AOL calendar and contacts to sync with PC/PDA

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Source: Pumatech

Pumatech announces agreement with America Online to keep AOL calendar and contacts in sync with PC applications and handheld devices
(02/17/2003)

SAN JOSE, Calif. - (02/13/03) - Pumatech, Inc. (NASDAQ NM: PUMA), the leading provider of synchronization software and services, today announced that America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, will utilize Pumatech's Intellisync® software to provide a comprehensive synchronization solution for several America Online brands. Intellisync for AOL will enable synchronization of the AOL® Calendar, Alerts & Reminders, and Address Book with either Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express software, and with Palm OS® or Pocket PC handheld devices.

Users of Intellisync for AOL can choose between two-way or one-way synchronization (either to or from their AOL account), depending on how they want to access their information. Intellisync for AOL will synchronize AOL's Calendar, Alerts & Reminders, and Address Book with Microsoft Outlook versions 98/2000/2002, Microsoft Outlook Express versions 5.0 and 6.0, and Palm Desktop version 4.0.1 and greater. Users can also synchronize their AOL appointments and contacts directly with Palm OS devices running Palm OS 3.0 or 4.0, or with Pocket PC/Windows CE handhelds running Pocket PC 2002 or
Windows CE version 2.0 and higher.

"Intellisync for AOL will provide our members with the ability to enter calendar and contact information in a single location, and have access to it from a broad set of devices and applications," said Joel Pulliam, Vice President, Product Marketing for America Online, Inc. "We're pleased to integrate Pumatech's industry-leading sync engine into America Online's brands in order to offer this much-requested, time-saving capability to online consumers."

"America Online joins more than 200 other online services, independent software vendors and device manufacturers that have licensed our Intellisync engine to extend the capabilities of their products or services," said Pumatech's Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing Clyde Foster. "We're thrilled to be working with AOL to provide a solution that helps add even more value to the world's leading interactive service."