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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22842)	2/11/1999 8:32:00 AM
From: Sawtooth	Respond to of 152472

3COM/PALM/CDMA/Europe (techweb.com 2/11): ___3Com Buys Smartcode Technologie___ 3Com purchased wireless data-communications company Smartcode Technologie yesterday for $17.5 million in an effort to boost the wireless and Internet-access capabilities of its Palm Computing platform. Smartcode Technologie, in Montpellier, France, also develops Internet-access software. 3Com, in Santa Clara, Calif., said Smartcode's wireless communications capabilities will be added to the Palm Computing platform to address the growth in mobile information appliances such as cellular telephones, messaging devices, data communicators, and smart phones. Smartcode's Internet-access products include system software extensions, communications protocol stacks, and end-user applications. These products support wireless standards such as GSM and CDMA. Smartcode's 33 employees will form 3Com's new Palm Computing European development center in Montpellier. Its president and CEO, Alain Molinie, will become general manager of the new Palm Computing Platform Europe group. He will report to Mark Bercow, VP of strategic alliances and platform development of Palm Computing, a 3Com company. -- Kimberly Caisse, Computer Reseller News