Visto expands its push mail to social sites

Paul Mah — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:56:08 -0400

Among other advances, it looks like Mobile email vendor Visto has integrated social networking and photo sharing into its Visto Mobile 6 platform. Mobile users using Visto's solution will be able to see news updates from Facebook and MySpace, as well as notifications about new photo posted from Flickr and Photobucket. Like Research In Motion (RIM), Visto has been a long-time player in the push mail market. However, Visto does not make any hardware devices, working instead on the client-side software to run on various mobile hardware devices. It supports push mail from Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes, as well as traditional ISP-based emails and various web-based services.

For more about Visto:
- check out the PC World article

Wall Street Journal goes native on the BlackBerry

Paul Mah — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:54:17 -0400

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has released a native BlackBerry application that was custom-created just for its site. Among other features, it comes with a tabbed design with stories separated by categories, customized category listings, stock quote tracking, and even social networking stuffs such as Delicious and Facebook support. In addition, headlines and viewed articles are cached for offline reading. The WSJ.com Mobile Reader is free, and you can download it here. Implicit to the release of such an application is the tacit acknowledgment that the number of mobile devices will not only remain superior to that of a full-fledged desktop environment, but will pull ahead as handset makers turn to churning out smartphones to compete.

To look at the original reference:
- check out the Mobilecrunch article