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2006
2006 Nov 29   QNX Software Systems Signs Twelfth Licensing Agreement with Bitstream 
Font Fusion to be Used in QNX Operating System
Cambridge, MA—November 29, 2006 —Bitstream, Inc., (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today that QNX Software Systems has extended its licensing agreement with the company. Under this new agreement, QNX has extended its license for Bitstream’s Font Fusion technology. Font Fusion offers exceptional text rendering for mission-critical embedded systems based on the QNX® Neutrino® realtime operating system (RTOS). This agreement is the twelfth agreement between the two companies.Read more...
2006 Nov 06   Bitstream Improves the Speed of Its Leading Font Rendering Solution for Small Embedded Systems
Cambridge, MANovember 6, 2006
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS, www.bitstream.com) announced today the release of Font Fusion® 3.3. This release offers a significant increase in rendering speed for compressed fonts and reasserts Font Fusion’s dominant position as the fastest font engine available today. Read more...
2006 Aug 14   Bitstream Releases Major Upgrade to Its Leading Text Composition Engine for Small Embedded Systems
Release of Bitstream Panorama 3.0 includes full support for Arabic, Hebrew, Indian, and Thai complex language scripts devices
Cambridge, MA — August 14, 2006 Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today the release of version 3.0 of Bitstream PanoramaTM, a worldwide text composition engine that enables developers to compose and render text in any international language, including such complex scripts as Arabic, Hebrew, Indic, and Thai. Read more...
2006 Apr 25   Bitstream Releases the Latest Update to Its Leading Font Rendering Solution for Small Embedded Systems
Font Fusion 3.2 optimizes performance for mobile handsets and consumer
electronics devices
Cambridge, MA — April 25, 2006 Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today the release of Font Fusion® 3.2. This release is the latest update to Bitstream’s Font Fusion technology, the company’s smallest, most advanced font rasterizing engine, and the fastest font engine on the market today. Read more...
2006 Apr 11   MyFonts Makes Font Downloading Easy with New Automated Windows
Font Installer

Using new fonts is just a few clicks away
CAMBRIDGE, MA — April 11, 2006 — MyFonts (NASDAQ: BITS, www.myfonts.com), the leading online provider of the world’s fonts, announced today that it has greatly simplified the process of downloading and installing fonts from the MyFonts website. Windows users can now install purchased fonts immediately with just a few clicks.
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2006 Apr 03   mPhase Technologies Licenses Bitstream Fonts for Customized Electronic Programming Guides
Agreement Enables Creation of User Interface in Multiple Languages
CAMBRIDGE, MA — April 3, 2006 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today that mPhase Technologies (OTCBB:XDSL) has signed an agreement to license Bitstream’s Font Fusion technology and Bitstream fonts for their mPhase TV + System.  Under this agreement, mPhase Technologies will use Bitstream’s Font Fusion technology to create programming guides in a range of languages. Read more...
2006 Mar 08   Complete Berthold BQ Library Now Available at MyFonts
CAMBRIDGE, MA March 8, 2006 — MyFonts (NASDAQ: BITS, www.myfonts.com), the leading provider of the world’s fonts available from one easy-to-use website, announced today that the Berthold BQ Library is now available at MyFonts. All fonts can be purchased and downloaded immediately.Read more...
2006 Feb 06   Bitstream Announces the Addition of New Lincoln Gothic Font Set to Its New Font Collection
CAMBRIDGE, MA — February 6, 2006 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today the addition of The New Lincoln Gothic font set to its New Font Collection program. This set includes 24 OpenType fonts in one extended family. Read more...
2005
2005 Nov 03   Bitstream Releases Font Fusion 3.1, the Leading Font Rendering Solution for Small Embedded Systems
New release optimizes caching for memory-constrained consumer devices and mobile phones
CAMBRIDGE, MA — November 3, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today the release of Font Fusion® 3.1, the company’s smallest, most advanced font rasterizing engine, and the fastest font engine on the market today. Read more...
2005 Oct 18   Corel Signs 25th License Agreement with Bitstream
Leading developer of easy-to-use personal productivity software extends long-standing agreement with Bitstream for font solutions
CAMBRIDGE, MA — October 18, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today it has renewed its licensing agreement with Corel Corporation. Corel continues to include Bitstream font technology solutions in CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite and WordPerfect® Office. This is the twenty-fifth agreement between the two companies. Read more...
2005 Aug 23   Bitstream Provides Font Technology and Font Suites to Samsung Electronics
Global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies signs long-term agreement with Bitstream
CAMBRIDGE, MA — August 23, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today that Samsung has licensed Bitstream font technology and printer resident font suites for its laser printers and multi-function printing (MFP) devices. Samsung chose the Bitstream font solution because of its compact code size, support for industry-standard formats, fast rendering speed, and ability to print high-quality characters. Read more...
2005 Aug 08   Bitstream Offers Small, Fast Font Rendering Subsystem for Symbian OS Mobile Phones
Bitstream Joins Symbian Platinum Program
CAMBRIDGE, MA — August 8, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for data-enabled mobile phones, also known as smartphones, based on Symbian OS™.... As of Q1 2005, cumulative shipments of Symbian OS phones exceeded 32 million and year-on-year phone shipments grew more than 180 percent compared to the same quarter last year. Read more...
2005 Aug 01   Bitstream Integrates Font Fusion with Symbian OS
Leading font rendering solution for small embedded systems now working on leading operating system for data-enabled mobile phones
CAMBRIDGE, MA — August 1, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today that it has integrated Font Fusion® 3.0, the company’s smallest, most advanced font rasterizing engine, and the fastest font engine on the market today, with Symbian OS™. Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the operating system that powers today’s most popular smartphones. Read more...
2005 Jul 21   Bitstream Wins TrueDoc Lawsuit on All Counts
CAMBRIDGE, MA — June 28, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today that Judge Amy J. St. Eve of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division ruled in favor of Bitstream on all counts in the case of Monotype Imaging, Inc. (formerly Agfa Monotype Corporation) and International Typeface Corporation v. Bitstream Inc. Read more...
2005 Jun 28   Bitstream Receives Chinese Government Approval for GB18030 Font
Government agencies certify Bitstream Hei font for licensing in the People's Republic of China
CAMBRIDGE, MA — June 28, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today that it has received certification of its GB18030 font, Bitstream Hei, from both the SLC (State Language Committee) and CITS/CESI (Committee on Information Technology Standards / China Electronics Standardization Institute). Read more...
2005 Jun 22   Sakkal Design and Bitstream Partner To Bring Arabic Fonts to Developers
World-renowned typeface design firm establishes long-term relationship with Bitstream
BOTHELL, WASHINGTON and CAMBRIDGE, MA — June 22, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) and Sakkal Design today announced an agreement to bring a wide variety of classic and contemporary Arabic fonts to developers licensing Bitstream Font Fusion®, Bitstream’s premier font rendering technology, and Bitstream Panorama, a global text composition engine. Read more...
2005 Jun 22   C-DAC and Bitstream Partner To Bring Indian Language Fonts to Developers
Well-established Indian government institution establishes long-term relationship with Bitstream
PUNE, INDIA and CAMBRIDGE, MA — June 22, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) and C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), GIST, Pune, India, today announced an agreement to bring a wide variety of classic and contemporary Indian language fonts to developers licensing Bitstream Font Fusion®, Bitstream’s premier font rendering technology, and Bitstream Panorama, a global text composition engine. Read more...
2005 Jun 20   Bitstream Releases Version 2.0 of Global Text Composition Engine
Major release of Bitstream Panorama includes full support for Arabic, Hebrew, Indian and other complex language scripts
CAMBRIDGE, MA — June 20, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today the release of version 2.0 of Bitstream Panorama, a small, portable line layout engine that enables developers to compose complex lines of text. The product features high-level APIs to lay out, position, substitute, and render characters in all international languages. Read more...
2005 Jun 06   Bitstream Releases Font Fusion 3.0, the Leading Font Rendering Solution for Small Embedded Systems
Major release provides new support for font compression of all font formats

CAMBRIDGE, MA — June 6, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today the release of Font Fusion® 3.0, the company’s smallest, most advanced font rasterizing engine, and the fastest font engine on the market today. Read more...
2005 May 24   BroadVision Extends Long-Standing License Agreement with Bitstream
REDWOOD CITY, CA and CAMBRIDGE, MA — May 24, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) and BroadVision, Inc. (NASDAQ: BVSN) announced today that BroadVision has extended its agreement with Bitstream to license Bitstream font rendering technology and over 100 fonts for BroadVision’s self-service web applications. Read more...
2005 May 23   VirtuosoWorks and Bitstream Announce Agreement to Bring High-Quality Fonts to the Music Composition Market with NOTIONT
GREENSBORO, NC and CAMBRIDGE, MA — May 23, 2005 — VirtuosoWorks, Inc., and Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today that VirtuosoWorks has licensed a set of high-quality fonts for use with NOTION™, their music composition and performance software. VirtuosoWorks selected the font set from Bitstream’s typeface library. Read more...
2005 May 09   MyFonts Awarded U.S. Patent
CAMBRIDGE, MASS — May 9, 2005 — MyFonts, a subsidiary of Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS), and the leading provider of the world's fonts available from one easy-to-use website, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded a patent for MyFonts' system for selecting and distributing fonts in conjunction with its e-commerce system. Read more...
2005 Mar 29   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. Read more...
2005 Mar 15   Embedded Internet Solutions and Bitstream Announce Agreement to Bring Complete Font Rendering Solution to iPanel MicroBrowser
Leading provider of embedded software solutions for digital TV set-top boxes licenses Bitstream's premier font rendering engine and compact Asian fonts
SANTA CLARA, CA and CAMBRIDGE, MA — March 15, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. ( NASDAQ: BITS) and Embedded Internet Solutions (EIS) announced today that EIS has signed an agreement with Bitstream to license Font Fusion (Bitstream’s premier font rendering engine), Bitstream’s compact stroke-based Asian fonts, and Bitstream’s Thai and Vietnamese fonts for its iPanel Digital TV middleware. Read more...
2005 Mar 08   Bitstream's CCTV Font Set to Provide Closed Captioning Display for Moxi Media Center Platform
Digeo renews license of high-quality fonts
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and KIRKLAND, Wash. — March 8, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. ( NASDAQ: BITS) announced a new agreement to supply its CCTV Font Set to Digeo, Inc. for use with its Moxi™ Media Center. Enabling the display of FCC-standard closed captioning, the CCTV Font set helps bring the Moxi Media Center experience to life for the more than 28 million Americans with hearing or vision impairments. Read more...
2005 Mar 07   Wishblade and Bitstream Announce Agreement to Bring High-Quality Fonts to the Scrapbooking & Papercrafting Market
Wishblade licenses new, fun, and edgy “Breaking the Norm” font designs from Bitstream
ST. PAUL, MN and CAMBRIDGE, MA — March 7, 2005 — Wishblade Inc. and Bitstream Inc. ( NASDAQ: BITS) announced today that Wishblade Inc. has licensed 6 font sets for use with the Wishblade™ Personal Media Cutter. Wishblade selected the fonts from Bitstream’s new typeface library of Breaking the Norm fonts. Read more...
2005 Jan 25   MyFonts Sells 1,000,000th Font
Leading font site reaches milestone for online font sales
CAMBRIDGE, MASS — January 25, 2005 — MyFonts, a subsidiary of Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS), announced today that it has sold its 1,000,000th font. Read more...
2004
2004 Oct 19   MyFonts Adds New, Innovative Best-Selling Fonts
2004 Sep 14   Markem Licenses Font Fusion and Stroke-Based Asian Fonts from Bitstream
2004 Sep 07   BTA Digital Works Licenses Font Solution from Bitstream
2004 Aug 23   MyFonts Becomes Fastest Growing Reseller of Linotype Fonts
2004 Aug 17   Linspire, Inc. To Offer "Breaking the Norm" Font Packs From Bitstream
2004 Jul 21   Bitstream Releases First OpenType Pro Pack
2004 Jun 22   Bitstream Releases New Global Text Composition Engine
2004 Jun 22   Bitstream Releases Font Fusion 2.5, the Leading Font Rendering Solution for Digital Television
2004 Jun 17   Bitstream Releases Ninth Set of Fonts from the New Font Collection Program
2004 Jun 10   Lycoris Licenses btX2 Font Engine from Bitstream
2004 Jun 02   Chronos and Bitstream Announce Agreement to Bring High-Quality Fonts to SOHO Business Cards
2004 May 26   Lycoris and Bitstream Continue Alliance to Bring High-Quality Fonts to Linux
2004 Feb 17   MyFonts.com Adds Innovative Typeface Designs from Foundries Large and Small
2004 Jan 20   Lycoris and Bitstream Announce Long-Term Agreement to Bring High-Quality Fonts to Linux
2004 Jan 21   Bitstream Releases Eighth Set of Fonts from the New Font Collection Program
2004 Jan 06   MyFonts.com Adds 400 Typefaces from Leading Russian Foundry ParaType
 
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