Bitstream Announces Preview of ThunderHawk 2.0; Award-Winning Mobile Browsing Technology Enables Users to Easily Find and Read Information on Small Screen Devices.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Mobile Enterprise 2004 LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 2004 Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) announced today the release of ThunderHawk(TM) 2.0, the company's breakthrough mobile browsing technology. Bitstream(R) is previewing ThunderHawk 2.0 PocketPC Edition at Mobile Enterprise 2004 today through Thursday. ThunderHawk 2.0 further narrows the gap between mobile and desktop environments by including functionality that enhances the browsing experience on small screen devices: -- Effortless ef·fort·less adj. Calling for, requiring, or showing little or no effort. See Synonyms at easy. ef  fort·less·ly adv. Scrolling (chat, games) scrolling - To flood a chat room or Internet game with text or macros in an attempt to annoy the occupants. This can often cause the chat room to be "uninhabitable" due to the "noise" created by the scroller. Compare spam. . Fast, fluid Web page navigation, as if you were browsing on your desktop. -- Increased Speed. Download ThunderHawk directly to your PocketPC for the fastest mobile Web page speeds available. -- Immediate Browsing at Download. Just-rendered Web links work immediately, so you don't have to wait for the initial page to finish downloading. -- Seamless Connectivity. With ThunderHawk 2.0, a dropped connection is re-established immediately, along with any data you previously entered. While some browsers reformat (1) To change the record layout of a file or database. (2) To initialize a disk over again. the Web page for quick reading, users still have to scroll To continuously move forward, backward or sideways through the text and images on screen or within a window. Scrolling implies continuous and smooth movement, a line, character or pixel at a time, as if the data were on a paper scroll being rolled behind the screen. See auto scroll. through several pages before finding the information they need. ThunderHawk 2.0 promotes effortless navigation on mobile devices because HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. Web pages look just as they would appear on desktop browsers users are already familiar with. As a result, images are full and crisp, text is sharp, and users can easily find and read information. "Our ThunderHawk development goals always focus on delivering the best user experience for browsing Web pages on mobile devices," said Anna Chagnon, president and chief executive officer of Bitstream. "ThunderHawk 2.0 meets our users' expectations of not only finding information fast, but also being able to read it quickly on their PocketPCs. ThunderHawk enterprise clients will appreciate this ease-of-use, especially when deploying business applications for access in the field, as well as ThunderHawk's 128-bit encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. technology not available on any other 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 . Bitstream looks forward to releasing ThunderHawk 2.0 for cell and SmartPhone A cellular telephone with information access. It provides digital voice service as well as any combination of e-mail, text messaging, pager, Web access, voice recognition, still and/or video camera, MP3, TV or video player and organizer (see PDA). users in upcoming months." For more information, e-mail the ThunderHawk team at thsales@bitstream.com. About ThunderHawk ThunderHawk(TM), a breakthrough wireless 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. from Bitstream, brings the familiar desktop browsing experience to mobile devices. ThunderHawk eliminates excessive scrolling and slow data transmission speeds that plague other mobile browsers. Some mobile browsers reformat a Web page so you can read information quickly, but you still have to scroll through several pages of text to find what you need. Other browsers show only a small portion of a Web page, forcing you to scroll around a stamp-sized window. With ThunderHawk, you can view sharp text and crisp graphics on full Web pages, so information is always easy to find and easy to read on small screen devices. Data is transmitted in a compact format, making ThunderHawk the fastest wireless Web browser in head-to-head comparisons. Designed to be device and operating system-independent, ThunderHawk offers a consistent browsing experience across wireless devices and platforms. ThunderHawk supports rich, full-featured Web pages with a high degree of compliance with open HTML standards, including CSS (1) See Cascading Style Sheets. (2) (Content Scrambling System) The copy protection system applied to DVDs, which uses a 40-bit key to encrypt the movie. and DHTML See Dynamic HTML. DHTML - Dynamic HTML . As the only browser with 128-bit encryption both ways, ThunderHawk provides the highest level of security available. You can even submit complex forms on your mobile device that you can't use with other wireless browsers because ThunderHawk is JavaScript compliant. By delivering full-featured Web browsing to mobile devices, ThunderHawk enables you to view Web sites just as they would appear on your desktop, for effortless mobile browsing anytime, anywhere. Award-Winning Technology Pocket PC magazine awarded ThunderHawk its prestigious Best Software of 2003 Award in the Browsers and Web Utilities category. Pocket PC magazine's Best Software Awards celebrate the efforts of developers whose products increase the enjoyment and productivity of Pocket PC and smart phone users. "Our international board of experts chose ThunderHawk as the best application in the Browser and Web Utilities category because of its capability to bring real desktop browsing to Pocket PC devices It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome. This is a list of Pocket PC and Windows CE devices, and companies that make, or have made, them. ," said Rich Hall, managing editor of Pocket PC Magazine. ThunderHawk Enterprise Server Edition ThunderHawk Enterprise Server Edition is a client-server technology for corporations and for carriers and device manufacturers. ThunderHawk enables your mobile employees or subscribers to browse the wireless Web across networks while providing complete, secure access to Internet and corporate intranet Web pages. ThunderHawk SmartPhone Edition ThunderHawk SmartPhone Edition displays Web sites just as they appear on the desktop, for the best browsing experience on small screen devices. Users can read Web-based e-mail See Internet e-mail service and HTML e-mail. , check flight and travel information, go shopping online, and browse the wireless Web on a SmartPhone or cell phone. ThunderHawk PocketPC Edition ThunderHawk PocketPC Edition allows users to browse the Web on a PocketPC effortlessly ef·fort·less adj. Calling for, requiring, or showing little or no effort. See Synonyms at easy. ef fort·less·ly adv. . ThunderHawk provides an 800x600 virtual screen resolution on 320x240 screens, so users can read Web-based e-mail, access bank statements online, and do much more, much faster, than they can with other mobile browsers. For More Information If your company is interested in ThunderHawk, e-mail the company at thsales@bitstream.com, contact Bitstream at 800-522-3668 or 617-497-6222, or visit the company on the Web at http://www.bitstream.com/wireless. About Bitstream Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) is a software development company that focuses on the presentation of data. Bitstream enables customers worldwide to render high-quality text, browse the Web on wireless devices, select from the largest collection of fonts online, and customize documents over the Internet. Its core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
or typeface or type family Assortment or set of type (alphanumeric characters used for printing), all of one coherent style. Before the advent of computers, fonts were expressed in cast metal that was used as a template for printing. technology, browsing technology, e-commerce technology, and publishing technology. Visit Bitstream on the Web at http://www.bitstream.com. Note to Editors: Bitstream is a registered trademark and the Bitstream logo and ThunderHawk are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are used for information only and remain trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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