The companies plan to make their services available for mobile phones and Palm hand-held devices.

This meant that whatever they built would work with the thousands of applications already available for the Palm device.

Adapters are also available for use with Palm devices and digital cameras.

It uses the pilot-link libraries to communicate with Palm devices.

It can beam files, "business cards" and programs by infrared to other Palm devices.

There are thousands of programs available for the Palm devices.

About five million people use Palm devices, and the company controls perhaps two-thirds of the worldwide market for hand-held computers.

Recently, it also managed to strike a deal to display its Web site on Palm devices.

During the three months, the company shipped 750,000 Palm devices, bringing its cumulative sales to more than 14 million.

I've been doing that for years with my Palm devices.