BOLT Mobile Browser Renders Its 15 Millionth Page as New Users Climb Past 300,000 in First Month of Public Beta.Early usage figures demonstrate the popularity of streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Less than one month after its public debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BITS) today announced that BOLT(TM), the company's web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. for mobile phones of all types, has served more than 15 million page views to users all around the world. Just four weeks since BOLT(TM) became publicly available in beta, the company has recorded more than 300,000 new users, doubling the number of new users of the fastest mobile browser A mobile browser (earlier referred to as a microbrowser or minibrowser) is a web browser designed for use on a mobile device such as a mobile phone or PDA. Mobile browsers are optimised so as to display Web content most effectively for small screens on portable on the market in less than three weeks. People are enjoying the video streaming See streaming video and video stream. feature of the BOLT browser - the only mobile browser that lets people enjoy streaming videos on average mobile phones from such popular video services as YouTube, vids.myspace.com, video.yahoo.com, blip.tv, dailymotion.com, metacafe.com and more. Of the total bandwidth used by all BOLT users surfing the Internet, a full third was consumed by streaming video. Optimized to conserve battery life and data transmissions, BOLT features unrivaled speed - consistently 25 to 50 percent faster than competitors. BOLT offers ultra-fast viewing of streaming and flash video, high standards compliance, rich media and graphics enabling people to view websites just as they do on a PC. Built with proprietary compression, navigation and rendering technologies, BOLT enables users to find and read information quickly and easily. Once users have navigated to the specific section of the large web page they are viewing, they can then zoom in to display clear text and images that look crisp on even small mobile phone screens. Features of this BOLT public beta release See beta version. include: * Fast, secure, desktop-style web browsing on both high-end and low-end handsets * Streaming video capabilities * Split screen and full screen modes for easy navigation and viewing * Easily add and select favorites and view browsing history * Intuitive keystroke key·stroke n. A stroke of a key, as on a word processor. key  stroke shortcuts See Win Shortcuts. for easier navigation and content
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* Protection against spyware and malicious or faulty add-ons * Extends battery life and uses less data than competing browsers BOLT is now available for free to anyone as part of its public beta test. Visit http://boltbrowser.com. About BOLT: The BOLT mobile browser, compatible with the majority of the world's 4 billion mobile phones, offers unrivaled speed and desktop-style web browsing including the ability to stream video. A patented split-screen viewing and intuitive keystroke shortcuts make navigating web pages simple. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com - the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone. About Bitstream: Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company focused on bringing unique software products to a wide variety of markets. The company's core software products include award-winning fonts and font rendering software, mobile browsing and variable data publishing The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. and web-to-print software for personalized marketing. For more information about Bitstream please visit www.bitstream.com. |
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