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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (19075)	12/3/1998 7:03:00 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

To all - NYT article on PalmPilot developments : December 3, 1998 3Com to Offer a Palm Pilot With Wireless Capabilities By JOHN MARKOFF SANTA CLARA -- Predicting that even limited mobile access to the Internet will attract consumers to an $800 version of its Palm Pilot electronic organizer, the 3Com Corporation Wednesday announced a wireless version of the popular device. However, the company said it did not plan field trials of the new Palm Pilot with BellSouth, which is providing the wireless connection to the Internet, until early next year, and said it expects the device to go on sale sometime in 1999. The new version, a redesign of the current generation, the Palm III, will be named the Palm VII. The company said its numbering strategy left room for other new models but that none would be available this holiday season. The Palm VII's will allow only limited access to the World Wide Web and e-mail through specially designed Web sites. In an effort to turn this handicap into an advantage, Joe Sipher, head of 3Com's wireless effort, described the low-bandwidth design as "Web clipping" instead of browsing. 3Com said information and service providers including Bank of America, Moviefone, Mastercard, Visa, Frommer's, Fodor's, E*Trade Group and USA Today had already agreed to develop custom software and sites for the Palm VII. At a news conference, the company said the device would give mobile consumers the ability to retrieve from the Internet small bits of information like airline schedules and telephone numbers, to send brief e-mail messages and to do things like make movie reservations. "We are going to change the way people access and communicate with the Internet forever," said Janice Roberts, the head of 3Com's Palm division. Wireless access to information has long been the Holy Grail both of start-ups like Eo and Radiomail and of large corporations like Apple, AT&T, I.B.M. and Motorola. But most of their efforts to provide it have failed. Geoff Goodfellow, who founded Radiomail Inc., the first wireless e-mail company, in 1988, said: "This is an attempt to repeat history. This is still a zero-billion-dollar industry." Even so, 3Com executives said the Palm Pilot's popularity -- more than two million have been sold -- coupled with growing consumer dependence on the rapidly expanding Web would propel sales of the Palm VII. Analysts, however, said they were disappointed by the wireless service plan, which will begin at $9.95 a month but will cost, on average, 30 cents for each 1,000 characters of information. Sipher said the basic plan would allow Internet access about six times a day on average. Andrew Seybold, editor of Andrew Seybold's Outlook, a mobile computing newsletter, said he found the service offering disappointing because it would force him to add a second e-mail address, would limit Internet access to special Web sites and would not allow retrieval of information from a desktop computer. Ms. Roberts shrugged off the skepticism. Noting that the industry had also long been skeptical about hand-held computing, she said, "We've proved them wrong, and we have created a business." Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (19075)	12/3/1998 7:21:00 PM
From: limtex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

mw - Here we go again!!!!!!!!! Looks a bit grim to me now yet again the usual suspects( Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong and sooner or later Russia again) but this time no green$span to lower rates and get the market back up again. Friday looks very much like its setting itself up for one of the biggest drops in history. same pattern get a bit of enthusiams going get people back in the market ....then have a week of 1.5% to 2.5% daily drops in the market and then a big drop of severl hundred and so on till we gwt back to 7,000 or below and your stuck in for five years or more. just hope we're all still alive this time tomorrow but it really looks grim now!! Regards, L