Mobile e-mail company Visto Corp. announced a major new push into the social-networking space, an effort to expand the company’s offerings beyond e-mail and into various real-time information services.
Specifically, Visto’s new Mobile 6 product allows users to maintain connections to e-mail, social networking sites like MySpace, picture-sharing sites like Photobucket, and updated address books.
“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.”
Visto is offering its new product directly to wireless carriers, in line with its established business model for wireless e-mail.
