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Visto Delivers Push Email On New Motorola Q
Visto Mobile and New Pedigree of Cutting-edge Devices Serve Mass Business Market
Redwood City, Calif., June 21, 2006 – Visto Corporation, a leading global provider of secure push email, today announced the availability of its Visto Mobile™ push email service on the Motorola Q (MOTO Q), available exclusively to TELUS clients across Canada. The combination of Visto Mobile and the MOTO Q provides business workers with a highly stylized device that delivers instantaneous access to email, contacts, calendaring and other critical business data.
By collaborating with leading handset manufacturers, Visto supports the devices that represent the cutting edge of mobile phone design and functionality. With support for “true push email” on more than 100 of the world’s leading handsets, Visto is opening up the mobile email market for today’s on-the-go professional. Through its partnerships with mobile operators, Visto is able to provide a complete offering and simplified user experience that will entice more companies to take advantage of the productivity gains associated with mobile email.
“As we continue to see uptake of Visto Mobile with the world’s largest mobile operators, device choice and an intuitive user interface have become the key ingredients for attracting and retaining business users,” said Jean Tripier, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Visto Corporation. “The MOTO Q is the ultimate mobile email device that is high quality in both design and functionality and offers organizations a clear choice among this new breed of email-enabled handsets. By partnering with TELUS and leading handset manufacturers, we are working to offer the ultimate mobile email experience in an all-in-one service offering.”
In addition to secure access to email, calendar, contacts, and secure corporate data, Visto Mobile works seamlessly with the applications that are native to the MOTO Q, providing full access to attachments as well as other key business applications. All data is communicated securely with Visto’s end-to-end secure architecture based on AES and SSL encryption.
Business Inbox, powered by Visto MobileTM is initially available from TELUS on the recently launched MOTO Q. For more information, visit telusmobility.com.
About Visto Mobile with ConstantSync™
Visto Mobile is Visto's carrier-grade platform for wireless access to corporate and personal e-mail, calendar, contacts and other corporate data. Visto Mobile utilizes ConstantSync, a real-time push technology that ensures valuable corporate data is always up to date and never stored outside the firewall. The complete platform comprises server, desktop, and device software, providing a complete mobile email/PIM solution for wireless operators to rapidly deploy as their uniquely branded solution for their subscribers. The platform provides push e-mail delivery to any mobile device over 2.5G and 3G networks, FIPS 140-compliant, end-to-end AES encryption and an optimized network architecture that requires only 20 percent of the bandwidth of SyncML or IMAP-based solutions. Visto's solutions work on the broadest set of wireless devices that include Treo600/650 with PalmOS, Microsoft Smart Phone devices, Microsoft PPC integrated communications devices, Sony-Ericsson P900/P910 with Symbian UIQ, Symbian S60, S80 devices from Nokia and Java Enabled devices.
About Visto
Visto delivers the leading global platform for mobile operators to provide wireless push email to the broadest set of mobile devices. Visto’s open solution enables email for the mass market, targeting large enterprises, small businesses and mobile professionals. The company’s patented Visto Mobile™ platform with ConstantSync™ technology works in real time with POP3, IMAP, Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino email solutions for personal to enterprise use, providing maximum control and flexibility for the operator and choice for the customer. Visto’s customized, brandable solutions are available through mobile operators worldwide including Cingular, Elisa, KPN, Lenovo Group Ltd, SmarTone, SFR, Sprint-Nextel, TELUS, Turkcell and the Vodafone Group.
Established in 1996 and headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, with offices in Seattle, London, Rome, Paris, Toronto, Tokyo, Beijing and Tianjin, China, Visto is backed by Oak Investment Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DFJ ePlanet Ventures, VantagePoint Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Rustic Canyon Ventures, Allegis Capital and Blueprint Ventures. For more information, visit www.visto.com or email sales@visto.com.