AT&T adds new look and features to its World Wide Web site.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 1996--AT&T today introduced an updated corporate web site (www.att.com), designed to offer information updated daily about the new AT&T, allow customers to interact with the company, and inform about the latest developments at AT&T Labs. The site includes many interactive areas. Visitors can apply for an AT&T Universal Card or switch long distance carriers to AT&T. They can request a grant from the AT&T Foundation or enroll a school in the AT&T Learning Network. Visitors can look up toll-free numbers, receive help with homework or plan a trip abroad. The new site showcases AT&T Labs, with a wealth of information and activities for students, the scientific community and others interested in Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and communications technologies Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry . For those interested in emerging technologies, the site offers demonstrations of text to voice synthesis and a program to search Usenet (USEr NETwork) A public access network on the Internet that provides user news and group e-mail. It is a giant, dispersed bulletin board that is maintained by volunteers who provide news and mail feeds to other nodes. groups. Another site, Brain Spin, helps students understand communications science. Other new areas cover AT&T Wireless Services, including the new digital PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. and the AT&T Learning Network, the company's $150 million effort to support education. The site features information on AT&T's global initiatives, public policy positions, offerings for business and consumer long distance services, the Internet, wireless services, digital satellite television and AT&T Universal Card. The look of the new site was created by top interactive designer Rob Greenberg Green·berg , Joseph Harold Born 1915. American linguist. His influential works include Languages of Africa (1966) and Language Universals (1966). Noun 1. and his company, RGA RGA Reinsurance Group of America RGA Return Goods Authorization RGA Republican Governors Association RGA Residual Gas Analyzer RGA Royal Garrison Artillery RGA Restricted Growth Association (UK) RGA Rate Gyro Assembly , along with Modem Media. The site is hosted by AT&T Easy Commerce. Both the corporate web site and AT&T's internal Intranet are adopting the same design to serve customers as well as the information needs of AT&T employees around the world. "The web site allows us to reach millions of customers worldwide and to find news ways of providing them with the highest level of information, service and customer care," said Steve Block, executive director of the AT&T web site. "www.att.com complements AT&T's effort to keep our customers at the forefront of Internet technologies." Some of the sites: AT&T Home Page http://www.att.com AT&T Labs http://www.att.com/attlabs Brain Spin http://www.att.com/attlabs/demo/brainspin.html Camera Cruiser cruiser, large, fast, moderately armed warship, intermediate in type between the aircraft carrier and the destroyer. During World War II, battle cruisers operated as small battleships, combining in one vessel maximum qualities of gun caliber, armor protection, and http://www.att.com/attlabs/demo/camera Text to Speech http://www.att.com/attlabs/demo/talkbalk.html Digital Satellite TV http://www.att.com/truetv/ AT&T WorldNet Service http://www.att.com/worldnet/wis/ India Horizons http://www.att.com/indiahorizens Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. http://www.att.com/latin_america Support for education http://www.att.com/learning_network AT&T Stockholders http://www.att.com/investor/ AT&T Universal Card http://www.att.com/ucs/ Business Services http://www.att.com/business/ CONTACT: John Heath
908-221-6659 (office) 201-543-0811 (home) jheath@attmail.com or Rick Wallerstein 201-564-4884 (office) 908-771-9570 (home) rwallerstein@attmail.com |
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