Curl Corporation Licenses Font Fusion From Bitstream; Curl Signs Multi-Year Licensing Agreement.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2000 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) and Curl Corporation announced today that Curl has licensed 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. , Bitstream's next-generation font-rasterizing engine, under a multi-year licensing agreement. Font Fusion is the convergence of Bitstream's T2K T2K Tempest 2000 (game; sequel to Tempest) T2K Time 2 Kill (gaming clan) (R) and TrueDoc(R) technology in an advanced, object-oriented architecture. Curl Corporation will incorporate Font Fusion as a component of its Internet infrastructure software, now under development. Curl's technology will enable the connection of Web content and deliver a media-rich, interactive and tailored experience for end users. It also will allow Web site operators to reduce their communication costs by facilitating client-side processing. Font Fusion provides developers with full font fidelity and high-quality typographic See typography. output at any resolution on any device, while maintaining the integrity of the original character shapes. In addition, Font Fusion performs well in memory-constrained environments. For example, a complete traditional Chinese TrueType font with over 13,500 characters can occupy as much as 8MB. With Font Fusion, the same font occupies less than 0.5MB. Font Fusion is designed for 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 high-definition television (HDTV) Any system producing significantly greater picture resolution than that of the ordinary 525-line (625-line in Europe) television screen. Conventional television transmits signals in analog form. screens (HDTVs), set-top boxes The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. , continuous tone printers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other 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. and Internet and wireless appliances. "Part of Curl's strategy is to partner with leading technology providers like Bitstream," said Bob Young, 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 Curl. "The high quality and versatility of Font Fusion will be a major asset to anyone using Curl products." "Font Fusion's extreme compactness and high-quality text rendering were critical reasons for Curl to choose Bitstream," said Anna Chagnon, president of Bitstream. "Curl's technology promotes an interactive relationship between users and the Internet, and creating extremely readable characters is a very important part of that user experience. We are thrilled that Font Fusion will be a component of Curl's technology model." About Bitstream, the Internet Font Company Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs for a wide variety of markets. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc(R), WebFont(TM), and Font Fusion(TM) technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of Internet appliances, wireless devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems, printers, and personal digital assistants. Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com Inc. (http://www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. Bitstream is 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. . Find out more about Bitstream at http://www.bitstream.com. About Curl Corporation Curl Corporation develops Internet infrastructure software that enables the creation of highly interactive and visually interesting applications and Web sites. Curl's client-side processing technology significantly boosts performance and improves the online experience for end users who access the Web to purchase goods, conduct business or simply to be entertained. Because Curl-Connected(SM) content allows for interactivity of applications and for faster downloads of rich media such as graphics, animation and video, it helps organizations reduce traffic costs and build "stickier" Web sites without the increased content sizes often associated with rich media. Located in Cambridge MA, Curl was founded in 1998 by a team of luminaries from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, Laboratory of Computer Science. Curl's technology grew out of a $5 million DARPA DARPA: see Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) The name given to the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency during the 1980s. It was later renamed back to ARPA. grant that was also used to fund the World Wide Web Consortium. For more information, visit http://www.curl.com. Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion and WebFont are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. T2K is a registered trademark of Type Solutions, Inc., a Bitstream company. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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