| Connexion by Boeing
Signs Licensing Agreement with Bitstream Business unit of The Boeing Company licenses Bitstream's Unicode font for its award-winning In-flight Internet service SEATTLE, WA and CAMBRIDGE, MA — March 29, 2005 — Connexion by Boeing and Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today that the Boeing business unit has licensed Bitstream’s Unicode font for its mobile Internet service. The agreement will help ensure that airline passengers from around the world, who wish to access the Internet, will be able to do so using a simplified font recognition process. “Through its increasing availability aboard leading airlines worldwide, the Connexion by Boeing service is global in nature and that means we need it to be readily accessible for people from diverse regions and backgrounds,” said Jeff Flagel, Director of Supply Chain Management for Connexion by Boeing. “Our agreement with Bitstream provides us with a single font recognition system that will help ensure that airline passengers have access to the data and content they want and need in flight and in the languages and fonts to which they are accustomed.” “Connexion by Boeing allows mobile travelers to make the best use of their in-flight time. Travelers can access company e-mail, files, and business applications securely from the air, instead of waiting until they reach their destination, particularly important for long-distance international routes,” stated Anna Chagnon, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bitstream. “The combined elements of the Web and business applications are an ideal deployment for Bitstream font solutions. We are very honored to establish a partnership with Connexion by Boeing, a leading provider of Internet services for people on the go.” Each plane equipped with the Connexion by Boeing service offers either a wireless 802.11b network connection, an Ethernet Local Area Network (LAN) connection or both. Passengers who log into the service have access to the World Wide Web; two-way, real-time e-mail and their corporate intranet, including virtual private network capability; and entertainment content. Bitstream’s Unicode font provides extended language support in a single font. It supports extended characters and currency symbols; Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, and Turkish characters; Hebrew and Arabic characters; and Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese characters. About Bitstream Connexion by Boeing Bitstream is a registered trademark and the Bitstream logo is a trademark of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Contact Anna Chagnon Terrance Scott |