expenses mix,” continued Bruhns.  “With so many low value transactions to be accounted for, the key to integrating them with other types of expense is to provide employees with a simple, quick way to log and manage all their payments, including eMoney. That’s exactly what our new module does.”

The eMoney module is available as an ‘opt-in’ upgrade to the Spendvision platform, a secure Software as a Service (SaaS) application, meaning that companies do not have to invest in, install or maintain any hardware or software.  The module can be configured to work with any processor of eMoney.

About Spendvision
Spendvision is a leading innovator of transaction management solutions. Through just one technology platform Spendvision delivers more effective purchasing that increases business profitability, improves decision making and delivers greater control and compliance. All this across the broadest range of transactions from simple cash, card, online travel bookings and telecoms right through to interactive coding, requisitions and dynamically funded accounts.

Spendvision is headquartered in the UK with offices in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore and works with leading customers and partners around the world. The Spendvision solution is available direct to businesses and through partners across the banking, telecoms and travel sectors that provide the solution to their customers in their own brand. www.spendvision.com

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

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

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

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

Key features of GadgetTrak Mobile Security 3 include:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 Enterprise & Applications in San Francisco, California, October 6 to 8 in booth 129. 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 HTML5 and flash streaming video support, widget support, social networking integration, in-line text editing, tabbed browsing 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 CTIA and is providing the following resources for media:

• Online press kit available at http://bitstream.mobilitypr.com.
• Availability of President and CEO Anna Magliocco-Chagnon and Vice President of Research and Development Sampo Kaasila for media interviews.
• Follow BOLT on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/boltbrowser

To receive news under embargo or arrange meetings with Bitstream executives at CTIA Enterprise & Applications in San Francisco, contact Bitstream media contacts:

• John Sidline: +1 503 989 5474 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• Melissa Burns: +1 208 946 4849 (mobile, can receive text messages)
• All Bitstream media contacts can be reached by email at bitstream@mobilitypr.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.

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 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.

Just in time for the holiday season, Talkster is offering the first 10,000 people who sign up at Talkster.com $5 in free calling credit. To participate, visit www.Talkster.com, and sign up before it’s too late. Callers should use the promo code “TALKSTER” to get their $5 in free calling credit.

With $5 in free calling credits, people can speak more than 2 hours to India, more than 4 hours to China and 5 hours to Mexico (time based on calling rates from the United States).

Under this promotion, callers get access to 50 countries with the lowest calling rates in the industry. Current Free World Dialing customers will enjoy access to new calling areas through this partnership, including Brazil, Japan, South Africa, and Pakistan.

“Talkster understands the holidays are the time of year when connecting with friends and family, especially those away from home, is important to all of us,” said James Wanless, COO of Talkster. “This special holiday offer gives our customers even more to celebrate. With international calling rates as little as .08 cents a minute to call places like Thailand, we are making the whole world that much closer. People can talk for as long as they want without worrying about being hit with a huge phone bill.”

For more information visit Talkster at www.Talkster.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.