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Visto Powers Push Email On Palm Treo 750v For Vodafone

Exciting, new business-ready handset to deliver Visto’s easy-to-use mobile email from launch

Redwood City, Calif., September 13 2006 – Visto, the leading global provider of secure push email to the enterprise market, today announced that it is supporting Vodafone’s push email services on the new Palm Treo 750v device straight from launch.

Visto’s patented Visto Mobile platform will deliver a secure and easy-to-use push email experience to business users on the Treo 750v - the latest feature-packed, “business-ready” smart device from Palm.

“The immediate availability of Vodafone push email services on the Treo 750v demonstrates Visto’s ongoing commitment to providing email on all leading business-ready handsets as they come to market,” said Jean Tripier, Visto’s executive vice-president and chief operating officer. “The Treo 750v is a stylish, high-end device and we’re delighted to be supporting it. Together with data security and ease-of-use, device choice is one of three core dimensions to driving the mass adoption of mobile email.”

The Visto Mobile platform supports easy-to-use mobile email on more than 100 business-ready devices on all popular mobile operating systems, including Windows Mobile, Symbian and Java. It also supports all leading email systems, including Microsoft Exchange 5.5, 2000 and 2003, Lotus Domino R5.0, R6.0 and R6.5 and internet-based POP3 and IMAP4 services.  This unique flexibility, and inherent security that requires no changes to firewalls, means that operators using Visto Mobile can offer an easy-to-use mobile email service to multiple market segments - from large corporations to SMEs and professional consumers.

The Palm Treo 750v with Visto-powered push email service is available first to Vodafone customers in the following countries: France, Ireland, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and the UK.

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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 utilises 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 optimised 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 customised, brandable solutions are available through mobile operators worldwide including Cingular, Elisa, KPN, Lenovo Group Ltd, Rogers Wireless, 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.

©Copyright 2006. Visto Corporation, Visto, the Visto logo, Visto Mobile, ConstantSync, Constant Synchronization and worklife.freedom 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 the following NTP U.S. Patents: 5,436,960, 5,438,611, 5,479,472, 5,625,670, 5,631,946, 5,819,172, 6,067,451, 6,317,592 and various other foreign patents. Other patents pending.