Wave Issue 0308 3/21/03 Article 3-03

***PalmSource Joins CTIA and Announces New Wireless Services
(March 18)

PalmSource, Inc., provider of the world's most popular operating
system for handhelds and smartphones and the Palm OS subsidiary
of Palm, Inc., has joined CTIA's Wireless Internet Caucus (WIC)
and Leadership Council. The company has also formed new
relationships intended to further align Palm OS with the needs of
wireless operators and their customers. PalmSource has signed a
memorandum of understanding with QUALCOMM to allow over-the-air
delivery of Palm OS applications to wireless Palm Powered devices
using QUALCOMM's BREW Distribution System (BDS) over-the-air
delivery platform. Furthermore, PalmSource and Spontaneous
Technology will collaborate to enable secure wireless HotSync of
data on Palm Powered devices via the Spontaneous Virtual Private
Network (sVPN) solution.

Three smartphone vendors -- Handspring, Kyocera and Samsung --
build devices powered by Palm OS. According to IDC, Palm OS
holds 89 percent of the U.S. market for smartphones, and 28.5
percent share of the worldwide market. More than 25 million Palm
Powered devices have been sold worldwide and over 17,000
applications have been created for Palm OS.

As a member of CTIA's Wireless Internet Caucus and Leadership
Council, PalmSource will work with other industry leaders to
accelerate wireless growth in the United States. WIC meets
several times a year to find common solutions to the challenges
facing the wireless industry and its customers.

PalmSource and Spontaneous will work together to develop an sVPN
for Palm OS, to enable wireless operators to provide enterprise
customers with a secure wireless connection to a desktop computer
from a wireless Palm Powered handheld. For those enterprises
deploying the Spontaneous solution on Palm Powered devices, sVPN
will be initially integrated within the HotSync function that is
built into Palm OS.

PalmSource is collaborating with Samsung Telecommunications
America's Mobile Intelligent Terminals (MITs), to provide
corporations with access to business applications, enterprise
data, corporate e-mail, Internet and Intranet content on Palm
Powered Samsung SGH-i330 and SGH-i500 smartphones. Samsung also
introduced the MITs SGH-i500, a GSM-based smartphone running Palm
OS 5.

PalmSource has introduced the "Beam-Me-App" program for customers
of Palm Powered mobile devices to buy Palm OS applications.
Operators will be able to beam customers their choice of
applications via beaming jacks located in their retail stores.

www.palmsource.com