Mixed Signals, the leading provider of digital content monitoring solutions, today announced that its Sentry® and Medius™ digital content monitoring solutions are being used by Cablevision du Nord, a Canadian cable television operator based in Québec, to ensure that subscribers enjoy the best possible viewing experience. Cablevision is the largest cable operator in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Québec, providing cable television and high speed Internet to tens of thousands of subscribers in 50 municipalities throughout the province. Cablevision is the latest cable operator to deploy Sentry, joining nine of the top 10 U.S. operators and three of the top five Canadian operators.

Cablevision chose Mixed Signals Sentry for its ability to comprehensively monitor their digital video network and catch any potential service-affecting issues. Sentry’s unique ability to identify and diagnose errors enables Cablevision to quickly repair errors, thus ensuring viewers enjoy an optimal Quality of Experience (QoE) and service uptime.  Sentry utilizes advanced deep packet inspection technologies to continually dive deep into all the video programs flowing through a network to spot problems at the IP and MPEG layers, leaving no error undetected. Sentry’s ability to detect and localize errors quickly, also enables service providers to significantly reduce their operational expenses as technicians can immediately make repairs, rather than spending time tracking down the root cause of errors.

“To deliver the best possible viewing experience for our subscribers, we knew we needed to keep a closer eye on our video network and proactively spot any errors,” said Mr. John Colton, General Manager for Cablevision du Nord.  “Mixed Signals’ monitoring tools enable us to effectively catch and repair errors in our network before they affect our subscribers, allowing us to offer the best quality of experience to our customers.”

Cablevision has installed Sentry in its headend in Val-d’Or, Québec where it monitors their entire digital programming line-up, including all high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) programs.  Cablevision will expand its deployments of Sentry, with the next installation planned for its headend in Rouyn-Noranda, Québec.

In combination with Sentry, Cablevision is also using Mixed Signals’ Medius remote monitoring and management system to communicate with all the Sentrys from a central location.  Sentry and Medius together provide operators with the industry’s most integrated, comprehensive and network-wide solution for ensuring an optimal QoE for their subscribers.

“Cablevision du Nord has proven its dedication to ensuring the highest possible quality of experience to its customers by using Mixed Signals to monitor its video network,” said Mr. Eric Conley, CEO of Mixed Signals.  “Sentry’s ability to proactively detect errors before they affect the subscriber is second to none and provides Cablevision du Nord with the tools they need to keep their subscribers loyal and happy.”

About Mixed Signals
Mixed Signals provides the most comprehensive and scalable digital content monitoring solutions from the source to the edge including digital services, transport streams, ad insertion, switched digital video, video on demand and interactive content. Mixed Signals’ innovative products offer unparalleled visibility into video streams and digital services in real time. The Company’s products are known for their ease of use and deliver critical intelligence about overall network transport stream behavior, trending analyses, and actionable alerts when anomalies are detected. More than any other product on the market today, Mixed Signals monitoring solutions enable cable and satellite television operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and IPTV providers to simplify deployments of new services and applications, and to future-proof and maximize the return on the investment in their digital networks.

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Mixed Signals, the leading provider of digital content monitoring solutions, today announced that it has added significant new reporting and analysis features to its award-winning Sentry® digital content monitoring solution that enable video service providers to track, isolate and repair even the most complex video and audio errors in their programming. Mixed Signals is demonstrating Sentry’s new Reason Codes capability in its booth (714) at this week’s Canadian Summit of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) in Toronto.

Reason Codes are an enhancement to Mixed Signals’ state-of-the-art Audio and Video QoE Scoring System – which accurately gauges the severity of errors – and provide added detail to show the causes of impairment behind a particular quality of experience (QoE) score. The combination of Reason Codes together with Sentry’s unprecedented ability to detect video and audio quality errors gives service providers a more complete picture of particularly complex and recurring QoE issues, which enables more accurate and quicker diagnoses and repairs.

“We continue to listen to our customers to provide the capabilities and tools they need to zero-in on even the most complex video and audio quality errors,” said Eric Conley, CEO of Mixed Signals. “Sentry’s new Reason Codes are the latest example of our commitment to adding new features and functionality to Sentry to keep it the most advanced and comprehensive solution for ensuring that service providers deliver their programming with best possible quality while keeping operational costs low.”

Sentry’s Reason Codes will be available in an upcoming software update that will support already deployed Sentrys and will come standard with new models.

About Sentry

Mixed Signals’ award-winning Sentry is a comprehensive and scalable monitoring solution that uniquely enables video service providers to better manage their networks to deliver services with optimum quality and to reduce their operational expenses. Sentry identifies anomalies in the network at the IP and MPEG layers, as well as in QoE, identifying hundreds of issues, including video freeze, video black and the loss of audio, which represent the bulk of trouble calls from subscribers.  Sentry’s single rack unit (RU) appliance ensures easy deployment in even the smallest hubs and its ability to be remotely managed eliminates the need for technicians to service Sentrys installed in remote locations.

Sentry is in widespread use with top tier video service providers, including the top nine U.S cable operators, three of the top five Canadian cable operators and other providers all over the globe.

Complementing its sales success, Sentry’s advanced capabilities and market-leading performance have been recognized with seven industry awards.

About Mixed Signals
Mixed Signals provides the most comprehensive and scalable digital content monitoring solutions from the source to the edge including digital services, transport streams, ad insertion, switched digital video, video on demand and interactive content. Mixed Signals’ innovative products offer unparalleled visibility into video streams and digital services in real time. The Company’s products are known for their ease of use and deliver critical intelligence about overall network transport stream behavior, trending analyses, and actionable alerts when anomalies are detected. More than any other product on the market today, Mixed Signals monitoring solutions enable cable and satellite television operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and IPTV providers to simplify deployments of new services and applications, and to future-proof and maximize the return on the investment in their digital networks.

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A Vesta Corporation (http://www.trustvesta.com), uma pioneira e líder global em soluções de pagamento eletrônico, anunciou hoje o lançamento do Prepaid.com (http://www.prepaid.com), um portal de recarga que permite aos clientes móveis enviarem airtime (tempo de conexão) para amigos e parentes no mundo todo. O portal oferece recarga imediata e sem taxa para contas telefônicas móveis pré-pagas e permite que expatriados e imigrantes possam manter fortes laços familiares, independente da distância e de fronteiras.

O Prepaid.com fornece aos operadores móveis uma solução plug and play que suporta recarga tanto no próprio país como em países diferentes para os serviços móveis, tais como airtime pré-pago, assinaturas e banda larga móvel. O novo portal ajuda os operadores móveis a capitalizarem nos bilhões de pagamentos feitos para outros países anualmente e inclui uma grande variedade de recursos fáceis de serem usados que mostraram aumentar o valor por toda a vida dos clientes.

“Ao usarem o Prepaid.com, os consumidores agora têm uma maneira conveniente de enviarem airtime para parentes e amigos em outros países”, disse Chris Parsons, diretor de Marketing da Vesta. “Trabalhar com a Vesta aumenta as opções de pagamento para os operadores e garante aos clientes do mundo todo a segurança e privacidade que requerem”.

Tendo processado centenas de milhões de transações, a Vesta Corporation ganhou a reputação de fornecer soluções de pagamento inovadoras e seguras para empresas de telecomunicações do mundo todo e seus clientes. O processo de recarga com a marca do operador do Prepaid.com mantém os mais altos padrões de segurança de pagamento e dados da indústria e pode ser integrado facilmente com a infra-estrutura do operador para maior rapidez de comercialização.

Para adquirir airtime no www.prepaid.com, um visitante simplesmente seleciona o país e operador, coloca o número do telefone que gostaria de fazer a recarga e em seguida os seus detalhes sobre pagamento. O Prepaid.com aceita uma grande variedade de dispositivos de pagamento, incluindo os principais cartões de crédito e débito do mercado, cartões de crédito emitidos internacionalmente e cartões de débito pré-pagos da marca Visa ou MasterCard.

Sem inscrição complicada, senhas ou cartões de refil necessários, o processo de recarga é rápido, confiável e seguro. O Prepaid.com não cobre taxas de serviços ou acréscimos e imediatamente aplica o airtime à conta presenteada. O portal oferece suporte online e ao vivo com agentes atendendo 24×7 e os clientes podem criar uma conta para, com segurança, armazenar detalhes sobre pagamentos e números de telefones receptores, revisar história dos pagamentos e imprimir recibos das transações.

Os consumidores podem realizar recarga apenas uma vez ou agendar pagamentos presentes periódicos para garantir que os seus amigos e parentes possam sempre se comunicar com eles. Segundo disse um consumidor, “Fico mais tranquilo sabendo que a minha mãe pode me chamar a qualquer hora, pois agendo recargas para o telefone dela mensalmente”. Futuros aperfeiçoamentos permitirão aos assinantes enviar pedidos de presentes e recargas através de sites de mídia social e SMS.

O Prepaid.com está lançando com a Telefonica Movistar, Iusacell e Unefon no México, e está também ativamente investigando parcerias com operadores móveis em outras geografias onde o envio de presentes para outros países é comum, incluindo a América Latina, o Caribe, a Europa, Sudeste da Ásia, China e Índia.

Sobre a Vesta Corporation
O Prepaid.com pertence e é operado pela Vesta Corporation, provedora de uma plataforma de pagamento totalmente gerenciada que oferece aos operadores móveis a maneira mais eficiente e econômica de fornecerem uma vasta gama de serviços diretos com a marca do operador (através do telefone, Internet, SMS, USSD, aplicativo de handset e cobrança recorrente). Com a sua matriz localizada em Portland, Oregon, e operações na Europa e China, a Vesta Corporation é uma pioneira e líder mundial em soluções de pagamento eletrônico desde 1995. A Vesta estabeleceu relacionamentos de longo prazo e de sucesso com os maiores operadores internacionais, incluindo a AT&T, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, China Unicom, Cricket Communications, Eircom, Sprint, Telia, Tele2, Telefonica, T-Mobile, Verizon e Vodafone, entre outros.

Para informações adicionais sobre a Vesta Corporation, favor acessar http://www.trustvesta.com. Para informações adicionais sobre o portal de pagamento do consumidor da Vesta, favor acessar http://www.prepaid.com.

Vesta Corporation (http://www.trustvesta.com), un pionero y líder mundial en soluciones de pagos electrónicos, anunció hoy el lanzamiento de Prepaid.com (http://www.prepaid.com), un portal de recarga que facilita a los usuarios móviles enviar tiempo aire a sus amigos y familiares en todo el mundo. El portal ofrece recarga inmediata sin cobro para cuentas prepagadas de teléfonos móviles y permite a expatriados e inmigrantes mantener fuertes lazos familiares, independientemente de la distancia y las fronteras.

Prepaid.com ofrece a los operadores móviles una solución plug and play (conectar y lista para operar) que soporta recargas dentro del país y entre fronteras para servicios móviles tales como tiempo aire prepagado, suscripciones y banda ancha móvil. El nuevo portal ayuda a los operadores móviles a capitalizar sobre los miles de millones de pagos transfronterizos enviados anualmente, e incluye una variedad de funciones fáciles de usar que han demostrado incrementar el valor perdurable de los consumidores.

“Gracias a Prepaid.com, los consumidores ahora tienen una medio conveniente para enviar tiempo aire a familiares y amigos en otros países”, dijo Chris Parsons, director de mercadeo de Vesta. “Trabajar con Vesta expande las opciones de pago para los operadores y garantiza a los compradores la seguridad y privacidad que exigen”.

Después de procesar cientos de millones de transacciones, Vesta Corporation ha adquirido una reputación de ofrecer soluciones de pagos innovadoras y seguras para las empresas de telecomunicaciones en todo el mundo y sus clientes. El proceso de recarga de Prepaid.com con la marca del operador mantiene los más altos estándares de seguridad de datos y pagos en la industria y se integra fácilmente con la infraestructura de un operador para lograr un rápido posicionamiento en el mercado.

Para comprar tiempo aire en www.prepaid.com, un visitante simplemente selecciona el país y el operador e ingresa el número de teléfono que desea recargar seguido de los detalles de pago. Prepaid.com acepta una vasta variedad de métodos de pago incluyendo las principales tarjetas de crédito y débito, tarjetas de crédito emitidas internacionalmente y tarjetas de débito prepagadas exclusivas de Visa o MasterCard.

Sin requisitos de registro complicados, PINs o tarjetas de recarga, el proceso es fácil, confiable y seguro. Prepaid.com no cobra cargos por servicios o sobrecargos y aplica el tiempo aire inmediatamente a la cuenta beneficiada. El portal ofrece asistencia para las transacciones online y con agentes en vivo, 24 horas al día, 7 días a la semana, y los compradores pueden crear una cuenta para guardar con seguridad los detalles del pago y los números de teléfono de los beneficiarios, revisar la historia de pagos e imprimir recibos de la transacción.

Los consumidores pueden realizar una recarga una sola vez o programar pagos de regalo recurrentes para asegurar que sus amigos y familiares siempre puedan mantenerse en contacto, como uno de los consumidores dijo, “Tengo la tranquilidad de saber que mi madre me puede llamar en cualquier momento gracias a que pude programar recargas fijas para su teléfono todos los meses”. Futuras mejoras permitirán a los abonados enviar solicitudes de regalo y recarga a través de los sitios de medios sociales y SMS.

Prepaid.com se lanza con Telefónica Movistar, Iusacell y Unefon en México, e investiga activamente asociaciones con operadores móviles en otras regiones donde los regalos entre fronteras son comunes, incluyendo, América Latina, el Caribe, Europa, Asia Sudeste, Asia, China e India.

Acerca de Vesta Corporation
Prepaid.com es un portal de propiedad y operado por Vesta Corporation, proveedor de una plataforma de pagos de gestión completa diseñada para ofrecer a los operadores móviles el medio más eficaz y rentable para ofrecer servicios de recarga directa con la marca del operador (vía teléfono, Web, SMS, USSD, aplicación de auricular y cargo recurrente). Vesta Corporation, con sede en Portland, Oregon, con operaciones en Europa y China, es un pionero y líder mundial en soluciones de pagos desde 1995. Vesta ha establecido asociaciones duraderas y de gran éxito con operadores líderes internacionales incluyendo AT&T, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, China Unicom, Cricket Communications, Eircom, Sprint, Telia, Tele2, Telefónica, T-Mobile, Verizon y Vodafone, entre otros.

Para más información acerca de Vesta Corporation, visite http://www.trustvesta.com. Para más información acerca del portal de pagos del consumidor de Vesta, visite, http://www.prepaid.com.

Vesta CorporationVesta Corporation (http://www.trustvesta.com), a global pioneer and leader in electronic payment solutions, today announced the launch of Prepaid.com (http://www.prepaid.com), a recharge portal that allows mobile customers to send airtime to friends and family worldwide. The portal features immediate, no-fee recharging for prepaid mobile phone accounts and allows expatriates and immigrants to maintain strong family ties, regardless of distance and borders.

Prepaid.com provides mobile operators with a plug and play solution that supports in-country and cross-border recharge for mobile services such as prepaid airtime, subscriptions, and mobile broadband. The new portal helps mobile operators capitalize on the billions of cross-border payments sent annually, and includes a variety of consumer-friendly features that have been shown to increase the lifetime value of customers.

“By using Prepaid.com, consumers now have a convenient way to send airtime to family and friends in other countries,” said Chris Parsons, chief marketing officer of Vesta. “Working with Vesta expands payment options for operators and assures purchasers worldwide the security and privacy they demand.”

Having processed hundreds of millions of transactions, Vesta Corporation has earned a reputation for delivering innovative and secure payment solutions to telecom companies worldwide and their customers. Prepaid.com’s operator-branded recharge process maintains the highest payment and data security standards in the industry, and integrates easily with an operator’s infrastructure for fast time to market.

To purchase airtime at www.prepaid.com, a visitor simply selects the country and operator, and enters the phone number they would like to recharge followed by their payment details. Prepaid.com accepts a wide variety of payment devices including major credit and debit cards, internationally issued credit cards, and Visa or MasterCard signature prepaid debit cards.

With no cumbersome registration, PINs or refill cards required, the recharge process is fast, reliable and secure. Prepaid.com does not charge service fees or surcharges, and immediately applies airtime to the gifted account. The portal features 24×7 online and live-agent transaction support, and purchasers can create an account to securely store payment details and recipient phone numbers, review payment history, and print transaction receipts.

Consumers can perform a one-time recharge or schedule recurring gift payments to ensure that their friends and family can always be in touch. As one consumer stated, “I have peace of mind knowing that my mother can call me anytime because I set up recharges for her phone every month.” Future enhancements will allow subscribers to send gift requests and recharges via social media sites and SMS.

Prepaid.com is launching with Telefonica Movistar, Iusacell and Unefon in Mexico, and is actively investigating partnerships with mobile operators in other geographies where cross-border gifting is common, including Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Southeast Asia, China, and India.

About Vesta Corporation
Prepaid.com is owned and operated by Vesta Corporation, provider of a fully managed payment platform that offers mobile operators the most efficient and cost-effective way to provide operator-branded direct top-up services (via phone, Web, SMS, USSD, handset application, and recurring charge). Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with operations in Europe and China, Vesta Corporation, has been a pioneer and worldwide leader in electronic payment solutions since 1995. Vesta has established long-term, successful relationships with leading international operators including AT&T, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, China Unicom, Cricket Communications, Eircom, Sprint, Telia, Tele2, Telefonica, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Vodafone, among others.

For more information about Vesta Corporation, visit http://www.trustvesta.com. For more information about Vesta’s consumer payment portal, visit http://www.prepaid.com.

Mixed Signals, the leading provider of digital content monitoring solutions, announced today that Network Products Guide, the industry’s leading information technology research and advisory guide has named Mixed Signals’ Sentry® a winner of the 2010 Product Innovation Awards for the second year in a row.  This annually venerated award recognizes and honors vendors, large and small, from all over the world with innovative and groundbreaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.

For the second year running Sentry won the ‘Test, Measurement and Monitoring’ category.  This win continues Sentry’s 2009 winning streak in which it received five awards recognizing its advanced capabilities that enable video service providers to detect and diagnose video and audio errors that can ruin viewers’ quality of experience (QoE).

“Innovation is not just about new products alone,” says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief at Network Products Guide. “To succeed companies need to see innovation not as a onetime errand but as something that has to be continuously evolved and improved upon over and over again. This requires putting greater focus on customer needs and making innovation the center of the company’s way of developing better solutions. Innovative products such as Sentry are bringing crucial improvements in the field of digital content monitoring.”

Complementing its awards successes, Mixed Signals achieved a stellar 2009 with a year-over-year revenue increase of 115 percent in a difficult economy.  Mixed Signals’ customer base has grown to include the top 9 U.S cable operators, 3 of the top 5 Canadian operators in addition to key customers all over the globe.

“Our ongoing commitment to product innovation and introducing cutting edge features and capabilities to our products is why they continually receive industry accolades like the Network Products Guide Innovation Award in back-to-back years,” said Eric Conley, CEO of Mixed Signals.  “We continue to build the best products in the space, which adds tremendous value to our customers every day.  Our success is ultimately reflective of our ability to improve the success of our customers.”

Mixed Signals’ products make up the industry’s most comprehensive content monitoring solution, giving video service providers unparalleled visibility into network anomalies at the IP and MPEG layers to quickly identify and repair even the most complex video and audio errors.  Mixed Signals released several new products in 2009, which enable service providers to achieve significant cost reductions and ensure their viewers enjoy an optimal QoE.

About Network Products Guide Awards

As industry’s leading technology research and advisory guide, Network Products Guide from Silicon Valley plays a vital role in keeping decision makers and end-users informed of the choices they can make in all areas of information technology. You will discover a wealth of information and tools in this guide including the best products and services, roadmaps, industry directions, technology advancements and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent technology decisions impacting business and personal goals. The guide follows conscientious research methodologies developed and enhanced by industry experts. To learn more, visit www.networkproductsguide.com

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Mixed Signals provides the most comprehensive and scalable digital content monitoring solutions from the source to the edge including digital services, transport streams, ad insertion, switched digital video, video on demand and interactive content. Mixed Signals’ innovative products offer unparalleled visibility into video streams and digital services in real time. The Company’s products are known for their ease of use and deliver critical intelligence about overall network transport stream behavior, trending analyses, and actionable alerts when anomalies are detected. More than any other product on the market today, Mixed Signals monitoring solutions enable cable and satellite television operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and IPTV providers to simplify deployments of new services and applications, and to future-proof and maximize the return on the investment in their digital networks.

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Компания Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) сегодня анонсировала новую версию мобильного браузера BOLT(TM), который теперь доступен и с интерфейсом пользователя на русском языке. BOLT 1.7 поддерживает русский язык, самый географически распространенный язык в Евразии, наиболее распространенный из славянских языков и родной язык для наибольшего числа жителей Европы. Кроме того, улучшены характеристики потокового видео и поддерживаются виджеты для бесплатного мобильного браузера. С июня прошлого года мобильный браузер BOLT воспроизводит кириллические шрифты на веб-сайтах, а теперь пользователи могут также сделать русский язык языком по умолчанию интерфейса пользователя. Благодаря новым функциям и улучшениям использование быстрого как молния, бескомпромиссного браузера для телефонов всех типов BOLT стало еще совершеннее и проще для пользователей BOLT по всему миру.

К первой годовщине BOLT число пользователей этого мобильного браузера превысило 4 миллиона, просмотрено более 135 миллионов минут потокового видео (эквивалентно 256 годам), открыто более 512 миллионов страниц (порядка 3 миллионов страниц в день) и загружено более 132 терабайт данных.

BOLT является единственным мобильным браузером для всех типов мобильных телефонов, поддерживающим просмотр потокового видео с многочисленных сайтов, таких как RuTube, YouTube, Yahoo, Google, MySpace и многих других. Теперь пользователи могут просматривать видео, размещенные на CNN и ESPN, а также вложенные YouTube видео на любом сайте.

BOLT отлично воспроизводит веб-страницы так же, как они выглядят в браузере настольного компьютера, превосходя конкурирующие мобильные браузеры и набрав великолепные 100 процентов по тесту Web Standards Project Acid3. Тест Acid3, который был создан, чтобы помочь производителям браузеров обеспечить надлежащую поддержку веб-стандартов в своих продуктах, тестирует динамические веб-приложения Web 2.0 и визуальное воспроизведение, включая веб-шрифты. Созданный на основе J2ME и способный функционировать на телефонах всех типов, BOLT может работать примерно на 3 миллиардах телефонов, уже находящихся в использовании. Созданная специально для смартфонов BlackBerry версия BOLT поддерживает все функции BOLT, а также горячие клавиши по умолчанию и оптимизации BlackBerry.

Уникальные возможности BOLT включают:

• Полное отображение веб-сайтов так, как они выглядят на настольных компьютерах
• Большая скорость загрузки страниц
• Потоковое видео с популярных видеосервисов, таких как RuTube и YouTube
• Сжатие данных до степени 24:1
• Копирование и вставка текста
• Выгрузка видео- и фотофайлов на веб-сайты прямо из браузера
• Единственный распространенный браузер на основе WebKit с облачной обработкой данных
• Шесть уровней увеличения

Новые функции BOLT 1.7 также включают:

Виджеты
Хотя BOLT уже демонстрирует основанные на интернет-технологии приложения, написанные на Ajax, Javascript и других языках интернет-программирования, такие как популярная Facebook-игра Mafia Wars и Google Docs, в BOLT 1.7 добавлена функциональность виджетов. Сейчас, в бета-версии, виджеты BOLT позволяют пользователю устанавливать небольшие независимые веб-приложения, работающие непосредственно из BOLT. Благодаря тому, что эти виджеты устанавливаются прямо в BOLT, они загружаются и выполняются быстрее приложений на базе веб-сайтов, обеспечивая пользователям более широкий выбор утилит для их мобильных телефонов. Пользователи BOLT могут находить, выбирать и устанавливать определенные веб-приложения через галерею виджетов BOLT.

Виджеты BOLT пишутся как стандартные виджеты W3C (www.w3.org/TR/widgets/). Этот стандарт широко поддерживается в отрасли.

Интеграция Twitter
Теперь BOLT включает более легкий способ размещения твитов в Twitter. В BOLT 1.7 возможности Twitter встроены в сам браузер. Теперь пользователи могут размещать твиты прямо из BOLT во время веб-серфинга.

Учитывая тот факт, что некоторые находящиеся сейчас в использовании мобильные телефоны не могут поддерживать полноразмерные приложения, а некоторые провайдеры ограничивают размер загружаемых приложений, Bitstream также предлагает облегченную версию мобильного браузера BOLT, BOLT Lite(TM). BOLT Lite включает в себя все основные функции мобильного браузера BOLT, сохраняя богатую возможностями функциональность BOLT, лучшие в своем классе скорости загрузки и разметку страницы в стиле ПК в пакете меньшего размера, оптимизированном для устройств низкого уровня.

BOLT и BOLT Lite доступны для бесплатной загрузки на http://boltbrowser.com.

Информация о Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. занимается разработкой программных технологий и приложений для отраслей графического искусства и мобильной связи. Удостоенные наград шрифты и технологии шрифтов Bitstream позволяют производителям устройств и разработчикам технологий воспроизводить текст высочайшего качества на любом языке, любом устройстве и с любым разрешением. Торговая марка компании MyFonts является лидирующим мировым поставщиком шрифтов потребителям. Торговая марка Bitstream Pageflex позволяет маркетологам легко производить на заказ средства передачи информации в печатной форме, с помощью электронной почты и в режиме онлайн. Последним предложением компании является мобильный браузер BOLT, уже установленный миллионами пользователей по всему миру с момента его выхода в феврале 2009 г.

Чтобы получить дополнительную информацию, посетите www.bitstream.com.

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) anunció hoy día que se encuentra disponible una nueva versión del navegador móvil BOLT(TM) con una interfaz de usuario en español. El navegador móvil gratuito BOLT 1.7 brinda soporte en español, el segundo idioma más hablado del mundo por el número de personas que lo tienen como lengua materna, mejores prestaciones de streaming de video y soporte para widgets. Las nuevas prestaciones y mejoras del producto hacen que los usuarios de BOLT de todo el mundo puedan navegar a alta velocidad en cualquier tipo de teléfono.

Al cumplirse el primer aniversario de BOLT, el aclamado navegador móvil ha superado los cuatro millones de usuarios, ha transmitido continuamente más de 135 millones de minutos de video (equivalente a 256 años si se reproducen en cadena), ha servido más de 512 millones de páginas –un promedio de tres millones de páginas por día, y se descargaron más de 132 terabytes de datos.

BOLT es el único navegador para cualquier clase de teléfonos móviles que soporta el streaming de video de varios sitios para compartir videos como YouTube, Yahoo, Google, MySpace y muchos otros. Ahora los usuarios pueden ver videos posteados en CNN y ESPN, así como mirar videos de YouTube embebidos en cualquier sitio.

BOLT presenta las páginas Web exactamente como se verían en los navegadores de escritorio, superando a los navegadores móviles rivales al obtener una puntuación perfecta (100%) en la prueba Acid3 del Proyecto de Estándares Web. Acid3, creada con la finalidad de ayudar a los vendedores de navegadores a garantizar el soporte adecuado de los estándares Web en sus productos, prueba las aplicaciones dinámicas de Web 2.0 y la representación visual, incluso las fuentes Web. Construido en J2ME y capaz de funcionar en cualquier tipo de teléfono, BOLT se puede utilizar en unos 3.000 millones de teléfonos que ya se encuentran en el mercado. Una versión de BOLT creada especialmente para los BlackBerry incluye todas las funciones de BOLT, al igual que comandos directos y optimizaciones preestablecidos de BlackBerry.

Estas son las capacidades únicas de BOLT:

• Mostrar los sitios completos tal como aparecerían en las
  computadoras de escritorio
• Velocidades rápidas de carga de página
• Streaming de video desde servicios populares como YouTube
• Compresión de datos de hasta 24:1
• Copiar y pegar texto
• Subir archivos de video y fotos directamente a los sitios desde el
  navegador
• Único navegador con tecnología “computación en nube” basado en
  WebKit
• Seis niveles de aumento

Las nuevas características de BOLT 1.7 también comprenden:

Widgets

Aunque BOLT ya ejecuta aplicaciones Web escritas en Ajax, Javascript y en otros lenguajes de programación Web, tal como el popular juego Mafia Wars de Facebook y Google Docs, BOLT 1.7 agrega la funcionalidad de los widgets. Actualmente en la fase beta, los widgets de BOLT permiten que los usuarios instalen pequeñas aplicaciones Web autocontenidas que corren directamente desde dentro de BOLT. Debido a que estos widgets están instalados directamente dentro de BOLT, se cargan y ejecutan con más rapidez que las aplicaciones basadas en sitios Web, dándole a los usuarios una mayor variedad de utilidad para sus teléfonos móviles. Los usuarios de BOLT pueden descubrir, seleccionar e instalar aplicaciones Web específicas de la Galería de widgets de BOLT. Estos widgets están escritos como widgets de W3C estandarizados (www.w3.org/TR/widgets/), un estándar que cuenta con el amplio respaldo de la industria.

Integración en Twitter

BOLT incluye ahora una forma más sencilla de postear “tweets” en Twitter. BOLT 1.7 ha integrado las capacidades de Twitter en el propio navegador. Ahora los usuarios pueden postear “tweets” directamente desde BOLT al tiempo que navegan por Internet.

Dado que algunos teléfonos móviles actualmente en uso no soportan la aplicación completa y algunos proveedores de red limitan el tamaño de las descargas de aplicaciones, Bitstream ofrece también una versión ligera del navegador móvil BOLT, BOLT Lite(TM). BOLT Lite tiene todas las características esenciales del navegador BOLT, conservando la funcionalidad rica en prestaciones de BOLT, las velocidades de descarga más rápidas en su género y la distribución de página estilo.

BOLT y BOLT Lite están disponibles para su descarga gratuita en http://boltbrowser.com.

Acerca de Bitstream

Bitstream Inc. se dedica al desarrollo de tecnologías y aplicaciones de software para las industrias de arte gráfico y comunicaciones móviles. Las fuentes y las tecnologías de fuentes galardonadas de Bitstream posibilitan que los fabricantes de dispositivos y los desarrolladores de aplicaciones presenten el texto de la más alta calidad en cualquier idioma, en cualquier dispositivo y en cualquier resolución. La marca MyFonts de la empresa es el principal proveedor del mundo en lo que se refiere a fuentes para consumidores. La marca Pageflex de Bitstream permite que los comerciantes produzcan con facilidad comunicaciones personalizadas en forma impresa, por correo electrónico y en línea. La última oferta de la empresa es el navegador móvil BOLT, que ha sido instalado por millones de usuarios en todo el mundo desde su lanzamiento en febrero de 2009. Para obtener más información, visite www.bitstream.com.

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Exactly one year after its public debut, Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced a new version of the BOLT™ Mobile Browser, which makes the lightning fast uncompromised browsing experience for phones of all types even better with new features and enhancements. The 1.7 release of BOLT offers increased functionality and usability, with new features including direct Twitter integration, Spanish and Russian language support, an enhanced download manager, increased streaming video features and the ability to run widgets. Bitstream is showcasing BOLT 1.7 to OEMs and carriers at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 15 to February 18 in booth number 1A70.

As BOLT marks its first anniversary, the acclaimed mobile browser has surpassed 4 million users, streamed over 135 million minutes of video (equivalent to 256 years if played back to back), served more than 512 million pages – as many as 3 million pages per day, and downloaded more than 132 terabytes of data – an amount that’s double the size of the entire digital collection of the U.S. Library of Congress.

“The past year was both exciting and intense as BOLT’s developers learned what features were most important to its users, and how desired features would mesh with manufacturing trends in mobile handsets and the evolution of the Internet,” said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream. “Before we launched BOLT we knew that Bitstream engineers and developers built a remarkable foundation on which we could continue to evolve the BOLT mobile browser, and the positive support and constant feedback we received from a great many of our 4 million helped us prioritize the features and enhancements in each successive release. But as excited as we were for the first year of BOLT, the next year promises to be more dynamic as we plan to introduce features that took longer to engineer and we add more handset manufacturers to the roster of those preloading BOLT on mobile phones.”

International Localization
With BOLT being used by people in more than 100 countries, Bitstream has added language support so more users can use BOLT with a user interface in their own language. The 1.7 version of BOLT now includes options for English, Spanish and Russian languages.

Widgets
Although BOLT already runs web-based applications written in Ajax, Javascript and other Web programming languages, such as the popular Facebook game Mafia Wars and Google Docs, BOLT 1.7 is adding widget functionality. Now in beta, BOLT widgets allow users to install small self-contained Web applications that run directly from within BOLT. Because these widgets are installed directly within BOLT they load and execute faster than website-based applications, giving users a wider variety of utility for their mobile phones. BOLT users can discover, select and install specific Web apps through a BOLT Widget Gallery. BOLT’s widgets are written as standard W3C widgets (www.w3.org/TR/widgets/), a standard with broad industry support.

Twitter Integration
One of the new enhancements to BOLT is an easier way to post tweets to Twitter. BOLT 1.7 has integrated Twitter capabilities into the browser itself. Now users can post tweets directly from BOLT while they browse the Web.

Usability Enhancements
BOLT 1.7 now features keypad shortcuts that make zooming in and out of Web content as simple as a click of a button. Users can now scale text and images without having to change the zoom presets in their preferences.

BOLT is the only mobile browser for all types of mobile phones to support streaming video from multiple video sharing websites such as YouTube, Yahoo, Google, RuTube, MySpace and more. Now users can watch videos posted in CNN and ESPN, as well as watch embedded YouTube videos on any website.

For users on networks that support socket connections, BOLT v1.7 now offers automatic socket support resulting in a 15 percent speed increase for most users. Previous versions of BOLT offered socket support that had to be manually configured by the user.

BOLT 1.7 features an upgraded download manager that supports multiple simultaneous downloads as well as the ability to pause and restart an active download.

Milestones

BOLT was launched as a public beta on February 16, 2009, and has been widely acclaimed since then. Frequently named a “must have” download and consistently receiving rave product reviews, BOLT has achieved a number of important milestones, including:

• Outscoring competing mobile browsers by earning a perfect 100 percent on the Web Standards Project’s Acid3 test, meaning BOLT offers the most accurate website rendering
• Installed more than 4 million times in more than 100 countries
• Supporting thousands of different handset makes and models
• Streaming over 130 million minutes of video
• Serving 132 terabytes of data
• Selected by handset manufacturers in Europe and Asia to be the default browser preloaded on new lines of mobile phones

BOLT’s Unique Capabilities include:

• Best of breed page load speeds
• Most accurate page rendering
• Best of breed data compression
• Displays full websites just as they would appear on desktop computers
• Streams videos from popular video services such as YouTube
• Copy and paste text
• Uploads video and photo files directly to websites from browser
• Only major WebKit based cloud computing browser
• FOTA updates
• Six levels of magnification

Recognizing that some mobile phones currently in use cannot support the full size application and some network providers limit the size of application downloads, Bitstream also offers a light version of the BOLT mobile browser, BOLT LiteTM. BOLT Lite contains all the essential features of the BOLT mobile browser, retaining BOLT’s feature-rich functionality, best-of-breed download speeds and desktop PC-style page layout in a smaller package optimized for entry-level devices.

BOLT and BOLT Lite are both available for free download at http://boltbrowser.com.

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

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

Nuance Communications and Portland, Oregon-based Vesta Corporation, a global pioneer and leader in electronic payment solutions for wireless operators, today announced the partnership to co-promote and integrate Nuance’s Mobile Care application with Vesta’s Mobile Payment Platform, to deliver a comprehensive payment service to mobile operators worldwide.

This partnership will expand the on-device self-service capabilities of Nuance Mobile Care by enabling the subscribers of mobile operators to quickly and seamlessly make payments and handle other payment-related functions directly through their mobile handsets. Expanded functionality includes bill presentment and account balance, balance alerts, bill payment, prepaid top-up, payment history and enabling general account inquiries.

“At present, research indicates that 50 percent of customer care calls to mobile operators are payment related,” said Chris Parsons, chief marketing officer of Vesta Corporation. “Our partnership with Nuance will ensure that innovative and user friendly, end-to-end secure payment capabilities can be delivered directly from the handset. This will dramatically reduce the number of customer care calls operators contend with as well as reducing the costs associated with supporting customer care operations.”

By empowering subscribers to manage and process their own payment transactions, Nuance and Vesta are taking strides to eliminate wait times for customer service agents and reduce the number of queries being handled by the mobile operator’s customer care facilities, in turn driving down costs and improving customer service. Furthermore, Vesta’s technology fully complies with the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which is mandated by leading credit card issuers, to ensure that requirements for payment data security are met. Mobile operators will also benefit from full payment fraud indemnity enabled by Vesta’s detection and risk management capabilities.

As a result of this collaborative offering, mobile operators will now have the ability to provide a comprehensive and secure self-service experience to consumers via the mobile channel. Consumer research indicates that nearly a quarter of all mobile customers, and nearly a third of the youth market, prefer to pay through their handsets. Mobile consumers like the convenience and flexibility that mobile payments deliver.

“Our partnership with Vesta supports our strategic direction toward expanding Nuance’s Mobile Care offerings and our focus on providing innovative, secure self-service solutions to enterprises and mobile operators worldwide,” said Bob Wise, general manager and senior vice president of Nuance Mobile Care.

Nuance and Vesta will be showcasing the application at the upcoming Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona from February 15th through 18th in Hall 2, Booth D33. For more information about Nuance Mobile Care, please visit http://www.nuance.com/mobilecare.

About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance is a leading provider of speech, imaging and customer interaction solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications and professional services. For more information, please visit: www.nuance.com.

About Vesta Corporation
Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with operations in Europe and China, Vesta has been a pioneer and worldwide leader in electronic payment solutions since 1995. Vesta has established long-term, successful relationships with leading international companies including AT&T, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, China Unicom, Cricket Communications, Meteor Mobile Communications, O2, Sprint, T-Mobile, Tele2, Verizon, Vodafone and Yoigo. For more information, visit www.trustvesta.com.

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