Industry Leaders Join 3Com to Showcase Award-Winning Palm Computing
Platform at COMDEX - BW, 09:36 a.m. Nov 16, 1998 Eastern
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 1998--This week at
the COMDEX computer trade show, Palm Computing Inc., a
3Com company (Nasdaq:COMS), will demonstrate its
world-leading products, the Palm III(tm) and PalmPilot(tm)
Professional edition connected organizers, along with innovative
Palm Computing(r) platform solutions from leading licensees and
developers including IBM and Symbol Technologies. The Palm
Computing Pavilion is in the Las Vegas Convention Center, North
Hall, Booth L6040.
Platform licensees and third-party developers will demonstrate new
solutions that expand the Palm Computing platform, adding
functionality for consumer, business and enterprise applications.
The newest solutions cover technology categories such as wireless
messaging and Internet browsing, voice recognition, one- and
two-way paging, infrared data synchronization, barcode scanning,
access to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, database
access, business card scanning and personal finance.
Exhibiting in the Palm Computing Developer Pavilion will be
Aether Technologies, Advance Systems, Chapura, Concept
Kitchen, Corex Technologies, Dataviz, Dynafirm, Franklin Covey,
IBM, JP Systems, LandWare featuring Intuit, Lotus, Oracle,
PageMart Wireless featuring Motorola, Novatel Wireless, Oracle,
PilotGear H.Q., Puma Technology, Riverbed Technologies,
Satellite Forms, Smartcode, Sybase, Symbol Technologies,
Synergy Solutions, Technology Resource Group, Tegic
Communications and WaveWare Communications.
"Third-party developers have been instrumental in the rapid
expansion of the Palm Computing platform," said Mark Bercow,
vice president, strategic alliances and platform development for
Palm Computing. "Our active community of over 10,000
developers has enabled Palm(tm) users to add hundreds of different
applications, while preserving the simplicity that made the Palm III
and PalmPilot products the world's favorite connected organizers."
For the third consecutive year, the Palm Computing platform leads
the worldwide handheld device market by a widening margin,
easily withstanding increased competition in the market from other
vendors. With an installed base of more than 2 million units, the
Palm Computing platform holds a 63 percent share of the handheld
market (Dataquest). About the Palm Computing Platform
The Palm Computing platform is the foundation for the
market-leading 3Com Palm III and PalmPilot connected organizers
and other handheld computing products from Palm Computing's
strategic partners, all leaders in their respective markets. These
include IBM, which sells the IBM WorkPad PC Companion into
the enterprise market, Franklin Covey, which supplies the Franklin
Electronic Day Planner for the training and time management
industry, QUALCOMM, which will sell its pdQ CDMA Digital
Smartphone in 1999, and Symbol Technologies, which develops
and markets the SPT 1500 device with bar code scanning
capabilities used in retail, transportation, parcel and postal delivery,
manufacturing and health care. About 3Com
3Com Corporation enables individuals and organizations
worldwide to stay more connected by communicating and sharing
information and resources anytime, anywhere. As one of the
world's preeminent suppliers of data, voice and video
communications technology, 3Com has delivered networking
solutions to nearly 200 million customers worldwide. The company
provides large enterprise, small and medium enterprise, carriers and
network service providers, and consumers with comprehensive,
innovative information access products and system solutions for
building intelligent, reliable and high performance local and wide
area networks. For further information, visit 3Com's Web site at
www.3Com.com or Palm Computing at www.palm.com.
3Com and Palm Computing are registered trademarks, and Palm,
PalmPilot and Palm III are trademarks, of 3Com Corporation or its
subsidiaries. All other company and product names may be
trademarks of the respective companies with which they are
associated. No products mentioned herein are manufactured by
Pilot Corporation or Pilot Corporation of America, manufacturers
and distributors of writing instruments.
Copyright 1998, Business Wire
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