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Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements include statements forecasting future financial results and operating activities, market acceptance of our products, expectations for general market growth of handheld computers and other mobile computing devices, growth in demand for our products, expansion of the markets that we serve, expansion of the distribution channels for our products, adoption of our embedded products by third-party manufacturers of electronic devices, and the timing of the introduction and availability of new products, as well as other forecasts discussed under "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations." Words such as "may," "will," "predicts," "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," variations of such words, and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates, and projections about our industry, management's beliefs, and assumptions made by management. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that are difficult to predict; therefore, actual results and outcomes may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in any such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results and outcomes to differ materially include, but are not limited to: the risk of delays in the availability of our products due to technological, market or financial factors including the availability of necessary working capital; our ability to successfully develop, introduce and market future products; the change in gross margins between current and future products; our ability to effectively manage and contain our operating costs; events in the U.S. and world economy, financial markets and credit markets; the availability of announced third-party handheld computer hardware and software that our products are intended to work with; product delays associated with new model introductions and product changeovers by the makers of products that our products are intended to work with; continued growth in demand for handheld computers; market acceptance of emerging standards such as Bluetooth and wireless LAN and of our related connection, data collection, and mobile handheld computer products; the ability of our strategic relationships to benefit our business as expected; our ability to enter into additional distribution relationships; or other factors described in this Form 10-Q including "Part II, Item 1A. Risk Factors" and recent Form 8-K, Form 10-Q and Form 10-K reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We assume no obligation to update such forward-looking statements or to update the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements.

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Revenues
We are a producer of mobile computing hardware and data collection systems serving the hospitality, healthcare, retail, automotive and other Business Mobility vertical markets. We offer a family of handheld computer products and a wide range of data collection and connectivity peripheral products for use with third-party vertical handheld computing applications software and devices. Our peripheral products work with many third-party mobile handheld devices including Smartphones, handheld computers, tablet computers, ultra-mobile computers, and notebooks, adding data collection and connectivity capabilities to these devices. Our products are designed to enable the accessing, collection and processing of data by employees while mobile. Our products utilize popular Bluetooth and wireless LAN wireless connection technologies. Our plug-in and Bluetooth data collection products offer a variety of data collection technologies including laser and imager barcode scanning engines capable of reading linear (1D) and two dimensional (2D) barcodes, plus we offer RFID (radio frequency identification) and magnetic stripe readers. We also offer embedded Bluetooth and wireless LAN products for use in the mobile products of third-party original equipment manufacturers.

We work with more than 200 software integration companies that are offering or developing vertical software applications for use with handheld computers and mobile phones. Healthcare has been a primary area of focus for our software integration partners and more than half of our handheld computer sales now come from organizations within the healthcare industry. Other vertical markets benefiting from our mobile solutions include hospitality, retail merchandising, automotive, government and education. These mobile solutions are designed to improve the productivity of business enterprises and service providers by automating manual tasks, improving the quality of information collected, and enhancing mobile productivity by processing and transferring information from remote locations and mobile devices to the business enterprise, and then if required, back to the remote locations and mobile devices.

We believe that growth in the mobile workforce, technical advances and cost reductions in mobile devices and networking technologies, and the pervasive use of the Internet are driving broader adoption of mobile computing. Our products are designed to address the growing need for mobile computing by today's mobile workforce by enabling them to access, collect and process data while mobile, thereby enhancing their productivity, allowing them to exploit time sensitive opportunities and improving customer satisfaction. We make available to original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs") the Bluetooth and wireless LAN wireless technologies that we incorporate in our own products through the sale of modules and plug-in cards that these manufacturers embed into their products, including driver and device management software that is designed to simplify the ability of mobile employees to get and stay connected with Wi-Fi as well as with Bluetooth. Overall, our products enable the integration of hardware, software and applications into complete mobile data collection and connectivity solutions.

Most of our products, except our OEM embedded products, are sold through distributors and resellers that serve business customers. Our OEM embedded products are sold directly to the manufacturers of devices in which our products are embedded. The geographic regions we serve include the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Total revenues for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009 were $4.6 million and $13.5 million, respectively, which represented decreases of 43% and 38%, respectively, from revenues of $7.5 million and $13.7 million in the corresponding periods one year ago.

Our revenues in the comparable three and nine month periods may be classified into three broad product families:

º Mobile handheld computer products;
º Mobile peripheral products: data collection, connectivity and serial; and
º OEM embedded products.

Our mobile handheld computer products are designed to be durable devices that have features similar to heavier duty industrial handheld devices but at a significantly lower price. Our initial model, the SoMo® 650 (SoMo is derived from Socket Mobile), was introduced in June 2007 with initial volume shipments in September 2007, and features the Microsoft Windows Mobile Classic operating system, Versions 5 and 6. Windows Mobile is the industry standard OS for mobile applications, thereby enabling the SoMo to be compatible with a large number of business applications and giving users a familiar computing environment. Our mobile handheld computers are easy to customize for a particular application by adding peripherals. The SoMo products have an expected product life cycle of three to five years to address the needs of our customers who are deploying mobile solutions. The SoMo's features include wireless LAN and Bluetooth, a fast processor, a large, bright screen display enabling its use outdoors, large amounts of SDRAM and flash memory, extended battery life, programmable action buttons to activate peripheral devices, reinforced CompactFlash and SDIO card slots, and a durable case. The SoMo is available with multiple language support and includes our Bluetooth, wireless LAN and barcode scanning software. The SoMo 650 was specifically designed without an integrated mobile phone to serve the market for business mobility applications that do not depend on mobile phone connections such as medication dispensing in the healthcare market or serving tables in the hospitality market, many of which use Bluetooth or wireless LAN connections for data communications. In late 2008, we introduced the SoMo 650Rx with an antimicrobial additive incorporated into its plastic case for the healthcare market. The antimicrobial material that is embedded into the plastics provides an extra layer of protection to the devices against the spread and multiplication of potentially harmful bacteria and microbes. In April 2009 we extended our line of antimicrobial products for the healthcare market to include our Cordless Hand Scanners and CompactFlash Scan Cards. We also offer a SoMo 650DX without Bluetooth or wireless LAN for high security environments. In the third quarter of 2009 we began shipping our SoMo 650 Back Pack Broadband ExpressCard Adapter, which attaches to the back of our SoMo 650 and accepts pre-certified and approved Novatel Wireless ExpressCards to extend the functionality of the SoMo 650 to include anytime, anywhere, data connectivity over a wide area network (WAN). The SoMo 650 Back Pack is available in both a standard version and an antimicrobial version for use in healthcare applications. Mobile handheld computer products represented approximately 36% of our revenues in each of the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2009, compared to 19% and 15% of our revenues in the corresponding periods one year ago. The increases in the comparable periods are due to the combined effects of increases in mobile handheld computer product revenues in each of the comparable periods and lower revenues in other product categories in the comparable periods.

Our mobile peripheral products consist of data collection, connectivity and serial products, which together represented approximately 40% and 44% of our revenues for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, compared to 44% and 50% of our revenues for the corresponding periods one year ago.

Our data collection products enable the electronic collection of data from barcodes, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, or magnetic stripes and consist of:

º barcode scanning products that plug into or connect wirelessly to handheld computers, tablet computers, ultra-mobile computers, notebook computers and smartphones that use Windows Mobile, Windows CE, Windows 7/Vista/XP, RIM Blackberry, Nokia E61, E61i, and E71 operating systems, and turn these devices into portable barcode scanners and RFID readers that can be used in various retail and industrial workplaces. Our cordless hand scanner and cordless ring scanner may also be connected wirelessly to a desktop computer, enabling mobile barcode scanning around a fixed workstation;
º RFID plug-in products that read radio frequency identification tags;
º a combination plug-in barcode scanner and RFID reader; and
º a plug-in magnetic stripe reader.

Our plug-in and Bluetooth cordless data collection products offer a variety of data collection technologies at several performance levels including laser and imager barcode scanning engines capable of reading linear (1D) and two dimensional (2D) barcodes and RFID readers, enabling solutions to be tailored to optimal price/performance levels. Our plug-in barcode scanners are available in both CompactFlash and SDIO form factors. In April 2009 we began offering versions of our CompactFlash Scan Card and Bluetooth Cordless Hand Scanner with antimicrobial material embedded into the plastics to provide an extra layer of protection to the devices against the spread and multiplication of potentially harmful bacteria and microbes. We also offer a cordless ring scanner worn on the index finger which connects to computing systems using the Bluetooth standard for short-range wireless connectivity. We have developed extensive barcode scanning and RFID reading software called SocketScan that supports all of our data collection products, and have software developer kits that assist third-party developers in integrating our SocketScan software and our hardware products into their applications and solutions. Data collection products represented approximately 32% and 33% of our revenues for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, compared to 34% and 38% of our revenues in the corresponding periods one year ago.

Our connectivity products are connection devices that can be plugged into standard CompactFlash or Secure Digital SDIO expansion slots in handheld computers, tablet computers, ultra mobile computers, and notebook computers that use Windows Mobile, Windows 7/Vista/XP, or Windows Tablet operating systems. These products allow users to connect their devices via Ethernet or telephone to communicate with other networks and devices such as desktop computers, other handheld computers, tablet computers, ultra-mobile computers, and notebook computers, smartphones and printers. Our connectivity products include:

º modems for telephone connections that connect over a cable;
º Ethernet cards for local area network connections that connect over a cable; and
º accessory products such as batteries and cables.

Connectivity products represented approximately 4% and 5% of our revenues for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, compared to 6% of our revenues in each of the corresponding periods one year ago.

Our serial products enable the connection of a mobile computer to electronic devices either as a plug-in card (one, two or four ports) connecting over cables, or wirelessly over a Bluetooth network. During 2008 we introduced a USB to serial connector to enable a serial connection through a USB interface and in the second quarter of 2009 we introduced a USB to Ethernet Adapter. Serial products represented approximately 4% and 6% of our revenues for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, and 2008. On September 30, 2009, we entered into an asset purchase agreement pursuant to which we sold our serial product line to Quatech, Inc. (see "Note 8 - Sale of Product Line Assets" for more information).

Our OEM embedded products consist of Bluetooth and wireless LAN modules and plug-in cards used primarily by OEMs of industrial grade handheld computers and other devices to build wireless connection functions into their products using the Bluetooth and wireless LAN standards for wireless connectivity. Our plug-in cards and modules using the Bluetooth standard for short-range wireless connectivity include extensive communications software enabling the use of these products. Our products use the Bluetooth 2.0 standard, and we plan to upgrade later in 2009 to the Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR standard, continuing our commitment to keep our products current with evolving technology standards. Our plug-in cards for connecting to local wireless networks during 2008 used the wireless LAN 802.11b/g (or Wi-Fi) standard and included extensive communications software designed to make these products easy to use. Our wireless LAN software is certified for Cisco Compatible Extensions (CCX) 4.0 which enables our wireless LAN products to be compatible with a Cisco wireless LAN infrastructure. In April 2009 we announced availability of our SDIO wireless LAN plug-in card upgraded to incorporate the wireless LAN 802.11 a/b/g standard. OEM embedded products represented approximately 24% and 20% of our revenues for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, compared to 37% and 35% of our revenues for the corresponding periods one year ago.

Our revenues by product family for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, and the corresponding increase or decrease in revenues for the comparable periods are shown in the following table:

(revenues in                   Three Months Ended                           Nine Months Ended
thousands)                       September 30,                                September 30,
                                                 Increase                                      Increase
Product family:        2009         2008        (Decrease)          2009          2008        (Decrease)
  Mobile handheld
computer products    $ 1,653      $ 1,512              9 %       $  4,932      $  3,219             53 %
  Mobile
peripheral
products:
    Data
collection             1,463        2,727            (46 %)         4,430         8,288            (47 %)
    Connectivity         166          483            (66 %)           657         1,389            (53 %)
    Serial
products                 202          326            (38 %)           792         1,303            (39 %)
  OEM embedded
products               1,090        2,971            (63 %)         2,678         7,482            (64 %)
    Total            $ 4,574      $ 8,019            (43 %)      $ 13,489      $ 21,681            (38 %)

Our mobile handheld computer product revenues in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009 were $1.7 million and $4.9 million, an increase of 9% and 53% compared to revenues of $1.5 million and $3.2 million in the corresponding periods one year ago. We began shipping our first mobile handheld computer, the SoMo 650, to customers through our distribution channel in the second quarter of 2007. In the third quarter of 2007, we completed our objectives of ramping up production and fully stocking our distribution channel to enable the commencement of widespread customer evaluation, qualification, and deployment. We began offering Windows Mobile 6 Classic and multiple language support for the SoMo 650 in the second quarter of 2008, giving customers a choice of operating systems and languages to best fit their needs. In late 2008, we introduced the SoMo 650Rx with an antimicrobial case for the healthcare market designed to reduce the risk of the spread of bacteria from the use of handheld devices in a healthcare environment, and the SoMo 650DX without Bluetooth or wireless LAN for high security environments. Increased revenues from our mobile handheld computer products in the three and nine months of 2009 compared to the same quarter one year ago, reflect higher sales volumes due to a growing customer base with larger average unit deployments. Although the comparable three and nine months indicate growth in our mobile handheld computer revenues, we believe this growth has been slowed by the worldwide economic slowdown, as our customers are taking longer to make their deployment decisions. In the third quarter of 2009, mobile handheld computer revenues declined by 2% compared to the previous second quarter, due to the completion of a year long roll-out to a key customer in the healthcare market early in the third quarter. Declines in sales to this key customer were partially offset by growth in sales to existing customers in healthcare and other markets, which grew at a rate of 14% over the previous quarter. In the second quarter of 2009 mobile handheld computer revenues grew by 5% compared to the previous first quarter of 2009, and in the first quarter of 2009 mobile handheld computer revenues grew by 2% compared to the previous fourth quarter of 2008.

Our data collection product revenues in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009 were $1.5 million and $4.4 million, a decrease of 46% and 47% compared to revenues of $2.7 million and $8.3 million in the corresponding periods one year ago. Revenue declines in the comparable three and nine month periods were due primarily to lower sales volumes of our primary scanning products including our CompactFlash In-Hand Scan card, our Cordless Hand Scanner, and our SDIO In-Hand Scan card. Our data collection product revenues have been slowed in the first nine months of 2009 by the worldwide economic slowdown.

Our connectivity product revenues in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009 were $0.2 million and $0.7 million, a decrease of 66% and 53% compared to revenues of $0.5 million and $1.4 million in the corresponding periods one year go. The declines in each of the comparable periods resulted from reduced sales volumes of our Modem plug-in products and Ethernet plug-in products due to reduced corporate deployment of these wired connection solutions.

Our serial product revenues in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009 were $202,000 and $792,000, a decrease of 38% and 39% compared to revenues of $483,000 and $1,303,000 in the corresponding periods one year ago. Revenue decreases in the three and nine months were from reduced sales of our standard serial PC card products. Our standard serial PC card products are primarily sold to connect peripheral devices or other electronic equipment to notebook computers. On September 30, 2009, we entered into an asset purchase agreement pursuant to which we sold our serial product line to Quatech, Inc. (see "Note 8
- Sale of Product Line Assets" for more information).

Our OEM embedded product revenues in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009 were $1.1 million and $2.7 million, a decrease of 63% and 64% compared to $3.0 million and $7.5 million in the corresponding periods one year ago. Revenue decreases of $1.8 million and $4.4 million in the three and nine month comparable periods were from reduced sales of our Bluetooth modules to our OEM customers as a result of phasing out older Bluetooth technology and a last-buy purchase program completing in early 2009. Our OEM customers made last-buy Bluetooth module purchases beginning in the third quarter of 2008, with the majority of these shipments occurring in the latter half of 2008, followed by final remaining shipments in 2009 completed primarily in the first quarter. Additional declines of $0.3 million in each of the three and nine month comparable periods were from reduced sales of our wireless LAN plug-in cards. Sales of our Bluetooth plug-in cards increased in the third quarter of 2009 compared to the comparable period a year ago, due to last-buy purchases of these products in the third quarter of 2009. Sales of our Bluetooth plug-in cards for the nine months of 2009 declined from the comparable period one year ago. Partially offsetting these declines were increases in sales of our wireless LAN modules in each of the comparable periods.

Gross Margins
Gross margins in each of the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2009 were 45%, compared to margins of 46% and 48% in the corresponding periods in 2008. We generally price our products as a markup from our cost, and we offer discount pricing for higher volume purchases. Reductions in overall margins in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009 compared to the same periods one year ago are due primarily to increased sales of our mobile handheld computer, which comprised 36% of our revenues each of the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2009, compared to 19% and 15% in the corresponding periods one year ago. Margins on our mobile handheld computer are below our average product margins. Additional margin declines in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009 are due to our fixed overhead costs, which comprise a greater portion of the overall revenues and cost of goods sold due to lower revenues in the first three quarters of 2009 compared to the same quarters one year ago. Gross margins in the fourth quarter of 2009 are expected to remain at levels similar to the third quarter gross margins.

Research and Development Expense
Research and development expense for the three months ended September 30, 2009 was $0.7 million, a decrease of 40% compared to research and development expense of $1.1 million in the corresponding period one year ago. Research and development expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2009 was $2.2 million, a decline of 37% compared to research and development expense of $3.4 million in the corresponding period one year ago. Sixty three percent of the reduction in research and development expense in the comparable three and nine month periods was due to reduced personnel costs as the result of a reduction-in-force action initiated in the fourth quarter of 2008, followed by additional reductions in employee compensation and related expense during the first nine months of 2009. In the fourth quarter of 2008 the Company initiated a range of expense reductions across all departments and functional expense categories in response to the worldwide economic slowdown, with additional reductions following in the first and second quarters of 2009, and a continuation of the reduced expense levels through the third quarter of 2009. Additional reductions in research and development expense in the comparable three and nine month periods were from reduced development fees due to a reduction in product development activities, and reduced equipment costs related to the reductions in product development activities. Research and development expense in the fourth quarter of 2009 is expected to continue at levels similar to the previous third quarter.

Sales and Marketing Expense
Sales and marketing expense for the three months ended September 30, 2009 was $1.2 million, a decrease of 39% compared to $2.0 million in the corresponding period one year ago. Sales and marketing expense for the nine month period ended September 30, 2009 was $3.9 million, a decrease of 33% compared to sales and marketing expense of $5.9 million in the corresponding period one year ago. Three quarters of the reduction in sales and marketing expense in the three and nine month comparable periods was due to reduced personnel costs as a result of the reduction-in-force action initiated in the fourth quarter of 2008 referred to above and further reductions in employee compensation and related expense during the first nine months of 2009. Additional notable reductions in sales and marketing expense in the comparable three and nine month periods were in the categories of advertising and promotion expense, travel, outside services, and equipment costs. Sales and marketing expense in the fourth quarter of 2009 is expected to continue at levels similar to the previous third quarter.

General and Administrative Expense
General and administrative expense for the three months ended September 30, 2009 was $0.5 million, a decrease of 17% compared to general and administrative expense of $0.6 million in the corresponding period one year ago. General and administrative expense for the nine month period ended September 30, 2009 was . . .