Visto Launches Industry's First Push Mobile Social Networking Solution

Integrated solution enables real-time information and notifications across email, social networks and contacts including Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and Photobucket.

Company Press Release, Sep. 9, 2008

Redwood City, Calif., - VISTO, the leading provider of secure and easy-to-use push mobile email, today announced VISTO Mobile 6.  Extending mobile communications beyond email with an integrated experience, VISTO Mobile 6 is a suite of offerings for mobile phones designed to enable end users to connect with friends, family and colleagues in real time in any number of ways including email, social networking, SMS, IM and photo sharing. With VISTO Mobile 6, VISTO is extending beyond mobile email to leverage its technology by bringing greater convenience and functionality to users of mobile media and social networks.   

"Social networking is fast becoming a powerful communications medium for the consumer, prosumer and business markets, but enterprise and SMB organizations have not had a reasonable mobile solution that addresses both professional and personal needs," says J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D., VP & Chief Analyst, Mobile & Wireless at Frost & Sullivan.  "The social networking capabilities of VISTO Mobile 6, coupled with access to email services give users an excellent example of the integrated mobile access and social networking services they need." 

Featuring an innovative "living address book," VISTO Mobile 6 offers end users expanded push mobile email and mobile social networking capabilities. This living address book combines favorite contacts from multiple sources, including social networks, into a seamless user interface.  VISTO Mobile 6 utilizes VISTO's patented push and synchronization technology to keep users constantly up to date in real time on their messaging and social networking activities.

In addition, VISTO Mobile 6 provides end users the ability to filter updates from their list of contacts; meaning each user has the control to see only the updates they truly care about.  This eliminates the clutter of unnecessary updates and requests.

Continuing to advance VISTO's best-of-breed mobile email solution, VISTO Mobile 6 email includes VISTO Mobile Exchange Direct Access (EDA) which provides full synchronization of email, contacts and calendar entries with Microsoft Exchange. Further, VISTO Mobile EDA uses Outlook Web Access (OWA) interface which requires no software behind the corporate firewall and is easy to set up. With VISTO EDA, enterprise users, small business users and prosumers who buy their own mobile services can quickly set up secure Exchange access for a seamless user experience.

"As the capabilities and volumes of smartphones and mid-range mobile phones continue to increase and bundled data plans become the norm, individuals are looking to their mobile device and their mobile operator to provide more functionality and value, including timely and secure delivery of mission critical messaging, applications and content.  In parallel, service providers and operators are looking to bring more value to their customers further up the value chain, independent of RIM, Microsoft, Nokia, Apple and others, while providing a consistent user experience across those and other device platform and operating systems," said Brian Bogosian, CEO of VISTO. "VISTO Mobile 6 is uniquely positioned to meet these needs."

For end users, VISTO Mobile 6 provides a seamless, easy-to-use solution that enables them to stay connected with the people they care about in the way they choose. For mobile operators, VISTO Mobile 6 provides significant opportunities for customer and revenue (ARPU) growth, not only because of its low total cost of ownership and fast time-to-market delivery, but because it enables the operator to harness the power of mobile communications including social networking and email, to provide their customers with exciting new services.

VISTO Mobile 6 for End Users

VISTO Easy Setup: End-to-end self provisioning with pre-installed clients, enabling mobile email users to set up their service from their device in a matter of seconds

VISTO worklife.freedom:
access email from the most popular portal email providers and social networking sites including Yahoo!, AOL, Google Gmail, Hotmail, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and Photobucket

VISTO ConstantSync: instantly pushes data right to the phone so the end user is always up-to-date-alerts, emails, status messages - everything is always current.    You can get notifications of new pictures, posts, and other important events from social networking and photo sharing sites from your favorite contacts pushed to your phone. You can share photos from your phone to multiple photo sharing sites.
 
Support for multiple services: send and receive messages from work and personal email and social networking accounts, each with its own inbox, with full attachment handling. 

VISTO Mobile 6 for Mobile Operators
Increase customer satisfaction and revenue generation:

Gain new data plan subscribers with service that       provides a truly mobile social networking experience

Integration with browser experience to maintain end user relationship and further monetize opportunities with social networking sites

Increased date usage with simple, integrated photo sharing experience
 
Enabled for cool and popular mobile phoneS

Lower TCO: unified view of all social network connections means fewer on-device applications and lower sales and support costs
 
Provide Value Added Service: develop and offer unique, mobile-centric social networking capabilities designed specifically for your customers
 
Security: all communications are secured from end to end to alleviate enterprise concerns around security and give mobile professionals more control over how they use their phones.

Pricing and Availability
VISTO Mobile 6 is available now to mobile operators worldwide. The flexibility of VISTO Mobile 6 enables mobile operators to deliver targeted solutions that address the unique requirements of their customers. Today VISTO offers mobile email services through many of the world's largest mobile operators in more than 30 countries.