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October 26 1992 "GO Introduces messaging and FAX capabilities for PenPoint;
communications companies develop links to new GO Message Center.  GO Message
Center simplifies FAX and E-mail communication"  "GO Corp. and AT&T EasyLink
Services establish worldwide network for PenPoint users"

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Contact:  Dayna Deaton                  Kim Carsten
          GO Corporation                Regis McKenna Inc.
          [phone]                [phone]


GO Introduces Messaging and Fax Capabilities for PenPoint;
Communications Companies Develop
Links to New GO Message Center
GO Message Center Simplifies Fax and E-Mail Communication

FOSTER CITY, Calif. -- October 26, 1992 -- GO Corporation announced
today that it will provide a tightly integrated set of
object-oriented messaging components, called the GO Message Center,
as a standard part of the PenPoint mobile operating system.  The new
GO Message Center components include GO Mail, a full-featured
electronic mail engine and universal messaging interface; an AT&T
Mail communication link; the GO Address Book, a system-wide address
directory accessible from any PenPoint application; and a Dialing
Location Sheet that keeps track of information needed to access long
distance or outside lines, or bill calls to a credit card.  In
addition, GO announced its first commercially available software
application that builds on the GO Message Center--GO Fax.  Both will
be available in the fourth quarter of 1992.

The GO Message Center allows PenPoint users to connect to numerous
public and private E-mail networks, and by taking advantage of
PenPoint's notebook style user interface, makes messaging accessible,
practical and easy.  Because of GO's object-oriented approach, users
can easily create customized messaging interfaces.  For example,
users can copy interface elements such as send/reply buttons,
recipient lists or subject fields directly from the GO Mail user
interface to any PenPoint document, creating customized communication
forms.

GO Fax, fully integrated with the GO Message Center, lets users
easily send and receive Group 3 faxes (a standard fax protocol) from
their PenPoint mobile computers.  Using a familiar electronic fax
cover sheet, users can communicate with standard fax machines, PCs
with fax boards, and other GO Fax users around the world.

"For the first time on any operating system, people can manage all
types of messages in a single place, with a single, common
interface," said Bill Campbell, GO's president and chief executive
officer.  "Unlike existing products which enable computer-to-computer
communications, the GO Message Center addresses the needs of today's
mobile workers by enabling a more individual type of communications:
person-to-person.  "Users will be able to access and store all types
of messages--including handwritten electronic ink, text, graphics, or
voice--and send any message or document to any E-mail address or fax
number using a consistent, paper-like user interface.  This is what
people have been asking for--it will make messaging accessible to a
much broader audience."

GO Message Center:  New Messaging Components Built into PenPoint
Operating System

The new messaging components comprising the GO Message Center are
built on top of PenPoint's object-oriented mobile communications
architecture.  PenPoint's systemwide In box and Out box provide
deferred connectivity so mobile workers can send messages and faxes
without being connected to a phone line or network.  Stored messages
are sent automatically as soon as the mobile computer is connected.
If the user walks into range of a wireless network, PenPoint
automatically establishes connections in the background to make that
network available.

GO Mail is a general purpose messaging application that offers users
the simplicity of a single user interface, with the flexibility of
transparent connections to any number of messaging networks.  It
provides a single, paper like user interface, so users are presented
with a unified view of all messaging services.  GO Mail connects to
both wired and wireless messaging services via software modules
called communication links.

The GO Address Book is a directory application for storing names,
addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, E-mail addresses and others.
Since the address book is available across all PenPoint applications,
it simplifies address management for users:  all addressing
information can be managed in a single place.  And software
developers benefit by leveraging existing code--there's no need to
develop proprietary address books.  Entries can be grouped, to
simplify sending or faxing to mailing lists.  The Address Book
supports tab-delimited import and export, so it's easy to keep
addresses synchronized with external address books.

The Dialing Location Sheet lets you specify your current area code
and country code so that when you pick a fax or phone number from
your Address Book, the PenPoint operating system intelligently dials
only the numbers you need.  You can also specify outside line access,
choose long distance services and automatically charge calls to
credit card numbers.

As part of its expanded relationship with AT&T EasyLink Services, GO
will provide PenPoint users with a free communication link to AT&T
Mail.  The AT&T Mail connection is significant in that it will tie
together PenPoint users worldwide and give them access to numerous
information sources and services, including electronic bulletin
boards, store-and-forward fax services, and electronic software
distribution.  It also connects PenPoint users via gateways to
millions of existing desktop E-mail users.  (See related press
release.)

GO Mail will also connect to many wide and local area mail networks.
Novell, a major networking vendor, is currently working with GO to
build an MHS link that will allow PenPoint users to connect to the
growing base of MHS E-mail networks.  Da Vinci eMail, WordPerfect
Office and Beyond Mail are examples of E-mail systems that use
Novell's MHS transport.

"Novell recognized the needs of the mobile computer user as an
integral part of the messaging environment," said Rick Bohdanowicz,
director of Messaging Products marketing for Novell, Inc.  "The
combination of highly popular MHS message service and the GO Message
Center ensures that PenPoint mobile products can easily be used with
NetWare."

Leading wide-area wireless service companies will  support GO Mail,
providing PenPoint users with worldwide wireless communications
capabilities:
o  Motorola and GO have developed an EMBARC wireless communication
link.  EMBARC (Electronic Mail Broadcast to A Roaming Computer) is a
wireless electronic mail and data service introduced this year by
Motorola.
o  SkyTel Corporation, the leading nationwide pager-based messaging
company, is working with GO on a communication link to provide the
expansive coverage of SkyTel's Nationwide Messaging System to
PenPoint users.
o  RAM Mobile Data is partnering with GO to provide two-way wireless
packet-switched radio communications to PenPoint users, over RAM's
Mobitex network.

"We believe PenPoint is an ideal operating system for bringing
wireless communications to a broad range of pen-based users for the
mobile business person," said David W. Garrison, President of SkyTel
Corporation.  "We are pleased to be working with GO in
expanding the technology that will enable pen-based systems of all
kinds to receive wireless messages on a roaming basis throughout
North America and overseas."

GO Message Center Provides Building Blocks for Software Developers
GO is publishing the GO Message Center APIs, so both commercial and
corporate developers can reuse the components, build replacement
components, or integrate messaging programatically into their
applications.  (Although with no application code whatsoever,
PenPoint provides a  "send" command, so all applications are
automatically "mail-enabled".)  Many PenPoint developers, including
Pensoft, WordPerfect, PenMagic, Ink Development, Lotus, Notable,
Slate, Sitka and aha!, are building exciting applications that take
advantage of the GO Message Center.

GO plans to continue to focus its applications development on
personal communications and related areas.  "We want to develop
applications and components close to the operating system so that
other software developers can build upon them," said Mike Homer, GO's
vice president of marketing.  "By opening the GO Message Center to
developers, and providing the worldwide AT&T Mail network to all
PenPoint users, GO is building a foundation that will enable many
innovative communications products and services."

Price and Availability
OEMs who license PenPoint will provide the GO Message Cente, along
with the AT&T Mail communication link, as standard components of
PenPoint by the end of the year free of charge.  The Novell MHS link,
Motorola EMBARC link, SkyTel link and RAM Mobile Data Mobitex link
will be available in the first half of 1993.  GO Fax will be
available in the fourth quarter of this year and has a suggested list
price of $199.

GO Corporation, a privately held company headquartered in Foster
City, Calif., develops, markets and supports a pen-based mobile
operating system and application designed for mobile computer users
worldwide.

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PenPoint is a trademark of GO Corporation.  All other products or
brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective holders.

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Contact:  Dayna Deaton                  Bob Garnet
          GO Corporation                AT&T EasyLink Services
          [phone] or             [phone]
          Kim Carsten                   Ed Lopez
          Regis McKenna Inc.            [phone]
          [phone]

GO Corp. and AT&T EasyLink Services
Establish Worldwide Network for PenPoint Users

FOSTER CITY, Calif., -- October 26, 1992 -- Laying the foundation for a
new generation of communication devices, GO Corporation and AT&T
EasyLink Services announced a communication link that allows
PenPoint-based computer users to communicate with each other and with
millions of electronic mail users through EasyLink's network.

Using the AT&T EasyLink Services Messaging Network as a platform, GO
Corporation will provide a software communications link that connects
users of GO Mail--the universal messaging interface that is part of
the new GO Message Center--to the AT&T Mail service.  Every PenPoint
user in the world eventually will be tied together on this single
major public messaging network, giving them access to each other, to
a host of information services, and via AT&T Mail gateways to more
than 20 million E-mail users in more than 160 countries.  Over time,
GO Mail and the AT&T Mail link will allow mobile workers to browse
and retrieve information from bulletin boards and various information
services accessed by AT&T EasyLink Services worldwide electronic mail
system.

PenPoint's simple intuitive interface, combined with EasyLink's
robust messaging services, give PenPoint users an easy and simple way
to manage and send information quickly through both wired and
wireless connections.

"Messaging is the great emancipator for the new era of personal
communicators," said Gordon Bridge, president of EasyLink Services.
"Our announcement with GO

Corporation today brings together the mobile intelligence of
pen-based computing  and the ubiquitous reach of our messaging
network to free people to do business anywhere, anytime."

"We believe public mail networks are a vital means of linking mobile
users to each other, to their companies and to a world of information
services," said Bill Campbell, GO's president and chief executive
officer.  "AT&T offers the leading public E-mail network and is
committed to the needs of mobile workers."

GO and AT&T demonstrated GO Mail working with AT&T Mail at the
Electronic Messaging Association conference in San Francisco,
California.

The relationship between the two companies goes far beyond basic
E-mail.  Go and AT&T plan to provide PenPoint users with
store-and-forward fax services, bulletin boards, access to
publication databases, and even support for business transactions and
electronic software distribution.

The combination of PenPoint and EasyLink Services builds a
communications infrastructure to accommodate advances in technology.
PenPoint's object-oriented messaging automatically "mail-enables" all
PenPoint documents, and makes it easy for third party developers to
integrate messaging programmatically into their applications.

PenPoint users will receive the AT&T Mail communication link free
with PenPoint and won't have to pay a monthly access fee for using
the network.  Charges will apply only if they send a message or
access information services.

Believing that powerful communication links are vital to companies
with mobile workers, AT&T EasyLink has forged arrangements with
various companies in its goal to be the messaging leader in a broad
spectrum of environments.  Those companies include Microsoft, NCR,
RAM Mobile Data, SkyTel, Sharp and Casio.

GO Corporation, a privately held company headquartered in Foster
City, California, develops, markets and supports a pen-based mobile
operating system and applications for mobile users worldwide.

AT&T EasyLink Services is the global messaging unit of AT&T.  It
offers a broad array of messaging services, including electronic
mail, electronic data interchange, network-based facsimile service,
information services, telex and gateways from LAN-based E-Mail
systems.  Based in Parsippany, New Jersey, it provides services to
160 counties and has sales and support offices in three dozen
countries.

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          GO Corporation                         AT&T EasyLink Services
          919 E. Hillsdale Boulevard             400 Interpace Parkway
          Suite 400                              Parsippany, NJ
          07054
          Foster City, CA  94404                 Telephone [phone]
          Telephone [phone]               Facsimile [phone]
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