Dublin, Ireland, February 10, 2006 – Dr Rotan Hanrahan, MobileAware's Chief Innovations Architect and Chair of the W3C MWI Device Description Working Group (DDWG) is pleased to announce the first public draft of DDWG's "Device Description Landscape". Under the editorship of France Telecom and Argogroup, and with contributions from DDWG participants, this document describes the efforts the W3C and other organizations are doing in order to provide accurate device descriptions in support of content adaptation. According to Dr Hanrahan, "this milestone document, with its companion, the 'Device Description Ecosystem', provides significant input to the determination of requirements for a global device description solution, which will be outlined in a forthcoming document entitled 'Device Description Repository Requirements'."

MobileAware is a founding sponsor of the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative.

To access the document, please visit: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-dd-landscape-20060210

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Niamh Murphy
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