ADVISORY/Countdown to COMDEX - HP and IBM Debate `Wireless' On COMDEX Con-Call Discussion.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

COMDEX Fall 2002

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WHAT:     Wireless Panel Discussion and Media Q&A

          The growing adoption of high-speed, wireless connectivity
          will quickly take us to a tipping point in terms of ubiquity
          of infrastructure - and continues to offer major opportunity
          for technical innovation and financial reward for vendors.
          The 802.11x series of technologies continue to grow on the
          local area, while new approaches to high-speed wireless wide
          area networks are emerging from their development stages.
          Taken together with the developments in security and
          application integration, wireless technologies offer the
          ability to tackle business problems in a radically different
          way, with tremendous savings of time and cost, not to
          mention additional effectiveness.

          But questions on competing standards for the enterprise and
          the home, the future of broadband and the viability of 3G
          loom large. To answer these questions and share their
          visions of a wireless future, senior executives from
          Hewlett-Packard and IBM will join moderator Mike Millikin,
          Senior Vice President, COMDEX, in a telephone panel
          discussion.

          Media are invited to join Lara Kahler, Manager, HP Mobility
          Solutions, Office of Corporate Strategy and Technology for
          Hewlett-Packard; and, Ron Sperano, Program Director, Mobile
          Market Development, IBM Personal Computing Division. The
          discussion, which will take the form of a 30-minute
          telephone debate, will be followed by a ten minute Q&A.

WHEN:     The Wireless Panel Discussion and Q&A will be conducted via
          conference call on Wednesday, November 6 at
          1:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PT. All media interested in
          participating in the call may RSVP to Jennifer Saul by
          5:00 p.m. ET/ 2:00 p.m. PT on Tuesday, November 5.
          NOTE: The dial-in number for the Wireless Panel conference
          call will be distributed to RSVP respondents only.

CONTACT:  RSVPs may be forwarded via email to [e-mail] or
          via phone at [phone].

          Questions related to media/analyst COMDEX registration can
          be directed to Jo-Anne Baxter at
          [e-mail]. For additional event
          information, visit www.comdex.com.