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■ Customer Care. See the Getting Started guide for the support
e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
■ Convenient credit card billing.
The network
The Internet is often described as a “network of networks,” and the
Palm.Net network is just another network tied into the Internet.
The advantage of the Palm.Net network is that your organizer has a
wireless, over-the-air connection to it. So long as one of the radio
transmitter/receivers of the network can pick up the signal sent by
your organizer — referred to as being “within coverage” — you can
use query applications and the iMessenger application.
Note: See the important notice at the beginning of this chapter about
observing regulations on the use of wireless devices on
airplanes and in other locations where their use may be
restricted.
Protection of your wireless transactions
Your organizer is equipped with next generation encryption
technology from Certicom. This encryption technology is used to
secure your credit card number when you activate the Palm.Net
service. It is also used by various query applications to secure the
transmission of sensitive information such as messages and
passwords that are sent over the Palm.Net network. Data is protected
both when sent from your organizer over the network and when
coming in from the Internet directly to your organizer.
When a wireless transaction is secured, the command button that
initiates the transaction is marked not only by the over-the-air icon,
but also by the security icon.
Encryption makes your data unreadable by anyone but the intended
recipient. Encryption is done using elliptic curve cryptography, a
technology developed by Certicom and used in a wide variety of
consumer handheld devices and enterprise applications. For more
information about Certicom’s encryption technology, visit the
Certicom web site http://www.certicom.com.
The security icon indicates that
your transmission is encrypted