3Com Rolls Out New Developer Program to Bring Internet Content to the Palm VII Connected Organizer.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 1998--3Com Corporation (Nasdaq:COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ) today introduced an aggressive new program designed to enable web developers and Internet content providers See content provider. to easily provide Internet-based information wirelessly to users of the upcoming Palm VII The Palm VII product family consisted of two products, the Palm VII and the Palm VIIx Palm Pilots. These were produced by Palm, Inc., before it was split into PalmOne and PalmSource. They had antennas for wireless data communication on the Mobitex network under the now defunct Palm. (TM) connected organizer from Palm Computing computing - computer , Inc., a 3Com company. Through this program, 3Com will offer a free and comprehensive set of tools, technical resources and services for quickly and conveniently making information residing on existing web sites accessible to users of the Palm VII organizer. This program is the next step in 3Com's strategy to rapidly bring a broad range of wireless information access and e-commerce solutions to the industry-leading Palm Computing(R) platform. The Palm VII organizer is expected to be available in 1999. Announced today at the second annual Palm Computing Platform See platform. Worldwide Developer Conference, the Palm VII organizer is the first-ever all-in-one handheld solution for wireless Internet access See how to access the Internet. and two-way personal communications. It provides fast, easy and secure access to personal, business and Internet information. With the Palm VII organizer, 3Com also introduces a revolutionary new model for accessing Internet information called "web clipping (1) Extracting a smaller amount of text and graphic elements from a Web page in order to display effectively on a handheld Web appliance. Web clipping often uses a predefined form, or template, into which the extracted data are placed. " -- a means of extracting only a specific set of needed information from a web site. Because the Palm VII organizer is secured by technology from Certicom, the industry*s leading provider of security solutions for wireless and Internet-based environments, high-level applications such as electronic purchases, online banking and over-the-air stock trading can be safely deployed. "As the worldwide handheld market leader, we eagerly accept the responsibility of enabling the rapid deployment of web-based solutions that will enrich the lives of our customers in many ways," said Mark Bercow, vice president of strategic alliances and platform development for Palm Computing. "This program opens up our already widely-adopted platform to an entirely new segment of developers and partners. With many leading web content providers already on board, we expect to see the amount of Internet activity based on our new Palm VII organizer to increase greatly over the next year." The development tools provide a simple and intuitive interface for building Palm(TM) query applications that can be downloaded from the desktop to the Palm VII organizer. Query applications are easy-to-use forms that Palm VII device owners use to quickly request a specific set of desired information such as flight schedules and fares or the latest sports or stock market headlines from a specific site on the Internet. The tools used to build query applications are based on standard HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , so developers can build and deploy them with little to no learning curve involved. The development tools and resources for free download at the time of the field trial in early 1999 will be available at www.palm.net/devzone. These include a style guide, quick start guide, FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) A group of commonly asked questions about a subject along with the answers. Vendors often display them on their Web sites for use as troubleshooting guidelines. , code samples, utilities, a Palm OS software emulator Hardware, software or a combination of the two that enables a computer to act like another computer and run applications written for that computer. In the past, it was often a hardware add-on that actually contained an instruction execution module for the emulated computer. for testing newly built query applications and full documentation. The Palm.Net(TM) site will feature an area that allows developers to submit query applications for inclusion in a central database and identification to the Palm Developer Marketing team. Upon submission to the Palm.Net site, a query application will be reviewed and tested for quality assurance by Palm Computing. If approved the query application will be placed in the public area within the Palm.Net sight and made available to customers both for keyword search and download. Keywords search capabilities including "hotlist A listing of the best of something. It typically refers to the most popular Web sites. (World-Wide Web) hotlist - (From hypertext "hot spot") A document on the World-Wide Web or a user's browser configuration file containing hypertext links, often unorganised and " (most frequently downloaded) and "what's new" (recently uploaded) will assist Palm VII organizer users in finding interesting and useful query applications. More than 20 of the world's leading Internet content providers have already built query applications that ship with the Palm VII organizer, including ABCNEWS.com, Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , ESPN.com, Etak, E
RADE, Fodor's, Frommer's, MapQuest, MasterCard, Merriam-Webster,
Moviefone, OAG, TheStreet.com, Ticketmaster, Travelocity, UPS, USA
Today, U.S. West, Visa International, The Wall Street Journal
Interactive Edition, The Weather Channel and Yahoo!.
About 3Com Corporation
With more than 200 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(R) More connected(TM). For further information, visit
3Com's World Wide Web site at www.3com.com or the press site at
www.3com.com/pressbox or Palm Computing at www.palm.com.
Note to Editors: 3Com and Palm Computing are registered
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