Bitstream BOLT comes to locals

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today it has selected location-aware mobile search expert, xAD (www.xad.com), as its local search partner for the award winning BOLT mobile browser. Through this partnership, locally relevant user searches from within BOLT will now be provided with xAD results, specific to the user’s location search terms. 

“Local searches account for a huge portion of the searches from mobile handsets,” says Bitstream director of product management, Ritu Varma. “By leveraging the local search results provided by xAD, the BOLT browser becomes an even more useful tool for our users.”
BOLT users don’t have to do a thing to start benefiting from the enhanced local search results provided through xAD. A BOLT user simply types a search term into the existing BOLT search bar, and if the search term contains something locally relevant, for example “San Diego restaurant,” then BOLT will automatically serve the user the enhanced local xAD search results.

Bitstream has rolled out local search powered by xAD to its users in the U.S. initially, with plans to expand the localized search capabilities out to Germany, U.K. and France in the near term.
xAD delivers locally relevant search results  all over the country, and with a network of over one million advertisers has become the second largest source of mobile local search traffic in the U.S. Thanks to xAD’s LocalAdXchange, the company’s network returns highly relevant local targeted results 80 percent of the time – more than double any other provider.  xAD local search results deliver additional value by providing more than just a sponsored listing; xAD local results include reviews, offers, maps, directions, and more.

The award winning BOLT browser has been installed more than 20 million times in over 200 countries around the world, and leads the industry as the most advanced and fully featured mobile browser available for phones of all types.  BOLT is a free download for people using mobile phones that run Java ME (also known as J2ME) applications – approximately 75 percent of the world’s estimated 4 billion mobile phones – as well as BlackBerry smartphones.  

BOLT is available to download for free at http://boltbrowser.com. 

About BOLT®
The acclaimed BOLT mobile browser has the most faithful rendering of Web pages of any browser in its class. This fast mobile browser quickly and accurately displays Web pages on mobile phones just as they would appear on desktop computers. BOLT is the only browser for mobile phones of all types to support streaming video from popular media sharing sites such as YouTube and MySpace. Based on the same WebKit rendering engine used by the iPhone’s Safari and Android’s Chrome browsers, BOLT is compatible with the majority of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones. BOLT features a patented split-screen viewing mode, intuitive keystroke shortcuts and copy/paste functionality, and offers a user-friendly, feature-rich mobile browsing experience for even entry-level mobile phones. Download BOLT for free at http://boltbrowser.com – the mobile Internet has never looked this good on your phone.

About Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. develops software technologies and applications for the graphic art and mobile communications industries. Bitstream’s award-winning fonts and font technologies enable device manufacturers and application developers to render the highest quality text in any language, on any device, at any resolution. The company’s MyFonts brand is the world’s leading provider of fonts to consumers. Bitstream’s Pageflex brand enables marketers to easily produce customized communications in print, email and online. The company’s latest offering is the BOLT mobile browser, which has been installed by millions of users worldwide since its release in February 2009.  For more information visit www.bitstream.com.
About xAD, Inc.
xAD connects local businesses to mobile consumers. xAD is the largest local mobile search and advertising network in the United States. The company’s patented mobile optimization technology identifies who, what, and where an end user is, and serves the most relevant click, call and check in based advertising. The xAD team has years of experience in developing mobile search algorithms, and has successfully applied this knowledge to unlock the potential of the local mobile market. xAD publishers and advertisers benefit from the scale and reach of the LocalAdXchangeTM platform that manages billions of search and ad requests with the largest combined network of more than one million local and national performance-based advertisers. For more information on xAD, visit www.xAD.com.

Bitstream Opens Office in India

Bitstream Inc., (NASDAQ: BITS), a leading software development company with core competencies in browsing, font and publishing technologies, announced the recent addition of an office in Noida, India as a major step in its 2008 plans for globalization. The new location will be staffed by twenty employees who formerly served as consultants to the Company.


"On the heels of our record-level revenues and earnings for the 2007 fiscal year, combined with market demand, it is a logical next step for us to expand our presence in the rest of the world,” said Anna Chagnon, President and Chief Executive Officer at Bitstream, Inc. “Our India team will help our development teams throughout North America, Europe and Asia leverage the development synergies between our business units, assist us in securing new opportunities and provide regional support to our existing global customer base. We are pleased to add these employees to our team and look forward to growing our work in the Indic market for all of our businesses.”


Bitstream’s product lines include:

Font Technology
Bitstream is a leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs. The company delivers complete text composition and font rendering solutions for consumer electronics devices, mobile phones, PDAs, printers, set-top boxes, interactive TV devices, graphics applications, and embedded systems. Bitstream products are small, fast, and portable. They include btX2, Bitstream Panorama, Font Fusion, TrueDoc, and TDIS (TrueDoc Imaging System). 
  
Fonts
Bitstream delivers high-quality font solutions for developers, ad agencies, graphic designers, desktop publishers, corporations, small businesses, and home office users. Its world-renowned library includes over 1,000 high-quality fonts in OpenType, TrueType, and PostScript Type 1 formats for Windows, the Macintosh, Unix, and Linux.

BOLT
BOLT provides a superior desktop-like user experience by handling HTML Websites and real-world browsing activities with speed and ease. Built with Bitstream core mobile technology, ThunderHawk offers the superior ability to fit Website information on both high-end and mass-market handsets. The browser's client/server technology and highly scalable architecture allows mobile operators to offer a fully branded browsing solution to millions of users worldwide.


Pageflex
The Pageflex product line is the technology of choice for variable publishing. Pageflex offers unparalleled design capability with its patented flex technology. Variable pages can literally redesign themselves on the fly. For document customization over the Web, Pageflex is the clear leader with its online editing technology, the most interactive editing experience you can have with a Web browser.

Job Title - Project Manager for BOLT project at Bitstream India

Experience - 6-10 Years

Job Location - Noida

Key Skills - C, C++ and  should be able work in a multi - programming language environment. Capable of managing the modules and resources with excellent communication skills, Project Management, Customer relationship, Mobile domain

Education Requirement  -  B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA

Job Description - Join our innovative, bright and talented team of BOLT Browser at Bitstream India. Our diverse customer and user base uses BOLT browser in nearly every kind of mobile device, from J2ME to BREW, Android etc.

As a Project Manager working at the Bitstream India Pvt Ltd group you will manage a small team of engineers and web standards experts. You will provide guidance and ensure good engineering, quality, and support processes are followed. You will work closely with the BOLT group at Bitstream’s headquarters in the U.S. to determine tasks and schedules and devise solutions for customers. You will track project schedules and ensure deadlines are met. You will also be responsible for the team’s performance reviews, as well as hiring.

·         Creating business processes with respect to R&D functions and project management

·         Training and guiding R&D team on processes and quality assurance tools and processes.

·         Report generation for all the R&D projects

·         Project review with senior management

·         Statistical process control, Defect tracking and performing root cause analysis

·         Understanding of product development lifecycle and related processes in R&D environment.

·         Business process re-engineering and process formulation

·         Identify and document the support required from various functions, project timelines, constraints and resources required

·         Adjust project planning, as required, to include approved changes after obtaining required approval

·         Conduct lessons learned session and develop recommendations for continuous improvement.

Desired Profile -

·         Communicate and coordinate among project stakeholders, team members (across multiple locations) and with the management team concerning product delivery and release schedules.

·         Manage project initiatives including the staffing, task assignments and tracking of projects

·         Responsible for planning, tracking and delivery of the software releases and customer facing deliverables.

·         Able to understand the technical requirements of the software development project. Perform high-level manpower and resource estimation for the project.

·         Interface with senior management for project plans and delivery dates. Escalate any issues to the senior management well in time.

·         Knowledge and use of different communication tools for remote meetings, coordination and issues tracking.

Level of experience -

·         5+ years of experience in Project Management. Ideal would be 8-10 years in software release planning and coordination.

·         5+ years of Experience in project planning, effort estimation and risk management.

·         Excellent communication, coordination and facilitation skills. Should have experience working with team of 10-15 developers for projects or products in mobile domain.

·         Telecom carrier/operator business experience a must. Relevant experience in mobile application vendor domain for 2+ years.

·         Hands on experience on Mobile application development experience a plus.

·         Good spoken and written communication skills.

·         Strong Knowledge about Microsoft Project, Excel, Word.

Please mail your resume to careerindia[AT]bitstream{dot}come

BOLT makes the mobile Web more accessible to the masses with free support for nine Indic languages

NOIDA, India – June 21, 2011 – Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced that the Indic language version of its acclaimed BOLT mobile browser is now available as a free download for end users. With this announcement, the estimated 1.3 billion people living in India and surrounding regions will be able to enjoy the BOLT browser in nine Indic languages, even if their handset does not natively support Indic language characters.

Previously BOLT with Indic language support was only available through carriers and OEMs who preloaded the BOLT browser on supported handsets. Now end users worldwide can download the BOLT browser with Indic language support for free at www.boltbrowser.com.
Already the most fully-featured mobile browser built for phones of all types, BOLT offers users the widest variety of streaming audio and video available in a mobile browser, supporting both Flash and HTML5 video, and also includes many advanced features and social network integration, such as Twitter and Facebook widgets, often surpassing features available on desktop browsers.
BOLT perfectly renders Indic text on Web pages with support for the following Indic languages:

• Hindi
• Bengali
• Gurumukh
• Telugu
• Tamil
• Kannada
• Gujarat
• Malayalam
• Oriya

"Up until today, several million people from India and its surrounding regions have been using our free English language version," said Ritu Varma, Bitstream director of product management. "Being able to provide BOLT in the native languages of these millions of users is a huge breakthrough, especially given that many of our users' phones don't natively support Indic characters. BOLT, powered by Font Technology that Bitstream is globally famous for, is able to bring the complex Indic characters to these handsets with remarkably low over the air data usage so that our users can enjoy Indic Websites and content from their phones just as they would appear on a desktop computer. This is a big advance for mobile browsing in India and its surrounding regions and BOLT is the only mobile browser that can deliver it."
Bitstream will be demonstrating the Indic version of BOLT and previewing its forthcoming Android version at CommunicAsia (www.communicasia.com) exhibition and conference, being held 21-24 June in Singapore. To arrange for a meeting and private demonstration, contact the BOLT team at boltsales@bitstream.com.

Visit BOLT at The 2010 India Telecom Conference

Visit BOLT at The 2010 India Telecom Conference!
Next week, Bitstream will be showing our latest products and services at The India Telecom Exhibition 2010 being held 9-11 December 2010 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.  We hope you will join us! You can find us at Hall 14, booth 1427. During the conference, Bitstream will be highlighting: BOLT Mobile Browser BOLT is the perfect mobile browser for handset manufacturers and mobile network operators who want to offer the best possible Internet experience for users of the widest range of mobile devices.  BOLT’s best-in-industry compression capabilities, its small package, and the seamless way it integrates cloud services with carrier infrastructure enable you transform mobile phones of all types into powerful Internet devices.   At India Telecom, we’ll be demonstrating the exciting new features in latest version of BOLT, version 2.3. Font Technology from Bitstream Bitstream's font rendering and layout engines—Font Fusion and Panorama—offer unparalled text composition in all the world's languages on a wide range of devices. Font Fusion provides the highest quality, fastest text output on any device, at any resolution. Its small footprint is particularly well-suited for mobile devices.  Bitstream Panorama is a global text composition engine that enables developers and OEMs to layout, position, substitute and render characters in all of the world's languages (Indic, Arabic and more) via a single API.   Font Fusion and Panorama solutions are also available on various platforms as Android and BREW as frameworks and plugins, enabling the developers to support any font format, faster and accurate hinted output and support for complex languages. Schedule an Appointment If you are not going to the conference, but would like more information on the BOLT Mobile Browser, email us at boltsales AT bitstream For more details on our Font Technology products, email us at oemsales AT bitstream. Thank you and w look forward to seeing you at the Exhibition! Best regards, BOLT Team www.bitstream.com
BOLT IS A PART OF THE BITSTREAM FAMILY OF SOFTWARE PRODUCTS For additional information, please visit www.bitstream.com 500 Nickerson Road | Marlborough, MA 01752

Android Developer opportunity at Bitstream India

Job Description -  Bitstream India Pvt Ltd, a leading software development company that is a subsidiary of Bitstream Inc., is looking for self-motivated, committed team player to join our BOLT team. We are looking for the innovative talent who can work with Bitstream BOLT team at India and contribute to the evolving BOLT browser.

Experience - 1 - 4 Years

Job Location - Noida

Key Skills - Android, C, C++, J2ME, Symbian, algorithms, operating systems, gcc.

Education Requirement  -  B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA/M.Sc

Company Profile - We are the R&D team of Bitstream Inc. (www.bitstream.com) and work in the fields like font rendering & layout engines, wireless browsers and more. We create the code that beats the limitations of speed; the flexibility and speed of our font rendering & layout solutions can be measured from the fact that they are used both on embedded devices and desktops and on a wide variety of Platforms. Our solutions in the field of font rendering & layout caters to wide list of customers like Sony, Motorola, Samsung, EA, Adobe, Cisco, Philips and more.

Bitstream Inc. is a publicly traded company and is quoted on the NASDAQ stock market (NASDAQ: BITS). We are the R&D team of Bitstream in India, working on release products over variety of platforms. We have the technology, skilled personnel, tools and experience that is needed from a reliable business partner. We are equipped with all the essential hardware and software operating systems and our lab environment is flexible, that is, we can alter the testing lab's configuration to adapt to the ever changing technological trends. This position requires development on some of our premier products:

BOLT - World's fastest web browser for the mobile phones. This product provides a familiar desktop browsing experience on the mobile. You would be working on web standards for the world's leading and fastest web browser. For more information please visit http://boltbrowser.com

Bitstream Panorama - Bitstream Panorama is a small, fast, portable text composition engine that enables developers to draw strings of characters and lay out complex lines of text. It supports international languages, including Arabic and Indic scripts.

Font Fusion - This is world's fastest and smallest Font Rendering engine capable of rendering all fonts type like TTF, OTF, etc on almost all the platforms like Mac, unix, linux, windows, and embedded.

Pageflex - The Pageflex product line is the technology of choice for variable publishing. Pageflex offers unparalleled design capability with its patented flex technology.

Font Development - We develop state of the art fonts with all complexities for embedded systems.

Desired Profile -
* Should have strong C, Data Structure and algorithms skills.

* Hands-on experience in programming on Android, well versed with performance enhancement, graphics engine and UI controls.

* Knowledge of Dalvik and internal Android working will be a plus.

* Should have worked on GCC/VC++ or any 32 bit professional platform.

* You would be working on web standards for the world's leading and fastest web browser. Also, you are required to work on world's smallest and fastest font rastering engines for embedded devices on multiple platforms (Android, Symbian,WinCE,Unix,Mac, Windows)

** Freshers need not apply. **


Please send you resume to careerindia AT bitstream.com

Senior UX Design Engineer opening at Bitstream India

About the Company
Bitstream inc. (www.bitstream.com ) is  software development company with market leading products in the areas  of mobile browsing, font technology, and digital publishing. We provide  solutions to to some of the world’s most demanding enterprises, OEMs and  mobile operators.  Headquartered in Massachusetts, USA, Bitstream has  employees and offices across the globe.

Bitstream’s BOLT mobile browser (www.boltbrowser.com) has been installed by millions of users  worldwide since its release in February 2009. BOLT delivers a  revolutionary, breakthrough web browsing experience to mobile phones  ranging from Smartphones to feature phones and legacy devices. Built on a  WebKit based architecture, the BOLT browser  comes with blazing fast  speeds and the best data compression technology available in the market  today. BOLT is tightly integrated with social networking sites such as  Facebook and Twitter and allows users to videos from popular sites such  as Youtube, ESPN and many others. BOLT has earned a number of industry  accolades, including

•     Winner of   “Mobile Applications – Entertainment / Social  Networking” category at the fifth annual CTIA Emerging Technology  (E-Tech) Awards, MARCH 2010,

•     Mobile Merit Awards 2010: Best Overall Consumer Mobile Application and Best Service Delivery Platform.

•     PC Magazine 4 star rating (out of 5)
... and many more... 
At Bitstream, we pride ourselves in working on cutting edge technologies  and creating innovative products that impact millions of users  worldwide. We believe in providing the best mobile Internet experience  to our customers and are looking for people who share our passion for  building a world-class product. If you are motivated to be a part of the team that is constantly improving how people access Internet from their  mobile phones, we would like to hear from you.

Main Job Functions:
We are currently hiring for the position of Senior UX Design Engineer . Based out  of our R&D center in Noida,  India, this role will have the following job  functions:
 ·      Responsible for creating and enhancing BOLT user interface design and user experience in accordance with BOLT brand tone and identity.
·      Responsible for providing a harmonized user experience across BOLT product portfolio
·      Manage and lead all user interface , usability testing and user experience initiatives.
·      Must demonstrate solid understanding of user centered design process with hands-on experience in design and usability testing of mobile applications UI on J2ME/BREW platforms. Blackberry, Android and Smartphone UI experience a plus. 
·      Perform user testing and create reusable design patterns  across a portfolio of products.
·      Ability to innovate and produce quick UI prototypes. Knowledge of some form of UI prototyping software is a must.
·      Own the quality of the final products end-to-end user experience

Level of experience:

·      Have a solid understanding of mobile applications and technologies.
·      6-8  years of experience designing consumer focused mobile client application UI on feature phones and smartphones.
·      At least 2 years of Mobile UX experience.
·      Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment as well as a willingness to learn on the job.
·      Strong verbal and written communication skills are critical to the role as the individual will need to articulate design reasoning to engineers and  other UI designers  


Qualifications:
·      Bachelors degree  in computer science or equivalent required. Masters is a plus.
·      Specialization in  visual arts, graphic design, mobile user interface research or other areas related to mobile UI design will be a huge plus.



Please send you resume to careerindia AT bitstream.com