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Visto Announces New Comprehensive Wireless Email Solution for Wireless Operators
(3GSM World Congress, Cannes, France, February 23, 2004)– Visto Corporation, the leading provider of personal and corporate mobile messaging solutions to wireless operators for the broadest set of mobile device platforms, today announced Visto Mobile Personal Edition™. Visto Mobile Personal Edition is a flexible set of custom-branded applications and services that let wireless operators provide subscribers with real-time, secure, remote access to their corporate and personal email, PIM and other files directly from their wireless devices. With the Visto Mobile Personal Edition mobile operators can address a broad range of market segments that include individual subscribers, SOHO (Small Office, Home office), and mobile professionals working for medium and large enterprises. It can be integrated with the wireless operator's networks so that operators can effectively manage billing, user-provisioning and customer support.
Visto Mobile Personal Edition provides wireless access to Microsoft ® Exchange/ and Outlook™, and Lotus Domino/Notes corporate email, calendar, address book and desktop-accessible files, as well as to multiple personal/Internet (POP3) mailboxes. Visto supports all popular wireless PDAs/phones using Palm OS (including the new Handspring / palmOne Treo 600), Windows Mobile (Pocket PC and Smartphone, including Windows Mobile 2003), and Symbian platforms, J2ME devices, as well as enhanced wireless phones with WAP browsers. Visto also supports IMAP and SyncML-based email clients on mobile devices.
"Visto Mobile Personal Edition provides the single most requested wireless data application - wireless email and PIM, and combines it in a complete solution for wireless operators to brand and deploy quickly," said Brian Bogosian, chairman, president and CEO. "Visto Mobile Personal Edition is a sure-fire method for increasing average revenue per subscriber and for mitigating churn issues among wireless operators worldwide."
"Wireless Operators are clearly targeting the mobile business user and prosumer for value-added services, including wireless email on the broadly used smartphones," commented Lars Vestergaard, Research Manager, IDC European Wireless & Mobile Communications . "Visto Mobile Personal Edition matches those requirements exactly by offering a push email experience, along with wireless access to updated calendar and contacts, on all popular email platforms."
Visto Mobile Personal Edition is a significant update to Visto's highly successful WirelessInbox solution, deployed through nine wireless operators worldwide. Visto Mobile Personal Edition provides real time access to data, along with over the air synchronization between desktop and smart phones, giving subscribers a solution unmatched by any other wireless messaging solutions provider. For example, subscribers can look-up a colleague's contact and incorporate it into the device's address book without needing to synchronize the entire data set into the phone. Additionally, users are alerted to new email as it occurs, they can access emails, contacts, calendar and view attachments, and respond to meeting requests. For maximum efficiency while off the wireless network, subscribers can also view emails, reply or compose new emails to be sent upon next connection, using their smart devices.
Visto Mobile Personal Edition is already in use at Rogers AT&T Wireless in Canada, Canada's leading wireless communications service provider, branded as Rogers AT&T Wireless' Enhanced Wireless Desktop.
Visto Mobile Personal Edition version 4.3 is available directly to wireless operators from Visto. Visto has been invited to demonstrate its various wireless email / PIM solutions at the 3GSM World Congress in several booths, including those of Microsoft, PalmSource, Symbian, and Nokia Series 60/ Sendo, as well as by appointment with selected device manufacturers and wireless operators. Call +1-866-82-VISTO for more information or visit www.visto.com About Visto Corporation
Established in 1996, Visto is the leading provider of mobile messaging solutions to mobile operators for the broadest set of mobile device platforms. Visto Mobile Access Solution, Server Edition, provides departmental and enterprise access to corporate email. Visto Mobile Personal Edition is a flexible set of custom-branded applications and services that let mobile operators provide subscribers with real-time, secure, remote access to their corporate and personal email, PIM and other files directly from their mobile devices. Both solutions include message push for immediate email notification, and are well-suited to the "converged" mobile PDAs/phones using Palm OS, Windows Mobile (Pocket PC and Smartphone), J2ME and Symbian platforms as well as enhanced mobile WAP/Web browser-enabled mobile devices. Visto's solutions are available from Visto and through mobile operators worldwide, including AT&T Wireless, Bell Mobility, KPN, Manitoba Telecom Services, Nextel Communications, Inc., Rogers AT&T Wireless, SaskTel Mobility, SmarTone and TELUS Mobility. For more information, visit www.visto.com .
Visto is backed by Oak Technology Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Vantage Point Venture Partners, Rustic Canyon Ventures, Allegis Capital, Blueprint Ventures, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Bessemer Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates and Walden VC.