Exactly one year after its public debut, Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced a new version of the BOLT™ Mobile Browser, which makes the lightning fast uncompromised browsing experience for phones of all types even better with new features and enhancements. The 1.7 release of BOLT offers increased functionality and usability, with new features including direct Twitter integration, Spanish and Russian language support, an enhanced download manager, increased streaming video features and the ability to run widgets. Bitstream is showcasing BOLT 1.7 to OEMs and carriers at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 15 to February 18 in booth number 1A70.
As BOLT marks its first anniversary, the acclaimed mobile browser has surpassed 4 million users, streamed over 135 million minutes of video (equivalent to 256 years if played back to back), served more than 512 million pages - as many as 3 million pages per day, and downloaded more than 132 terabytes of data - an amount that's double the size of the entire digital collection of the U.S. Library of Congress.
"The past year was both exciting and intense as BOLT's developers learned what features were most important to its users, and how desired features would mesh with manufacturing trends in mobile handsets and the evolution of the Internet," said Anna Magliocco-Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream. "Before we launched BOLT we knew that Bitstream engineers and developers built a remarkable foundation on which we could continue to evolve the BOLT mobile browser, and the positive support and constant feedback we received from a great many of our 4 million helped us prioritize the features and enhancements in each successive release. But as excited as we were for the first year of BOLT, the next year promises to be more dynamic as we plan to introduce features that took longer to engineer and we add more handset manufacturers to the roster of those preloading BOLT on mobile phones." International Localization With BOLT being used by people in more than 100 countries, Bitstream has added language support so more users can use BOLT with a user interface in their own language. The 1.7 version of BOLT now includes options for English, Spanish and Russian languages. Widgets Although BOLT already runs web-based applications written in Ajax, Javascript and other Web programming languages, such as the popular Facebook game Mafia Wars and Google Docs, BOLT 1.7 is adding widget functionality. Now in beta, BOLT widgets allow users to install small self-contained Web applications that run directly from within BOLT. Because these widgets are installed directly within BOLT they load and execute faster than website-based applications, giving users a wider variety of utility for their mobile phones. BOLT users can discover, select and install specific Web apps through a BOLT Widget Gallery. BOLT's widgets are written as standard W3C widgets (www.w3.org/TR/widgets/), a standard with broad industry support. Twitter Integration One of the new enhancements to BOLT is an easier way to post tweets to Twitter. BOLT 1.7 has integrated Twitter capabilities into the browser itself. Now users can post tweets directly from BOLT while they browse the Web. Usability Enhancements BOLT 1.7 now features keypad shortcuts that make zooming in and out of Web content as simple as a click of a button. Users can now scale text and images without having to change the zoom presets in their preferences.
BOLT is the only mobile browser for all types of mobile phones to support streaming video from multiple video sharing websites such as YouTube, Yahoo, Google, RuTube, MySpace and more. Now users can watch videos posted in CNN and ESPN, as well as watch embedded YouTube videos on any website.
For users on networks that support socket connections, BOLT v1.7 now offers automatic socket support resulting in a 15 percent speed increase for most users. Previous versions of BOLT offered socket support that had to be manually configured by the user.
Keywords: Bitstream Inc., Computers, Entertainment, Internet, Mobile Entertainment, Networks, Other Technology, Programming Language, Software, Technology, Telecommunications, World Wide Web
This article was prepared by Internet Weekly News editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2010, Internet Weekly News via VerticalNews.com.
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