TRG Products Signs Licensing Agreement with Palm Computing to Develop and Produce Palm OS Devices for Enterprise Deployment
DES MOINES, Iowa — October 11, 1999 — TRG Products, Inc. (TRG), has signed a licensing agreement with Palm Computing, Inc. permitting the company to develop and produce devices based on the Palm Computing(TM) platform. TRG will introduce its first product, a handheld computer for enterprise deployment in mid-October to coincide with the PalmSource(TM) '99 conference, Palm Computing's worldwide developer software conference.
"Palm Computing welcomes TRG to our growing list of licensees," said Mark Bercow, vice president of strategic alliances and platform development. "TRG, with its perspective and knowledge of needed enterprise IT solutions, will find a robust resource in the Palm Computing platform which now has over 20,000 developers and the largest application base of any handheld information manager."
About TRG Products, Inc.
TRG, a privately owned company headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, has partnered with Palm Computing since 1997. It is the only company to date to design, develop and deliver additional memory capacity and technology to the Palm Computing(R) platform. TRG's Internet sales model has allowed them to sell products in 90 countries on all seven continents.
TRG provides "add-in" memory expansion boards up to 8 MB that are under the covers, and therefore do not change the original form factor of the Palm device. These boards are available for off-the-shelf PalmPilot(TM), Palm III(TM) and Palm IIIx(TM) connected organizers and the IBM WorkPad(R) PC Companions. TRG also created FlashBuilder(TM) and FlashPro(TM) utility software, which protects information in nonvolatile flash memory in most standard Palm Computing and IBM devices. FlashPro utility software expands memory capacity of the Palm V by 40%. These relatively inexpensive software utility packages (which range from US $ 20 to $ 50) are available worldwide through retail outlets and Internet download. All TRG Products are available direct from TRG.
TRG products is located at 2851 104th Street, Suite H, Des Moines, IA, 50322; 515-252-7522 XO. For more information about products, customers can email: [email protected] or visit: www.superpilot.com.
Note to Editors: Palm Computing and Palm OS are registered trademarks and Palm, PalmSource, PalmPilot, Palm III and Palm IIIx are trademarks of Palm Computing Inc. or 3Com Corporation. SuperPilot, xtra xtra Pro and FlashPro are trademarks of TRG Products. IBM Workpad is a registered trademark of IBM.
CONTACT:
Breakthru Communications (for TRG Products)
Carol Hartzell, 650/637-9906
or
A&R Partners (for Palm Computing)
Rana Cho, 650/363-0982 x-3914 or Kristen Garrigus x-0