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■ The Palm.Net web clipping application, in which you can also
track your usage of the service and learn about the service and its
features.
■ 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 handheld 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 handheld — referred to as being “within coverage” — you can
use web clipping 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 handheld 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 web clipping 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 handheld over the network and when
coming in from the Internet directly to your handheld.
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.
The security icon indicates that
your transmission is encrypted