Palm Computing and Symbian announce today their intent to cooperate to expand the size of the global wireless market place

GENEVA - Telecom 99 - Oct 13, 1999 - Palm Computing Inc., a 3Com company, and Symbian announced today that they intend to cooperate to enlarge the growing wireless telephony market. In order to achieve this goal, Palm and Symbian have agreed to discuss the licensing of each others technologies.

"We are delighted to extend the benefits of the Palm economy to the global cellular telephony market place. This future cooperation offers Palm the ability to provide comprehensive solutions to our licensees in the wireless area, and that is a win for the wireless industry overall", said Alan Kessler, President of Palm Computing.

"We are looking forward to cooperate with Palm to develop new opportunities for our licensees," said Colly Myers, CEO, Symbian. "Adding Palm Computing functionality to Symbian’s robust and scalable wireless platform, will result in new types of devices, providing both Symbian and Palm developers with a compelling new opportunity."

About Palm Computing

Palm Computing, Inc., a 3Com company, is the leading provider of handheld computing solutions, including the best-selling Palm III, Palm V and Palm VII series of connected organizers. The Palm Computing platform is the premiere handheld development environment and is the foundation for the market-leading connected organizers from Palm Computing as well as products from Palm Computing's strategic partners such as IBM, QUALCOMM, Franklin Covey and Symbol Technologies. Designed to support the increasingly mobile and geographically dispersed nature of information management, the company's handheld solutions allow people to carry their most critical information in their pockets. For more information, please visit  Palm

About 3Com Corporation

With over 300 million customers worldwide, 3Com Corporation connects more people in more ways to information than any other networking company. 3Com delivers innovative information access products and network system solutions to large, medium and small enterprises; carriers and network service providers; PC OEMs; and consumers. 3Com - More connected.™ For further information, visit 3Com’s World Wide Web site at 3Com or the press site at  3Com Newscentre

About Symbian

Symbian owns, licenses, develops and supports leading software, user interfaces, application frameworks and development tools for Wireless Information Devices such as Communicators and Smartphones. Symbian aims to promote standards for the interoperability of Wireless Information Devices with wireless networks, content services, and messaging and enterprise wide solutions.

With headquarters in London, Symbian has offices in Tokyo and Kanazawa, Japan; Ronneby, Sweden; Cambridge, UK and San Francisco Bay Area, USA. Symbian is owned by Ericsson, Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia and Psion. Symbian’s website can be found at Symbian

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