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- Bluetooth SIG director Foley: Don't confuse Bluetooth and Wibree
- Bluetooth SIG director Foley: Don't confuse Bluetooth and WibreeAll those radio waves...Has anyone given serious consideration to all those radio waves passing through our bodies as we continue to put these wireless devices all over our body?!
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth SIG, Wibree, radio wave, Bluetooth
- Discussion threads 2006-10-04
- Bluetooth SIG director Foley: Don't confuse Bluetooth and Wibree
- Mike Foley, the executive director of the Bluetooth SIG (the multi-vendor special interest group that plays chaperone to Bluetooth standards), has responded in his blog to a post of mine yesterday about whether or not Nokias Wibree wireless technology is a gauntlet, one that could end up being substituted for...
- Tags: Bluetooth, Wibree
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- Ultra Wideband standards issues resolved: devices expected by 2008
- After years of fits and starts, most of the leading consumer electronics manufacturers have announced they will use a faster version of Bluetooth wireless technology to move video between devices in the homeThe technology will also govern how televisions, PCs and video recorders will be connected. Up until now,...
- Tags: WiMedia Alliance, UWB
- Blog posts 2006-03-28
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- News to know: Microsoft patches; Vista SP1 speed; Firefox 3; Mobile World Congress
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microsoft delivers 11 patches, 6 critical Firefox 3 Beta 3 steps up its security game Firefox 3.0 beta 3 is out John Morris: The battle for the soul of your smartphone Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Some systems showing incredible SP1 performance boost...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Congress, Patch Management, Microsoft Windows Vista, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Web Browsers, Handhelds, Internet, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- MWC08: Bluetooth SIG creating spec to harness speed of WiFi
- I am a big fan of Bluetooth technology and am actually using a Think Outside Bluetooth keyboard to type this article on my new Fujitsu U810 Tablet PC. Blair sent me some big news from the Bluetooth SIG announcing that they are developing a new radio substitution method that will...
- Tags: Radio, Architecture, Bluetooth, Ultrawideband (UWB), Wi-Fi, Wireless, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- CTIA 2007: Bluetooth 2.1+EDR spec released with improved pairing enhancements
- I dont buy a mobile device without integrated Bluetooth and it is now a fairly standard spec on feature phones and smartphones. Blair, from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group sent over a press release from CTIA announcing that Bluetooth Core Specification Version 2.1 + EDR Enhanced Data Rate will soon...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, CTIA, Bluetooth
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- Use TransSend to wirelessly transfer content from a web browser to your mobile device
- I am a fan of Bluetooth technology and will not buy a mobile device that does not at least include Bluetooth as it reduces cable clutter in my gear bag. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group SIG issued a press release announcing its new TransSend client/server application that allows you to...
- Tags: Bluetooth, TransSend
- Blog posts 2006-10-12
- How to address Bluetooth's braindeath: Market it better
- How to address Bluetooth's braindeath: Market it betterBluetoothlessnessI bought a Moto 551v BECAUSE it had bluetooth and therefore would let my Zire 72 get online. Of course, it didn't. Motorola & PalmOne each blaimed the other. So, I sold both on eBay and got a Zire...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, network
- Discussion threads 2006-06-16
- How to address Bluetooth's braindeath: Market it better
- The Bluetooth SIG -- the chaperone of Bluetooth Standards -- has come up with a series of icons that could potentially allay some of the confusion over what it takes for two or more devices with Bluetooth radios in them to wirelessly interoperate with each other....
- Tags: Bluetooth
- Blog posts 2006-06-16
- Bluetooth blues, cell phones for kids and what I did on my back surgery vacation
- It's been two weeks since my back surgery and while it hasn't exactly been a vacation, I have been taking the time to do and pay attention to things that don't require a lot of sitting the hardest thing to do. It's relatively easy to click around...
- Tags: WEB SITES, cell phone, telephone
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- BluefishRx Prescription Writer 6.70 (Mobile)
- BluefishRx is an application for Palm handhelds that streamlines the prescription writing process. With BluefishRx, physicians can manage patient details and drug history, choose from a database of over 2,500 drugs, and write prescriptions directly on their handheld in seconds. BluefishRx is now fully integrated with ePocratesRx. Look up drug...
- Tags: Patient, Mobile, Handheld, Prescription, Bluefish Wireless, BluefishRx, Rx, BluefishRx Fax Server
- Software downloads 2006-02-10
- Cellcos too slow on new smartphone turnaround time
- Here at Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Florida, HP announced its new iPAQ hw6500 Mobile Messenger smartphone. In a separate blog entry, there's a picture and I've detailed my first impressions of the device. But if you want to skip the movie, my take in that blog entry was to skip...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, smart phone
- Blog posts 2005-10-18
- Ohhh. The pain, the pain: The Bluetooth pain
- Ohhh. The pain, the pain: The Bluetooth painyea....bluetooth sucks, always has.great idea, horribly implemented, anything in the works to replace this P.O.S. ?- SamBluetooth configuration is way too complicatedBluetooth is way too complex for mere mortals to configure. I had my share of problems figuring it out. Once...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, encryption, Bluetooth configuration, Bluetooth
- Discussion threads 2005-07-25
- Ohhh. The pain, the pain: The Bluetooth pain
- If you read my recent post on how EV-DO saved the day during a recent heat-wave induced blackout in New England, then you'd know that I was accessing my company's corporate network through a virtual private network connection VPN that involved my Thinkpad T42 connected via Bluetooth to a Verizon...
- Tags: Mike Foley, Bluetooth, Verizon Wireless
- Blog posts 2005-07-25
- Is Bluetooth past its prime?
- For over five years, two of the supposedly killer wireless technologies -- Bluetooth and Wi-Fi -- have been marching to the beats of their own drummers. Whereas before, the two wireless technologies had almost nothing in common with each other and were designed to address distinctly different needs, now...
- Tags: wireless, David Reed, Bluetooth
- Blog posts 2005-05-01
- Bluetooth may not be able to handle EV-DO (3G) nets
- When Bob Frankston isn't busy figuring out how to fix the Internet (he loves to tell you what's wrong with it), he's tinkering with bleeding edge technologies, often to see how well they interoperate. Two wireless technologies Frankston has been playing around with are EV-DO and Bluetooth. Frankston has...
- Tags: Bob Frankston, Bluetooth, EVDO
- Blog posts 2005-04-11
- ANYCOM Blue CF-300 Card 2.40.237.095 (Windows)
- ANYCOM Blue CF-300 Card: The ANYCOM Blue Compact Flash Card CF-300 with the additional PC Card Adapter allows a wide range of computing products to become Bluetooth® wireless technology enabled. You can use this ANYCOM CF-300 Card in all Notebooks and Tablet PCs with a PC Card slot, but also...
- Tags: Card, Phone, PC, Microsoft Windows, PC Card, Anycom, CF Card, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Desktops, Wireless, Hardware
- Software downloads 2004-12-01
- Ericsson shutters Bluetooth group in response to tech's commoditization
- Ericsson, a key pioneer of Bluetooth technology, was probably acknowledging the inevitable last week when it began shuttering a 125-person division that was dedicated to developing the promising short-range personal area networking technology. With standards coalescing around the work being done in the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, it probably doesn't make sense...
- Tags: Ericsson Inc., Bluetooth
- Blog posts 2004-08-30
- Brain Boxes USB Bluetooth Adapter BL-554 5.1.2600.2180 (Windows)
- Brain Boxes USB Bluetooth Adapter BL-554: Brainboxes USB Bluetooth adapter allows a personal computer with a USB socket to communicate with other Bluetooth devices.Brainboxes Bluetooth device supports many Bluetooth profiles, upgradeable firmware, is fully qualified by the Bluetooth SIG and has Microsoft Hardware logo approval. Being mobile no longer limits...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, USB, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Software downloads 2004-08-03
- BH4-X For Series 60 Bluetooth Developers 1.03c (Mobile)
- New! Works with Nokia Symbian OS SDK for Series 60 Version 2.1 Beta!DescriptionIf you develop Bluetooth wireless technology enabled applications for Nokia Series 60 mobiles, BH4-X from CYBERABI is an easy-to-use Windows 2000 device driver that can help with your debugging.BH4-X allows industry standard USB adapters enabled with Bluetooth wireless...
- Tags: Developer, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Adapter, Industry Standard, SDK, CYBERABI, BH4-X, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Chipsets, Wireless And Mobility, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2004-03-27
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