Digital Envoy Selected by AT&T to Join the AT&T Ecosystem for ASPs Program.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2002 Digital Envoy envoy: see diplomatic service. Envoy - Motorola's integrated personal wireless communicator. Envoy is a personal digital assistant which incorporates two-way wireless and wireline communication. , the leading provider of geographically intelligent Internet solutions, today announced it has been selected to join the award-winning AT&T Ecosystem for ASPs program, which combines AT&T's leading-edge managed Web hosting services A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing and network services platform with a comprehensive co-marketing and distribution program. Digital Envoy's non-invasive, patent-pending NetAcuity(TM) technology can determine the geographic location and modem connection speed of Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f down to a city level worldwide. This offers customers the ability to tailor and target Web content, control content distribution, and more effectively route network traffic. The result is that Web site visitors have an enhanced online experience as businesses can quickly serve relevant language- and currency-specific content. "Understanding the geographic location of an online user is critical for Web-based businesses to maximize sales opportunities," said Rob Friedman, executive vice president of corporate development, Digital Envoy. "Our membership in AT&T's Ecosystem program provides us with a secure and reliable environment to deliver geo-intelligent solutions that help optimize the delivery and management of Web content, as well as the ability to leverage marketing and sales assistance provided by AT&T under the program." The ability to geographically identify an Internet user's location also allows customers to grant or restrict access to protected or legally regulated content; to detect for fraud by comparing a user's "virtual" location to the location manually given at registration; and to improve marketing initiatives by analyzing Web traffic for customized content delivery. Customers using Digital Envoy's technology include AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner, Cable & Wireless, Siemens, Google, Abbott Labs, Network Associates, Speedera, Advertising.com, Avenue A and many of the largest Web sites and networks on the Internet. About Digital Envoy As the leader in geographic intelligence, Digital Envoy provides solutions that identify the location and modem connection speed of Internet users down to the city level worldwide, enabling companies to tailor Web content, control content distribution and more effectively route network traffic. Digital Envoy is headquartered in Atlanta and has offices in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Malibu, Calif., and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . For more information, visit www.digitalenvoy.net. About AT&T AT&T Corp. (www.att.com) is among the world's premier voice, video and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. companies. With annual revenues of more than $62 billion, AT&T provides services to customers worldwide. Backed by the research and development capabilities of AT&T Labs, the company runs the world's largest, most sophisticated communications network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. . The company is a leading supplier of data and Internet services for businesses and offers outsourcing, consulting and networking-integration to large businesses. |
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