AT&T Wireless Announces Web Developer’s Kit for Wireless

AT&T Wireless Services this week
introduced a Web Developer’s Kit (WDK), a toolkit designed to enable
content creators to develop wireless-enabled Web sites.

Visitors to these sites can send messages to AT&T Digital PCS, AT&T
alphanumeric paging, and AT&T PocketNetTM service wireless customers.

By using the WDK, corporations are able to provide text paging capabilities
to wireless customers from their intranet or Internet Web site. This allows
customers to leverage the power of the Net using wireless technology to
deliver quick, concise messages.

AT&T already has a similar wireless service available via their Web site as
well as using a standard e-mail application. This new technology will
enable corporations to create an instantaneous link on their site that
sends the message from the customer
to the employee.

Current uses for wireless technology on the Web center around customer
interaction. One such example is the use of a Web “send page” to generate
leads for a salesperson that has his or her products displayed on a site.
Messages would be linked invisibly to a pager number without revealing
either the number or the link to the pager.

The Web Developer’s Kit provides HTML code, graphics, guidelines for
interface, and usage examples from Web sites that are already using this
technology.

To download a copy of the WDK, visit the AT&T Wireless Services
Web WDK site.