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Vodafone Selects Visto for Global Push Email Contract

Redwood Shores, California (ots/PRNewswire)

- Vodafone Launches Its Push Email Offering to Its Mobile
Community Using Visto Mobile(TM) With ConstantSync(TM) Technology
Visto Corporation, a leading global provider of secure push mobile
email,  has won the global contract to provide its Visto Mobile(TM) 5
with  ConstantSync(TM) push email platform to Vodafone, the world's
largest mobile  community. With Visto Mobile, Vodafone is able to
deliver a push email,  contacts and calendar wireless service
offering on a range of industry- leading mobile devices, thus
addressing the business needs of Vodafone's  customer base across all
segments around the world.
Vodafone's push email service addresses the professional needs of
enterprises and individuals alike, enhancing productivity and
providing the same real-time experience as if the user were accessing
email directly from a laptop or PC. By making its Visto-powered push
email solution widely available, Vodafone is enabling its mobile
community -- from individual users and small/medium size enterprises
to mobile professionals in a large organization -- to experience
first hand the tremendous value and utility created by having
instantaneous access to mobile email.
"Vodafone intends to offer the best and easiest to use mobile
email services for our business customers," said Peter Bamford, Chief
Marketing Officer at Vodafone. "Vodafone push email means more
customers can now mobilise their businesses and benefit from greater
business productivity and responsiveness whilst on the move.
Customers can choose the mobile email solution that complements their
IT system, whilst enabling mobile email users and Company IT Managers
to select the device that meets their needs."
Announcing the contract, Visto's Chairman, President and CEO Brian
Bogosian said: "This Vodafone win firmly establishes our global
leadership as the number one provider of push email technology based
on an open approach to both devices and data sources. We will
actively support Vodafone in this endeavor and will continue to
partner with all of our operator customers in Europe, North America,
and Asia Pacific, to rapidly grow the market by bringing freedom of
choice for mobile email to every user in every part of the world."
The Vodafone offering is powered by Visto Mobile with ConstantSync
technology. With ConstantSync, users have instantaneous, two-way
access to email, calendar and contacts for the best user experience.
Visto Mobile is easy to setup and use and provides IT managers with
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 Mobile works on the broadest set of devices across
all operating systems including Symbian, Palm, Microsoft Windows
Mobile, J2ME MIDP 2.0, IMAP4 and SyncML. The push email service is
currently available from Vodafone Germany, Vodafone Greece, Vodafone
Italy, SFR (France) and Elisa (Finland). Vodafone Spain is launching
the service today with additional Vodafone markets launching push
email over the course of this year.
"Today, email is the most pervasive mobile application," said
Stephen Drake, Program Director, Mobile Software with IDC. "Mobile
professionals and individual consumers alike have begun to realize
significant productivity gains that can be achieved with mobile
email. As a result, mobile operators have a unique opportunity to
deliver email to a broader customer base and provide both voice and
data offerings as part of one service on one device."
About Vodafone
Vodafone is the world's largest mobile community with 151 million
proportionate customers, equity interests in 26 countries and Partner
Networks in a further 14 countries. For further information about
Vodafone, please visit the Vodafone Group website: www.vodafone.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(TM), 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 Vist
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, mobile professionals and
consumers. The company's patented Visto Mobile(TM) platform with
ConstantSync(TM) 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 is challenging for market
leadership, shortly to deliver ConstantSync support for more than 50
different wireless handsets and targeting a user base of some 10
million customers by 2007. Visto's customized, brandable solutions
are available through mobile operators worldwide including AT&T
Wireless, Bell Mobility, KPN, Manitoba Telecom Services, Nextel
Communications, Inc., Rogers Wireless, SaskTel Mobility, SmarTone and
TELUS Mobility.
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, 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.
NOTE: Visto Corporation, Visto, the Visto logo, Visto Mobile,
ConstantSync and Constant Synchronization are either trademarks or
registered trademarks of Visto Corporation. All third-party
trademarks, trade names, or service marks are the property of their
respective owners and are used only to refer to the goods or services
identified by those third-party marks. Visto's technology is
protected by U.S. Patents 6,085,192; 5,968,131; 6,023,708; 5,961,590;
6,131,116; 6,151,606; 6,233,341; 6,131,096, 6,708,221 and 6,766,454
and 12 foreign patents. Other patents pending.
Web site: http://www.visto.com
    Web site: http://www.vodafone.com

Contact:

U.K., Steve Maynard, +44-0-7979-708-637, or Kevin Taylor or Sarah
Webb or Alex Sowden or Rachael Parker, all of Companycare
Communications, +44-0-118-939-5900; or U.S., Suzanne Panoplos
+1-650-486-6026, or Shauli Chaudhuri or Aparna Aswani or Brittany
Johnson, all of Neale May & Partners, +1-650-328-5555, or
visto@nealemay.com, all for Visto; or Jon Earl
or Janine Young, +44-0-1635-673310; or Lulu Bridges of Tavistock
Communications, +44-0-20-7920-3150; or investors, Charles Butterworth
or Darren Jones or Sarah Moriarty, +44-0-1635-673310, all for
Vodafone