Visto, Amelio's Lenovo Offer China B2B Mobile E-Mail
Can B2B be rendered in ideograms?
Partners Lenovo Chinaweal System & Service and Visto aim to find out--and if you're a company doing business in China, they might write the answer to your cell phone.
Lenovo Chinaweal, a subsidary of Chief Executive William J. Amelio's Lenovo Group, and Visto jointly announced on Monday that they are teaming up to deliver the first enterprise-grade mobile push e-mail to the Chinese market.
Visto is billed as the top global provider of secure push mobile e-mail. Its President, Chairman and CEO Brian Bogosian crowed in a press release, "This service is the first of its kind in China." The C-level exec went on to detail the braggadocio, saying that, "unlike competing mobile e-mail offerings, the Visto Mobile solution is available immediately on a broad range of mobile devices."
Joining forces with Amelio's Lenovo gives it an ally that's ranked No. 1 in providing IT equipment and services to the billion-person nation, and--thanks to its $1.7 billion buy of IBM's (nyse: IBM - news - people ) personal computer unit last year--No. 3 in global PC manufacturing.
Despite the Pacific giant's bulk of humanity, Caihong He, president of Lenovo Chinaweal, noted in the release that size won't be an issue: "With Visto Mobile, we deliver a mobile push email service to satisfy the needs of business customers, regardless of their size, e-mail infrastructure, or preferred mobile device."
And Yank business expats--particularly those limited to the Roman alphabet--take note: the Visto Mobile service will be available in both Chinese and English. Which might help the twain meet, just a bit more.
Lenovo Chinaweal, a subsidary of Chief Executive William J. Amelio's Lenovo Group, and Visto jointly announced on Monday that they are teaming up to deliver the first enterprise-grade mobile push e-mail to the Chinese market.
Visto is billed as the top global provider of secure push mobile e-mail. Its President, Chairman and CEO Brian Bogosian crowed in a press release, "This service is the first of its kind in China." The C-level exec went on to detail the braggadocio, saying that, "unlike competing mobile e-mail offerings, the Visto Mobile solution is available immediately on a broad range of mobile devices."
Joining forces with Amelio's Lenovo gives it an ally that's ranked No. 1 in providing IT equipment and services to the billion-person nation, and--thanks to its $1.7 billion buy of IBM's (nyse: IBM - news - people ) personal computer unit last year--No. 3 in global PC manufacturing.
Despite the Pacific giant's bulk of humanity, Caihong He, president of Lenovo Chinaweal, noted in the release that size won't be an issue: "With Visto Mobile, we deliver a mobile push email service to satisfy the needs of business customers, regardless of their size, e-mail infrastructure, or preferred mobile device."
And Yank business expats--particularly those limited to the Roman alphabet--take note: the Visto Mobile service will be available in both Chinese and English. Which might help the twain meet, just a bit more.
