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MobileVillage Awards Visto Highest Gold Star Honors for Visto Mobile 5.5 and CEO Brian Bogosian
Visto Corporation Wins Top Industry Award For Product Excellence and Leadership for Third Consecutive Year
Redwood City, Calif., November 1, 2006 — Visto Corporation, a leading global provider of secure and easy-to-use mobile email, today announced that it has won two Gold Mobile Star Awards™ from MobileVillage®, the 14-year leader in market development and news services about mobile technology.
Visto received its first Gold Mobile Star Award for Visto Mobile 5.5™, a breakthrough mobile email service that offers a host of new ease of use, security and convenience features that liberates busy professionals and makes it easier for companies to be more responsive to customers, partners and each other. In addition, Visto’s chairman, president and CEO, Brian Bogosian, was recognized with a Gold Star Award for his visionary leadership and strategic guidance as the Leader of a Mobile Solutions Company.
“The Mobile Star Awards program has grown along with the mobile industry,” says MobileVillage Editor Gary Thayer. “This year we saw hundreds of entries in about 60 categories, and nearly 1,000 people took the time to cast votes. The Mobile Star Awards are unique in that the judges are Go Mobile® readers. These people have a great knowledge of mobile products and success stories, and eager to share that knowledge with the world.”
The fifth annual Mobile Star Awards™ aim to honor and promote the best companies, products, deployments, and leaders in mobile and wireless technology. Winners are chosen by subscribers to Go Mobile®, MobileVillage’s free online newsletter sent to technology executives, mobile professionals, IT managers, developers, and top tech journalists.
“We are both pleased and honored that the mobile community has recognized Visto’s achievements and innovations for a third consecutive year,” said Brian Bogosian, chairman, president and CEO of Visto Corporation. “Visto has experienced a phenomenal year as we have been successful in tripling our subscriber base, securing new customer relationship and establishing strategic partnerships with the companies that are shaping the mobility market. We will continue to work with our carrier customers and partners to make mobile email easier to use, more affordable and accessible to everyone who wants mobile email – not just the top executives.”
In the past year, Visto has more than tripled its subscriber base and announced almost a dozen new mobile operator customers across North America, Europe and Asia. Visto offers support for over 100 of the most popular email-ready mobile phones, offering an easy-to-use mobile email experience that is embedded and available out of the box. These handsets come equipped with Visto Mobile 5.5, which is making mobile email easier, more secure and more aligned with how busy people conduct their business and personal lives.
A list of winners in each of this year’s award categories is posted at www.mobilevillage.com/awards.htm.
About Visto
Visto delivers the leading global platform for mobile operators to provide easy-to-use wireless push email to the broadest set of mobile devices. Visto’s open solution enables email for the mass market, targeting enterprises, small businesses mobile professionals and consumers. 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 and business 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, Rogers Wireless, SmarTone, SFR, Softbank Mobile, Sprint Nextel, TELUS Mobility, Turkcell and the Vodafone Group.
Established in 1996 and headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, with offices in Seattle, Toronto, London, Milan, Paris, Madrid, Munich, Tokyo, Beijing and Tianjin, China, Visto is backed by Oak Investment Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Meritech Capital Partners, DFJ ePlanet Ventures, DFJ Growth Fund, Rustic Canyon Ventures, Allegis Capital, GKM and Blueprint Ventures. For more information, visit www.visto.com or email sales@visto.com.
About MobileVillage®
A pioneer in developing the enterprise mobile technology market since 1993, MobileVillage® / PDA Inc. is a market and solutions development company dedicated to advancing mobile and wireless enterprise computing within select vertical and horizontal market segments. The company has fostered countless technical and professional alliances through conferences; news; product promotions and awards; and "Best of Breed" solution identification. Visit MobileVillage online at www.mobilevillage.com.