| Bitstream ThunderHawk Wins Pocket
PC Magazine's Best Software of 2003 Award International Board of Experts Chooses ThunderHawk Browser the Number One Application in "Browsers and Web Utilities" Category CAMBRIDGE, MA — October 28, 2003 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS ) announced today that Pocket PC magazine has awarded the ThunderHawk wireless Web browser its prestigious Best Software of 2003 Award in the Browsers and Web Utilities category. Pocket PC magazine's Best Software Awards celebrate the efforts of developers whose products increase the enjoyment and productivity of Pocket PC and Smartphone users. The forthcoming Dec./Jan. issue of Pocket PC magazine will showcase this year's winners. Information about Bitstream's award-winning software in Pocket PC magazine's end user software categories can also be viewed online at http://www.Pocket PCmag.com/awards/category.asp?catid=40 . Over 600 Pocket PC, Smartphone, Developer, and Enterprise Deployment products in 100 categories were nominated for the Pocket PC magazine Best Software Awards 2003. Experts from around the world agreed to judge and to select winners for each category. "Our Pocket PC Best Software Awards, now in their 3rd year, recognize the best and the brightest in the mobile device industry," said Rich Hall, Managing Editor of Pocket PC magazine. "Our international board of experts chose ThunderHawk as the best application in the Browser and Web Utilities category because of its capability to bring real desktop browsing to Pocket PC devices." "This award acknowledges our position as the best browser for mobile devices," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "Our technology, which is easy to learn and implement, is designed to give the mobile workforce complete access to full-featured Internet and corporate intranet Web pages. To broaden the appeal of this technology to markets worldwide, we recently previewed the alpha release of this award-winning technology for Smartphones at the CTIA Wireless Show. This release brings to cell phones the display power ThunderHawk has already demonstrated on Pocket PCs. We are honored to receive the Best Software 2003 Award from Pocket PC magazine." About ThunderHawk ThunderHawk is a client-server solution for wireless Web browsing across enterprise networks. ThunderHawk Enterprise Server gives a company's mobile workforce complete access to Internet and corporate intranet Web pages. Bitstream is working with key strategic partners in the computer and telecommunications industries and welcomes inquiries from other organizations who wish to license ThunderHawk. Bitstream relied on its twenty years of font experience to create its first wireless Web browser. ThunderHawk renders text using the Wireless Font Set, made up of high-quality fonts that render well at small point sizes on any display. The fonts are designed specifically for wireless devices and produce high-quality output for color LCD, anti-aliased, and black-and-white displays, fitting as much text as possible onto their small screens, as well as providing maximum legibility in such displays. If your company is interested in ThunderHawk,
E-mail us at thunderhawk@bitstream.com,
contact Bitstream at 800.522.3668 or 617.497.6222, or visit us on
the Web at http://www.bitstream.com
. Bitstream Inc. Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first independent digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com, Inc. (www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. Also in 1999, Bitstream established Pageflex (www.pageflexinc.com), the pioneer of a new direction in composition software: Web-top publishing. Bitstream is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bitstream, Font Fusion, and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and the Bitstream logo and ThunderHawk are trademarks, of Bitstream Inc. MyFonts.com is a trademark of MyFonts.com, Inc., a Bitstream company. Pageflex is a registered trademark of Pageflex, a Bitstream company. Other technologies and brand names are used for information only and remain trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Contact Anna Chagnon |