Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced its BOLT mobile browser has been selected as a winner of the Tech Awards Circle, taking the Bronze Award for Best Consumer/SOHO Software. Winners were selected by an independent circle of publication reviewers and journalists.
Tech Awards Circle celebrates the products, services, vendors and individuals making a difference in the technology industry today. The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange, and enterprise markets.
“This year BOLT has already been recognized by millions of consumer users as the best mobile browser on the market when they chose to download it to their mobile phones, replacing their default browsers,” said Anna Chagnon, Bitstream CEO. “Winning the Tech Award Circle further celebrates the industry leading innovations BOLT has introduced to the mobile browser market and cements BOLT’s place as a front runner in both innovation and delivering a superior customer experience.”
Since its introduction, 2.7 million Bolt accounts have been created, with as many as 2.5 million pages being served up each day. The BOLT mobile browser, built to be used on a wide range of mobile phones from simple “feature” phones to more advanced devices such as BlackBerry smartphones, has averaged greater than 50 percent growth in usage each month since the application made its public debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this past February.
BOLT’s Unique Capabilities Include:
“Despite overwhelmingly strong competition, Bitstream exhibited true industry excellence to be recognized among the top of the Tech Awards Circle,” said Kevin Anderson, awards program coordinator. “To be named a winner of this prestigious award is a testament to the quality and innovation of BOLT.”
More information about Tech Awards Circle, including the full list of winners, is available online at http://www.techawardscircle.com or by email at info@techawardscircle.com.
About BOLT:
BOLT offers best-of-breed page load speeds, and is the only J2ME browser that supports streaming video from popular media sharing sites like YouTube and MySpace. BOLT is WebKit based, runs well on nearly any J2ME phone and is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones. BOLT’s superior desktop-style page rendering, patented split-screen viewing mode, intuitive keystroke shortcuts and copy/paste functionality offer a user-friendly, feature-rich mobile browsing experience on even entry-level mobile phones. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.
About Bitstream:
Bitstream Inc. develops software technologies and applications for the graphic art and mobile communications industries. Bitstream develops award winning fonts and font technologies, under the Bitstream brand, that enable device manufacturers and application developers to render the highest quality text in any language, on any device, at any resolution in resource-constrained environments such as mobile phones, set top boxes, and embedded operating systems. The company’s MyFonts brand is the world’s leading provider of fonts to consumers. With more than 1 million registered users, MyFonts.com makes it easy to find, try and buy fonts from one of the largest selections of fonts online – over 62,000 fonts from more than 500 foundries worldwide. Bitstream’s Pageflex brand enables marketers, and the agencies and printers that serve them, to easily produce customized communications in print, email, and online. Pageflex also enables software companies to protect and enhance their brands, develop one-to-one conversations with customers and prospects, and streamline their document production processes. Bitstream’s latest offering is the BOLT mobile browser, which has been installed by millions of users worldwide since its release in February 2009. BOLT is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones and is built on a WebKit architecture that offers the most accurate desktop-style page rendering of any mobile browser. BOLT’s PC-level web support, streaming video support, patented split-screen viewing mode, intuitive keystroke shortcuts and copy/paste functionality offer a user-friendly, feature-rich mobile browsing experience on even entry-level mobile phones.
About Tech Awards Circle:
Tech Awards Circle was established this year to truly honor the ‘best of the best’ in technology. Tech Awards Circle is not affiliated with an analyst firm or a media company, both of which are directly supported by tech vendors through consulting relationships or advertising sales, so it is uniquely unbiased and immune to conflicts of interest. Entries are judged by an independent circle of journalists, including product reviewers, each with at least a decade of experience covering technology from consumer electronics to enterprise-class computing. To prevent these judges from being unduly influenced by vendors, they have agreed to remain anonymous. For more information or to be added to the mailing list please visit www.techawardscircle.com.