Bitstream's T2K Font Engine Licensed for Microsoft TV Platform; T2K implementation in WebTV products will be expanded to include the use in the Microsoft TV Platform.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2000 Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq: BITS) announced today that Microsoft Corp. has licensed its T2K T2K Tempest 2000 (game; sequel to Tempest) T2K Time 2 Kill (gaming clan) font engine for general purpose use in conjunction with the Microsoft TV Microsoft TV is a division within Microsoft Corporation that develops software platforms for use in set top boxes to access programming over a Cable TV network. It provides integrated audio, video and data services over a single network. platform. This license expands the scope of an existing license agreement for T2K between WebTV Networks, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft, and Type Solutions, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bitstream, and includes payment of additional up front and annual licensing fees to Bitstream. The Microsoft TV platform is a comprehensive software solution for the television industry that makes television more useful, fun and engaging for consumers and creates significant new economic opportunities for network operators and their suppliers of programming, hardware and software. The client software, Microsoft TV, operates a range of TV-centric appliances, from advanced set-top boxes to integrated televisions. Microsoft TV Server is a suite of software components that offers network operators the tools to provision, manage, and operate a large-scale, commercial-grade enhanced TV Enhanced TV (ETV) is one example of interactive TV. It is used in particular in reference to Two-Screen Solutions TV + PC services. Generally users of these ETV services have their TV and computer in the same room, and navigate their web browser to a particular program-specific Web service. T2K is a high-performance font engine that is perfectly suited for set top box applications and the Internet appliance Also called "information appliance," "smart appliance," and "Web appliance," it is a device specialized for accessing the Web and/or e-mail. Designed for ease of use, it plugs into a telephone jack or LAN connection for Internet hookup. and wireless device markets. It provides high-quality rendering in any format, and is suitable for virtually any device, from the smallest embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. to the largest multi-threaded systems. T2K offers superior quality, speed, extremely small code size and font compression, as well as support for industry-standard font formats. In addition, T2K is easily scalable to Font Fusion Bitstream Font Fusion is a small, fast, object-oriented font engine written in ANSI C capable of rendering high-quality text on any platform, any device, and at any resolution. The entire source code is portable, optimized, and executes independent of operating system and processor. (TM), Bitstream's next generation font rendering engine. "We are very excited that Microsoft has begun implementation of T2K in the Microsoft TV platform in recognition of the quality, speed, and efficiency of T2K," said Anna Chagnon, the executive vice president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Bitstream. "As the market for handheld devices, Internet appliances, and digital set-top boxes continues to rapidly expand, the rendering quality of text is of crucial importance. Bitstream's premier font rendering technologies like T2K and the recently released Font Fusion will play an important role in the rapid acceptance of platforms like Microsoft TV, assuring the level of quality that customers demand." "The quality of T2K and its applicability to the television and set-top box environment make this a logical choice for us," said Tony Faustini, Technical Director, Technology Management Group for the Microsoft TV platform division. "By leveraging Bitstream's expertise with font technologies, we can deliver a top-notch font rendering solution in Microsoft TV." About Bitstream, the Internet Font Company Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS), headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. , is a leading developer of type technology, digital typefaces, and type customization services for the graphics communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. . Bitstream licenses its WebFont(TM) and Font Fusion(TM) font portability and rendering technology to hundreds of industry-leading Internet, Web, and publishing software applications developers, as well as to manufacturers of computers, printers, set-top boxes, and other devices. Bitstream has been awarded several patents that cover aspects of creating subsetted fonts, managing and rendering portable font objects, and using portable fonts for Web publishing. Bitstream also offers on-demand marketing software through its wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. , Pageflex Inc. For more information on Bitstream and its products, visit the company on the World Wide Web at www.bitstream.com. Bitstream is a registered trademark, and WebFont and Font Fusion are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. T2K is a trademark of Type Solutions, a Bitstream company. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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