Visto Launches Mobile Communications Platform

New Wireless Capabilities Provide Single Click Access To Key Information from Web Phones and Handheld Devices

Visto Corporation (www.vistocorp.com) today launched its Powered-by-Visto platform aimed at carriers, businesses and websites. The Powered-by-Visto platform is a patented suite of synchronized, integrated communications applications for mobile professionals. This platform allows channel partners and customers to provide their users, subscribers and members with unprecedented access to key information from any Web-enabled device over wireless and wired networks.

The announcement was made at the PCIA Global Xchange 2000, a prestigious international conference and exposition featuring innovative wireless technology and product solutions. The conference will be held today through Friday at McCormick Place South. Visto, the pioneer and leading provider of intelligent mobile communications services for wired and wireless networks, currently has more than two million subscribers to its www.visto.com website.

"No one can match Visto," said Brian Bogosian, Visto’s president and CEO. "This service is a differentiator for all of our clients and a "churn" killer for carriers. We were the first to market. We own the patents. We have the richest and most integrated application suite backed by three years of experience on the most stable platform in the industry.

According to Bogosian, there are significant benefits to carriers, businesses and websites that offer the services. Powered-by-Visto gives them new ways to differentiate themselves, increase customer loyalty and enhance revenues by offering these premium services, and building brand awareness by creating a private label on the site using their company logo, colors and user interface.

Visto also gave the public its first look at new wireless access features of the Powered-by-Visto platform. Industry executives saw the new services earlier this month at DEMOMobile 2000, a highly respected event at which top firms are invited to present new technology at the forefront of major industry trends.

Conference-goers stopping by Booth 1964 can see demonstrations of the new capabilities and watch a presentation called "CyberSurvivor," a humorous spin on the popular "Survivor" television show that demonstrates the practical benefits of Visto’s wireless access services.

Powered-by-Visto

Powered-by-Visto is a comprehensive suite of applications that runs on either wireless or wired Web-enabled devices. The applications integrate email, address book, calendar, files, bookmarks, and tasks that help individuals and groups access and synchronize information and collaborate in a secure, protected environment.

New wireless features ensure that users can easily access this information anytime using any Web-enabled device. Because content is integrated directly into its applications, Visto enhances the users’ experience and makes it easier than ever to access information on the go.

Powered-by-Visto’s comprehensive suite of applications offers:

• Visto Email

• Access existing email accounts with new wireless features.
• Streamline communications into a central place by collecting email from other accounts, including Internet and office email, such as Microsoft® Exchange and Lotus® Notes in an environment with or without a corporate firewall.

• Reply easily to email and voice messages with a single click.

• Organize email messages into user-defined folders and block spam email using smart email filters.

• Know when important email arrives with the phone alerts.

• Open email attachments and print to a fax machines with new wireless features.

• Visto Address Book

• Synchronize Contact information with most software applications such as

Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Organizer and ACT.

• Get directions to any stored addresses can be accessed with a single click.
• Dial stored numbers instantly with one-click on a mobile phone.

• Visto Calendar & Tasks

• Stay on schedule by synchronizing office and personal calendars from any device, and send email reminders of important dates.

• Visto Groups

• Collaborate, and manage a group calendar and messages with easy wireless features for web-enabled phones or handheld devices.

• Visto’s Integrated Public Content

• Get directions and scan the yellow pages. Instead of getting driving directions by typing in the starting and ending addresses on a wireless device, users simply click once on a starting and ending address in their address books.

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