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To: Mark Oliver who wrote (119)	8/4/1999 7:10:00 PM
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Palm Software Moves to Phones 3Com licenses WAP browser, eyes other platforms for Palm technology. by James Niccolai, IDG News Service August 3, 1999, 3:06 p.m. PT 3Com has licensed a wireless Web browser from Phone.com in an effort to move its Palm Computing technology into the next generation of mobile phones. Phone.com's UP.Browser is based on the emerging Wireless Application Protocol, a set of technologies designed to allow mobile phones, handheld computers, and other portable devices to access content and services from the Internet. 3Com hopes to license its Palm Computing platform with the integrated WAP browser to wireless handset manufacturers for use in their phones, the company said. The Palm platform essentially consists of the Palm operating system and certain hardware specifications. 3Com already licenses the platform to IBM for use in its WorkPad PC Companion, and to Symbol Technologies, which has added a bar-code scanner to a Palm-like device. Qualcomm plans to use 3Com's technology in a smart phone called the pdQ, which combines voice and data capabilities with a personal organizer. Despite the design win from Qualcomm, 3Com might find the handset market a tough nut to crack. Its Palm platform will compete there against Epoch, an operating system developed by a consortium of wireless and handset providers that includes L.M. Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia. All three of those companies have committed to marketing by early next year digital cellular phones that use Epoch and include a WAP browser. As many as 525 million WAP-enabled devices will ship in the United States and Western Europe by 2003, says the market research firm Strategy Analytics. Meanwhile, 3Com maintains that it has no plans to use WAP in its wireless Palm VII computer, which provides limited Web access through a proprietary technology developed by 3Com called "web clipping." pcworld.com or Infoworld version infoworld.com