At LinuxWorld in San Francisco, Palm announced two new software providers for the Palm Foleo mobile companion. LogMeIn, the world's leading provider of remote connectivity, will bring remote PC access capabilities to the Palm Foleo through secure connections over the web, enabling easy desktop remote control, data backup and file sharing. With this application, users can quickly and securely access files and network resources on their home or work computers when away. Palm has also selected Wind River as its Linux platform provider for future Foleo software releases.

Press Release: LogMeIn Adds Remote PC Access Capability to Palm Foleo Mobile Companion

SAN FRANCISCO, LinuxWorld Expo, Aug. 7, 2007 – Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) and LogMeIn, Inc., the world's leading provider of remote connectivity, are bringing remote PC access capability to the Palm Foleo mobile companion. LogMeIn provides secure connections between remote PCs over the web – enabling easy desktop remote control, data backup and file sharing. Adding this application to the Foleo gives users the ability to quickly and securely access files and network resources on their home or work computers when away.

Demonstrations of LogMeIn's application on the Foleo will take place in Palm's booth, No. 925, at LinuxWorld Expo Aug. 7-9, at the Moscone Convention Center North in San Francisco.

The Palm Foleo mobile companion is for people who understand that sometimes less is more. With the press of one button, the mobile companion's large screen displays wireless email from a paired smartphone. A smartphone is great for finding quick bits of information or sending a brief response to an email, but there are times when a full-size keyboard and a big screen is preferred to view attachments, type longer emails, or to get a bigger-screen look at web pages and photos. Plus, Internet access is available anywhere there is cell phone coverage, or when the Foleo is within range of a Wi-Fi hotspot. With Foleo's instant on/off capability, light weight and small size, and 5-hour battery life, Palm expects the mobile companion to establish a new category of personal-computing products.

LogMeIn Free is a free service that provides fast, secure and easy access to a remote computer from virtually any web-enabled PC or Pocket PC with a high-speed Internet connection. Users can obtain on-demand remote access to their work and home computers – viewing desktops, files and network resources. With more than 20 million users, LogMeIn handles hundreds of thousands of remote connections between computers every day.

LogMeIn Pro provides mobile professionals with the same fast, secure and easy remote access to their business or home computers as LogMeIn Free, but with the added productivity benefits of file transfer, remote printing, large-file sharing and guest-invite features. LogMeIn employs state-of-the-art security, with 128-to 256-bit SSL encryption to prevent unauthorized access.

"This alliance with Palm is a perfect fit for us. The Foleo is designed for people on the go and – by using LogMeIn – they will be able to access their files, documents, photos and music as if they were at their office or home PC,” said Richard Redding, vice president, business development, LogMeIn. "We are excited to work with Palm and extend LogMeIn's offerings to improve the experience of Foleo users.”

By building the Foleo on an open Linux-based platform and publishing the tools developers need, Palm hopes to establish a vibrant developer community to create new applications that extend the mobile companion's built-in capabilities. LogMeIn demonstrates the ease with which exciting technology and applications can be ported to the Palm Foleo mobile companion.

"The Foleo is the perfect device for mobile professionals who want to travel lighter and carry only what they absolutely need,” said Mark Bercow, senior vice president of business development for Palm, Inc. "By adding LogMeIn to the Foleo, users can travel with the essentials, but still have access to files and documents left behind.”

Press Release: Palm Selects Wind River as its Preferred Linux Platform Provider for the Palm Foleo Mobile Companion

SAN FRANCISCO, LinuxWorld, Booths #740 and #925, Aug. 7, 2007 -- Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization, and Palm, Inc. announced that Palm has selected Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux Edition as its open standard Linux platform for future Palm Foleo software releases. Palm selected Wind River Linux for its standard development and deployment environment that will help speed applications to market, while still meeting the requirements for a stable and robust open mobile platform. Along with the platform, Wind River is providing its Wind River Workbench development suite, professional services and customer support to help Palm and its development community attain the efficiencies needed to compete in the ever-changing mobile market. Today's announcement reaffirms Wind River's growing leadership as a mobile Linux provider.

Palm and Wind River will work to incorporate Wind River's Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux Edition to the Foleo over the coming months. The Palm Foleo mobile companion is for people who understand that sometimes less is more. With the press of one button, the mobile companion's large screen displays wireless email from a paired smartphone. A smartphone is great for finding quick bits of information or sending a brief response to an email. But there are times when a full-size keyboard and a big screen is preferred to view attachments, type longer emails, or to get a bigger-screen look at web pages and photos. Plus, Internet access is available anywhere there is cell phone data coverage, or when the Foleo is within range of a Wi-Fi hotspot. With Foleo's instant on/off capability, light and small size, and 5-hour battery life, Palm expects the mobile companion to establish a new category of personal-computing products.

"By building the Foleo on an open Linux-based platform and publishing the tools developers need, Palm hopes to establish a vibrant developer community to create new applications that extend the mobile companion's built-in capabilities,” said Mark Bercow, senior vice president, Business Development, Palm, Inc. "Wind River's open Linux platform gives us the reliability, performance and stability we need to continue driving innovation. Palm Foleo allows you to switch between applications at the touch of a button, play a game or write a memo, and synchronize your email. The Foleo makes you more productive than ever on the go.”

With Wind River's solution, mobile manufacturers now have a low-risk choice for an OEM-grade mobile Linux platform, providing a robust development and operating platform. Wind River provides the full service and support of its technologies across a range of complex mobile devices. As a result, customers can leverage the benefits of roll your own (RYO) while receiving the efficiencies of developing on pre-integrated hardware and software.

"By offering an incredibly reliable architectural platform combined with an organization committed to operational excellence, Wind River is rapidly becoming the commercial Linux distributor of choice for mobile companies,” said John Bruggeman, chief marketing officer, Wind River. "The stability and flexibility of Wind River's Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux Edition, coupled with Wind River Workbench development suite give Palm the strategic platform and tools it needs to differentiate the Foleo and help it deliver a solid platform for developers.”

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