Bitstream Releases BREW-Compatible Versions of its ThunderHawk Mobile Browser and Font Rendering Plug-ins

Business Wire, May 28, 2008

ThunderHawk, Font Fusion([R]) and Panorama([R]) Now Available For All Qualcomm BREW[R] Enabled Mobile Devices

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) a software development company with core competencies in browsing, font and publishing technologies, announced today that it will be making its ThunderHawk mobile browser and Font Fusion([R]) and Panorama([R]) font rendering plug-ins available to BREW carriers, device manufacturers, and developers. ThunderHawk, the fastest mobile browser on the market today, will now be available on the hundreds of mobile devices that run on the BREW platform. The Font Fusion and Panorama plug-ins will now enable BREW devices to efficiently and quickly display the highest quality text available in any global marketplace. ThunderHawk, Font Fusion, and Panorama for BREW will be demonstrated at Bitstream booth 308 at the BREW 2008 Conference, May 28-30, San Diego, CA.

"By making Bitstream technology available via BREW, we've taken an indispensable step in keeping pace with evolving trends in the delivery of news and other information," said Anna Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream, Inc. "Today's advanced and feature-rich mobile devices, combined with the increasingly widespread dissemination of news on mobile platforms, adds up to a real market need for the agile, efficient browsing and font technologies that Bitstream provides."

BREW provides a comprehensive, industry-proven solution for the development and delivery of advanced wireless data across virtually every media category - from full-track music, ringtones and wallpapers to streaming audio, video, navigation and games. It offers rich marketing and merchandizing capabilities both on and off device that allow for frequent updates and efficient catalog management, as well as flexible pricing options from subscriptions to micro-payments.

ThunderHawk is a lightweight mobile browser that provides a full desktop-quality HTML browsing experience on BREW-enabled handsets. Built on Bitstream core mobile technology, ThunderHawk enhances user experience by loading web pages appreciably faster than competing mobile browsers and enabling users to find and read information more quickly and easily via patented navigation and font rendering technologies. ThunderHawk's key features include:

* Consistent, secure, full desktop-quality HTML Web browsing experience without repurposing, reformatting, or removing any content

* Content is dynamically adapted to the actual screen size of both high and low end devices

* Text columns are dynamically fitted to the width of the mobile phone screen for fast, fluid reading

* A patented "Zoom In/Zoom Out" magnifier that enables subscribers to find and read information quickly

* Automatic delivery of RSS feeds to a mobile device without the need to visit Web pages

* One click to call any phone number on any Webpage directly from the browser

Font Fusion is designed to support handsets, operating systems, software applications, Web applications, low-resolution screen devices, multimedia servers, high-definition television screens (HDTVs), set-top boxes, printers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other embedded systems and Internet appliances. Font Fusion's key features include:

* The fastest font rendering engine currently available

* High-quality scalable text output

* Dynamic scaling with SmartScale scales extended characters such as accents and descenders to fit within a device's preset bounding box

* Small footprint - only 16-40k or RAM is required for Latin fonts

* Lossless font compression

* Support for all font formats, including Font Fusion's proprietary stroke-based CJK fonts

* Optimized cache management

* Text effects including glow, shadow, embossed and engraved

* Support for 32-bit Unicode for interpreting large font files as CJK with extended CMAPs for 32-bit Unicode values

* Additional support for CID keyed fonts enables rendering of CID keyed fonts

Bitstream Panorama is a universal text composition engine that enables developers to draw strings of characters and layout complex lines of text, by integrating text composition, positioning and rendering. Featuring a high-level application program interface (API) to layout, position, substitute and render characters in all languages including such complex scripts as Arabic and Indian, Panorama is a comprehensive text composition solution for international developers. Panorama's key features include:

* State-of-the-art global text composition

* Small footprint - only 80-140k of RAM is required

* Range-based font mapping for fonts based on Unicode ranges

* Font linking - supports font substitution (even at run time).

* Style-based font mapping intelligently picks an existing stylized font or applies the algorithmic style. When two font variants, regular and italic for example, are installed, a user selects italic and that font is picked. But if the italic font is not installed, Panorama enables the regular font to be made to italic algorithmically

* 32-bit Unicode support