Bitstream Releases BREW-Compatible Versions of its ThunderHawk Mobile Browser and Font Rendering Plug-ins.ThunderHawk, 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. ([R]) and Panorama([R]) Now Available For All Qualcomm BREW[R] Enabled Mobile Devices CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- 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) a software development company with core competencies in browsing, font and publishing technologies, announced today that it will be making its ThunderHawk 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 and Font Fusion([R]) and Panorama([R]) font rendering plug-ins available to BREW carriers, device manufacturers, and developers. ThunderHawk, the fastest mobile browser on the market today, will now be available on the hundreds of mobile devices that run on the BREW platform. The Font Fusion and Panorama plug-ins will now enable BREW devices to efficiently and quickly display the highest quality text available in any global marketplace. ThunderHawk, Font Fusion, and Panorama for BREW will be demonstrated at Bitstream booth 308 at the BREW 2008 Conference, May 28-30, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , CA. "By making Bitstream technology available via BREW, we've taken an indispensable step in keeping pace with evolving trends in the delivery of news and other information," said Anna Chagnon, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Bitstream, Inc. "Today's advanced and feature-rich mobile devices, combined with the increasingly widespread dissemination of news on mobile platforms, adds up to a real market need for the agile, efficient browsing and font technologies that Bitstream provides." BREW provides a comprehensive, industry-proven solution for the development and delivery of advanced wireless data across virtually every media category - from full-track music, ringtones and wallpapers to streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. , video, navigation and games. It offers rich marketing and merchandizing capabilities both on and off device that allow for frequent updates and efficient catalog management, as well as flexible pricing options from subscriptions to micro-payments. ThunderHawk is a lightweight mobile browser that provides a full desktop-quality 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. browsing experience on BREW-enabled handsets. Built on Bitstream core mobile technology, ThunderHawk enhances user experience by loading web pages appreciably faster than competing mobile browsers and enabling users to find and read information more quickly and easily via patented navigation and font rendering technologies. ThunderHawk's key features include: * Consistent, secure, full desktop-quality HTML Web browsing experience without repurposing, reformatting, or removing any content * Content is dynamically adapted to the actual screen size of both high and low end devices * Text columns are dynamically fitted to the width of the mobile phone screen for fast, fluid reading * A patented "Zoom In/Zoom Out" magnifier that enables subscribers to find and read information quickly * Automatic delivery of RSS feeds to a mobile device without the need to visit Web pages * One click to call any phone number on any Webpage directly from the browser Font Fusion is designed to support handsets, operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , software applications, Web applications, low-resolution screen devices, multimedia servers, high-definition television screens (HDTVs), set-top boxes, printers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other embedded systems and Internet appliances. Font Fusion's key features include: * The fastest font rendering engine currently available * High-quality scalable text output * Dynamic scaling with SmartScale scales extended characters such as accents and descenders to fit within a device's preset bounding box * Small footprint - only 16-40k or RAM is required for Latin fonts * Lossless See lossless compression. (algorithm, compression) lossless - A term describing a data compression algorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression. Unix compress and GNU gzip perform lossless compression. font compression * Support for all font formats, including Font Fusion's proprietary stroke-based CJK (character) CJK - In internationalisation, a collective term for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The characters of these languages are all partly based on Han characters (i.e., "hanzi" or "kanji"), which require 16-bit character encodings. fonts * Optimized cache management * Text effects including glow, shadow, embossed em·boss tr.v. em·bossed, em·boss·ing, em·boss·es 1. To mold or carve in relief: emboss a design on a coin. 2. and engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. * Support for 32-bit Unicode for interpreting large font files as CJK with extended CMAPs for 32-bit Unicode values * Additional support for CID Cid or Cid Campeador (sĭd, Span. thēth kämpāäthōr`) [Span.,=lord conqueror], d. 1099, Spanish soldier and national hero, whose real name was Rodrigo (or Ruy) Díaz de Vivar. keyed fonts enables rendering of CID keyed fonts Bitstream Panorama is a universal text composition engine that enables developers to draw strings of characters and layout complex lines of text, by integrating text composition, positioning and rendering. Featuring a high-level application program interface (API) to layout, position, substitute and render characters in all languages including such complex scripts as Arabic and Indian, Panorama is a comprehensive text composition solution for international developers. Panorama's key features include: * State-of-the-art global text composition * Small footprint - only 80-140k of RAM is required * Range-based font mapping for fonts based on Unicode ranges * Font linking - supports font substitution (even at run time). * Style-based font mapping intelligently picks an existing stylized styl·ize tr.v. styl·ized, styl·iz·ing, styl·iz·es 1. To restrict or make conform to a particular style. 2. To represent conventionally; conventionalize. font or applies the algorithmic style. When two font variants, regular and italic for example, are installed, a user selects italic and that font is picked. But if the italic font is not installed, Panorama enables the regular font to be made to italic algorithmically * 32-bit Unicode support * Support for enhanced text view and editing with: [TABLE OMITTED] 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 messaging software 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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