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To: DMaA who wrote (7242)	10/22/1997 9:58:00 AM
From: Jerry Ginz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

BACKED by USRobotics muscles, 3Com has thrown down the gauntlet on companies like Casio, Hewlett-Packard, Sharp and Compaq. Oct 22 1997 2:37AM CST, The New Straits Times Following the merger, 3Com, the US$6 billion a year networking company, is now moving into the market for handheld electronic organisers with a product from the stables of USRobotics, a specialist in communications devices. The PalmPilot, as the company calls its new product, lets people on the move access their schedule, contacts and addresses, expense accounts, and retrieve and compose e-mail, with just four buttons and a touch screen pen. Because of its simple operations, the company claimed that in a single year in the United States, it has captured a 71 per cent market share. Hoping to emulate that success, 3Com Asia Ltd (Malaysia) yesterday held a Press preview of the PalmPilot in Petaling Jaya, where two models, for professional users and personal users, were presented. Weighing only 5.7 ounces including two AAA-size batteries, it has one megabyte of memory or room for about 4,000 addresses, four years of appointments, 750 to-do items, 750 memos, and 100 e-mail messages. The PalmPilot will be officially launched at the Networks '97 exhibition in Kuala Lumpur from Thursday to Saturday.