Bluetooth News
Bluetooth was created in 1996, and from research at giant Swedish Telecoms supplier Ericsson. It offers a standard way for handsets to share files with one another and with other personal devices and you can “pair” up your devices to swap data. Bluetooth use is growing every year. It uses a short hop, low power radio technology for Personal Area Networking, where multiple devices can swap files with one another. Bluetooth uses 79 single 1 MHz spectrum slices in the 2.4 GHz range, suitable because the signal fades rapidly and has very low penetration, so won’t interfere with other signals. It uses a number of traditional modulation techniques, and switching between these it can support around 1 Mbps or 3 Mbps in an enhanced data mode. The Bluetooth name came from the Norse King Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson who ruled Denmark and Norway about a thousand years ago. Bluetooth is now managed by a 14,000 company strong Special Interest Group of interested companies who oversee development.
WiLan strikes again as trolls lead US litigation
11 December, 2012
Canadian IPR licensing firm targets RIM over use of Bluetooth in BlackBerry products, having sued Apple and HTC last week
Apple iWallet may favor Bluetooth over NFC
24 May, 2012
Analyst believes Apple is making major commitment to Bluetooth Low Energy and cloud payments, weakening NFC
Nokia aims for indoor navigation standards
1 December, 2011
Harnesses new location extension of Bluetooth to bring benefits of location awareness inside
Broadcom wireless gains hides broadband slide
26 October, 2011
Broadcom may be doing better in cellular markets, but its traditional business is economy constrained
Bluetooth targets health monitoring and TV
23 June, 2011
Aims to fend off rival standards in new markets, as Apple and Nordic join the SIG's board
Qualcomm's Peanut targets body area networks
23 September, 2010
Ultra-low power radio technology could go step further than low power Bluetooth
Bluetooth formally adopts low power standard
6 July, 2010
Starts certification for Version 4.0, targeting sensors and low power handsets
Bluetooth to decide on 60GHz standard this month
20 April, 2010
Could strengthen bid for unified platform, especially if SIG chooses WiGig
Wi-Lan on patent warpath again, over Bluetooth
12 April, 2010
Sues 18 PC and handset vendors over IPR formerly held by Metricom
Low energy Bluetooth standard ratified, handsets w
21 December, 2009
The latest branch of the Bluetooth standard has been released, this one for very low power applications such as sensor networks. The pl
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