| SanDisk Ships SD Wi-Fi Connectivity
Cards to Major Retailers SanDisk and Bitstream Also Announce Plan To Bundle Wireless Web Browser with SanDisk SD Wi-Fi Cards LAS VEGAS, NV — October 21, 2003 — SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) reported today that its new SanDisk Connect SD Wi-Fi cards are now being sold at BestBuy.com, CompUSA and other retail outlets. SanDisk and Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ:BITS) also announced that SanDisk will include the trial version of ThunderHawk, Bitstream's pioneering wireless Web browser, with each SanDisk Connect SD Wi-Fi card. The announcements were made at the CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association) trade show where SanDisk is demonstrating products in booth 929 and Bitstream is demonstrating ThunderHawk in booth 932. The ThunderHawk wireless Web browser lets Pocket PC users view full HTML Web pages over the wireless Internet. For easier viewing, the mobile browser displays the complete text and images of any Web page horizontally in landscape mode while maintaining full text legibility. David Smurthwaite, a SanDisk retail product marketing manager, said, "We are pleased with the demand for our first SD communications card product - the Connect SD Wi-Fi card - and we are pleased that major retailers are now selling the card. We also think that this SanDisk SD Wi-Fi - ThunderHawk combination is a perfect solution for business users, consumers and the many students with PDAs on campuses with Wi-Fi access. More than 100 U.S. colleges and universities have Wi-Fi access today and a growing number of high schools are also installing Wi-Fi hot spots to give their students wireless connectivity to the Internet." The SanDisk SD Wi-Fi card has a suggested retail price of $129.95, and the ThunderHawk application will be included on a 30-day trial basis. Smurthwaite noted, "There are thousands of hot spots where mobile consumers can access desired content and information on a handheld computer. Pairing our Wi-Fi card with a wireless Web browser gives consumers a cleaner, more complete view of content on a small handheld screen. With standard handheld browser software, many users only see a partial or altered view of Web and content pages. But ThunderHawk resolves those problems. We are pleased to introduce Bitstream's wireless Web browser to our Wi-Fi SD card users." Bitstream President Anna Chagnon said, "The SanDisk SD Wi-Fi card will give mobile users wireless access to the information they need, crucial for people on the go. This partnership provides a perfect fit for our wireless Web browser. The Wi-Fi access that SanDisk's new card provides allows customers using ThunderHawk to browse the Web and work with Web-based E-mail and applications wirelessly. We are pleased to partner with SanDisk, the world's leading supplier of flash memory data storage products. This is a win-win-win solution for Bitstream, SanDisk and, most importantly, mobile customers." About ThunderHawk ThunderHawk brings the desktop Web browsing experience to mobile device users. It allows a Pocket PC with a 320x240 color LCD screen to display a legible SVGA (800x600) or VGA (640x480) screen of a Web page. It also allows a Smartphone with a 176x200 color LCD screen to display an 800x946-pixel Web page. You can view ThunderHawk screen shots at http://www.bitstream.com/wireless. Bitstream relied on its twenty years of font experience to create this 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. About SanDisk SanDisk's Web site/home page address: http://www.sandisk.com. The matters discussed in this news release contain forward looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties as described under the caption, "Factors That May Affect Future Results" in the company's annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company assumes no obligation to update the information in this release. 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 Mike Wong |