PalmSource opens nominations for U.S. powered up awards

- Gary Thayer, Editor

Nov. 14, 2005 -- (MobileVillage) -- PalmSource (NASDAQ:PSRC), provider of Palm OS operating system for mobile devices, today announced it has officially opened nominations for the Fall 2005 U.S. Powered Up Awards. Palm software developers can enter the awards until 6pm PST on Sunday, December 11, 2005, and Award winners will be announced on Wednesday, December 14, 2005.

The awards will be given in five categories:

The winner of the Enterprise/Productivity category will receive a Palm Treo 650 smartphone and US $1,000.

The winner of the Wireless/Over-the-Air category will receive a Palm Treo 650 smartphone and US $1,000.

The winner of the Multimedia category will receive a Palm LifeDrive mobile manager and US $1,000.

The Winner of the Games/Entertainment category will receive a Palm Tungsten E2 handheld and US $1,000..

There is also a category for In-House / Custom Application (apps not commercially available).

The winners in the first four categories will also also receive a co-marketing package valued at approximately $13,000.

For the first time, the Powered Up Awards feature a monetary prize for the Best-In-Class grand prize. The Best-In-Class grand prize winner will be selected by the judges from the nominees in the Enterprise/Productivity, Wireless/Over-The-Air, Multimedia and Games/Entertainment categories. The winner of the Best-In-Class award will receive US $10,000, a Palm, Inc. smartphone or handheld of their choice and a co-marketing package valued at approximately US $20,000.

The Fall 2005 Powered Up Awards are being co-sponsored by Palm, Inc., Cingular Wireless, PalmGear.com, a division of Motricity and CNET Download.com.

PalmSource is now accepting nominations for Powered Up Awards online at: www.palmos.com/dev/programs/poweredup.

In related news, PalmSource recently cofounded the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum, whose purpose is to accelerate the adoption of Linux in fixed, mobile and converged devices by "standardizing Linux-based services and APIs that most directly influence the development, deployment and interoperability of applications and user-level services" according to LiPS. Other founding members include France Telecom/Orange, FSM Labs, Huawei, Jaluna, MontaVista Software, MIZI Research, Open Plug, Arm, Cellon and Esmertec.

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