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To: Grislee bear who wrote (38709)	1/31/2000 8:14:00 PM
From: Mang Cheng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 45548

"Motorola, Psion Ally to Develop Mobile Products for Web Access" February 1, 2000 An INTERACTIVE JOURNAL News Roundup Psion PLC and Motorola Inc. Monday announced an agreement to develop jointly a range of mobile Internet-access devices. Motorola, a telecommunications-equipment company based in Schaumburg, Ill., and Psion, a palmtop-computer maker based in London, will jointly design and develop wireless information devices for use on cellular networks in Europe, North America and Asia. The companies anticipate a launch for the product during the first half of 2001. The pact builds on Psion's existing relationship with Motorola under the Symbian alliance, a joint venture formed to back Psion's EPOC operating system for handheld computers and other wireless devices such as mobile phones. Symbian members also include Finland's Nokia Corp., Sweden's Telfon AB L.M. Ericsson and Japan's Matsushita Communication Industrial Co. Psion Chief Executive David Levin, in a conference call with journalists Monday, said the companies would review their alliance once the first product family is completed. "The significant thing here is a relationship between Motorola and Psion. ... It gives us an active route to take the company forward," Mr. Levin said. The alliance's products will be aimed at professionals who want to use the Internet while on the move, and will eventually be rolled out to a wider market, Mr. Levin said. He said the products would allow full Internet access and voice communication, but would not divulge further details. Neither would Mr. Levin disclose his company's investment in the alliance, but said it would push Psion's research and development budget beyond 8% of sales. The alliance with Psion follows Motorola's investment last month in 3Com Corp.'s Palm Inc. unit, which makes the popular Palm line of personal digital assistants, and its agreement to license Palm's operating system. Motorola said at the time that its new affiliation with Palm wouldn't jeopardize its relationship with Symbian or Psion. Palm and Psion, meanwhile, plan to link their operating systems so software developers can write programs that work on both systems, potentially increasing the popularity of both and helping Psion and Palm better compete with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE operating system.