AT&T Corp is disengaging from just about the last of its proprietary on-line services, saying yesterday that its AT&T PersonaLink Services for handhelds will be discontinued on August 30. It also says it is following Burda AG out of Europe Online SA , where it inherited a 10.8% stake when it bought Ziff Communications Co’s embryonic, and now aborted, on-line service. It says PersonaLink employees will be reassigned to other parts of the company. The business performed customized messaging tasks using the General Magic Inc Telescript scripting language for users of Sony Corp Magic Link and Motorola Inc Envoy personal communicators. It says airily that users of these will still be able to use the devices for mobile messaging through service s such as that of America Online Inc or through the use of third-party software.
