Marlborough, Massachusetts –November 30, 2009 – Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ:
BITS) today announced its BOLT mobile browser has been selected as a winner of the Tech Awards Circle, taking the Bronze Award for Best Consumer/SOHO Software. Winners were selected by an independent circle of publication reviewers and journalists. Tech Awards Circle celebrates the products, services, vendors and individuals making a difference in the technology industry today. The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange, and enterprise markets.
“This year BOLT has already been recognized by millions of consumer users as the best mobile browser on the market when they chose to download it to their mobile phones, replacing their default browsers,” said Anna Chagnon, Bitstream CEO. “Winning the Tech Award Circle further celebrates the industry leading innovations BOLT has introduced to the mobile browser market and cements BOLT’s place as a front runner in both innovation and delivering a superior customer experience.”
Since its introduction, 2.7 million Bolt accounts have been created, with as many as 2.5 million pages being served up each day. The BOLT mobile browser, built to be used on a wide range of mobile phones from simple “feature” phones to more advanced devices such as BlackBerry smartphones, has averaged greater than 50 percent growth in usage each month since the application made its public debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this past February.
BOLT’s Unique Capabilities Include:
Best of breed page load speeds
Most accurate page rendering
Displays full websites just as they would appear on desktop computers
Streams videos from popular video services such as YouTube
Copy and paste text
Upload video and photo files directly to websites from browser
Only WebKit based cloud computing browser
“Despite overwhelmingly strong competition, Bitstream exhibited true industry excellence to be recognized among the top of the Tech Awards Circle,” said Kevin Anderson, awards program coordinator. “To be named a winner of this prestigious award is a testament to the quality and innovation of BOLT.”
About BOLT:
BOLT offers best-of-breed page load speeds, and is the only J2ME browser that supports streaming video from popular media sharing sites like YouTube and MySpace. BOLT is WebKit based, runs well on nearly any J2ME phone and is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones. BOLT’s superior desktop-style page rendering, patented split-screen viewing mode, intuitive keystroke shortcuts and copy/paste functionality offer a user-friendly, feature-rich mobile browsing experience on 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. (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.
