Microsoft's Windows CE operating system is the key competing technology.
Palm licenses their operating system and manufactures the handheld devices.
A number of other companies, such as Handspring , manufacture competing, compatible hardware using technology licensed from Palm. These products offer a range of capabilities. The high-end, wireless products receive information via modem. Mary Fallon , who manages higher education markets for Palm, expects Bluetooth technology to make wireless capabilities widely available to schools, campuses and individual students. Fallon, for example, anticipates a day when a campus will have a beaming station.