Bitstream Partners with Spyglass to Incorporate Font Technology in Interactive Television.CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 1999-- Bitstream's Font Technology and Spyglass ThinGUI Graphics Library Significantly Enhances Television Display Quality Internet pioneer Spyglass(R) 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 : SPYG) announced today at the 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. Conference Spring that support for Bitstream's (NASDAQ: BITS) patented, award-winning scaleable font technology, TrueDoc , would be made available in the Spyglass ThinGUI Library. Bitstream's TrueDoc works well for interactive television applications. With its small code size and fast rendering speed, TrueDoc provides interactive television developers with scaleable fonts that have minimal impact on system resources. TrueDoc takes up a small amount of space, generates characters quickly, and renders high-quality text. The resulting characters are fully scaleable to any point size at any resolution on any device. Spyglass ThinGUI Library is a small footprint, 2-D graphics library created specifically for device manufacturers that require a robust user interface in processor and memory constrained environments. Spyglass ThinGUI Library is bundled with Spyglass Device Mosaic 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. and Spyglass Device Mail Internet mail technology to assure a highly customizable, portable user interface for television and other non-PC device implementations. By integrating Bitstream's font technology in the Spyglass ThinGUI Library, manufacturers and developers will have access to a broader range of font capabilities that significantly improve the look of Web content displayed on a television. TrueDoc's multilingual capabilities can record and render any character shape. It is fully compatible with double-byte non-Latin fonts, and it supports languages written vertically or right to left. These fonts will speed the process of developing country-specific versions of both the Spyglass Device Mosaic browser and the Spyglass Device Mail email product. Versions of these technologies are on display here at the Embedded Systems Conference in Spyglass booth #1221. "Bitstream's TrueDoc is being widely adopted in the Internet, intranet and embedded systems markets," said Randy Littleson, Spyglass vice president and general manager. "TrueDoc's small size, high quality, fast performance, and support for all languages, combined with the functionality provided by our embedded Internet technologies means we can offer our customers a more compelling interactive television solution." "The ability to quickly generate high-quality text, fine-tuned for television screens, will be a key ingredient in the success of interactive television," said Paul Trevithick, president of Bitstream. "By working with Spyglass, we gain access to their world-class customer base and can create solutions with Spyglasodel, in the device. It is designed for non-PC graphics devices such as televisions, set-top boxes and smart phones. This product can either be bundled with the Spyglass communications industry. Bitstream licenses itr Web publishing. Bitstream also offers on-demand publishing 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 http://www.bitstream.com. About Spyglass Spyglass (NASDAQ: SPYG) provides Internet expertise, software and services for making devices work with the Web. Particularly active in the cable and satellite television, wireless telecommunications, consumer electronics and office equipment markets, Spyglass solutions are used by market-leading companies including GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) , Motorola, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Nokia, Thomson Consumer Electronics (RCA See RCA connector and video/TV history. ) and Xerox. Spyglass headquarters are located at 1240 East Diehl Rd., Naperville, Ill., 60563; phone: 1.630.245.6512; fax: 1.630.245.6693; press email inquiries: aingalls@spyglass.com; Web site: http://www.spyglass.com. (March 1999) Spyglass and the Spyglass logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Spyglass, Inc., in the United States and other countries. Mosaic is a trademark of the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
T2K Time 2 Kill (gaming clan) are trademarks, of Bitstream Inc. (Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.) This release contains information about management's future expectations, plans and prospects that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors that are discussed in the company's annual report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended September 30, 1998, which is on file with the SEC. |
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