Palm Tungsten C Handheld Includes Mergic PPTP in ROM

First Palm OS Handheld to include integrated VPN Support in ROM

SAMMAMISH, Wash., April 23, 2003 - Mergic, Inc., announced that a version of its Mergic™ Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) VPN client is included in the ROM of the new Palm™ Tungsten C handheld. The Tungsten C handheld is the first Palm OS device to include an integrated VPN client. This integrated VPN support enables individuals needing behind-the-firewall access to securely check email, browse the web or company intranet and wirelessly synchronize with their desktop to back up information and manage email.

About the Palm Tungsten C Handheld
The Palm Tungsten C handheld is Palm, Inc.'s most powerful handheld computer with built-in high-speed wireless connectivity to address what campus networkers want most in a handheld. It is Palm's first device to ship with integrated Wi-Fi, or 802.11b, for wireless campus connectivity. It offers 64MB of memory (51MB usable) to manage data-intensive applications; 400MHz of ARM processing power; a 320 x 320 transflective TFT display (Palm's sharpest screen to date for indoor and outdoor viewing); and integrated, full-featured business applications, such as VersaMail(TM) 2.5 for email, and DataViz Documents To Go for efficiently managing Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint compatible documents. More information is available at www.palm.com/tungsten-c.

About Mergic
Mergic is a privately owned mobile computing company in Sammamish, Washington and its Web site is www.mergic.com. The company was founded in 2001 with a focus on providing easy to use, high performance software to provide secure connectivity for the mobile user.

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