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IP: *** Bluetooth demo flops at tech show: InfoBeat News - Morning Coffee Edition - 3/26/2001
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:09:07 -0500
HANOVER, Germany (AP) - It was meant as a crowning moment for a long-promised technology designed to create a wireless link among different devices around the home or office. But instead, the "Bluetooth" demonstration at the world's biggest computer and electronics show turned into an embarrassing flop when 100 transmitters equipped with the short-range radio technology failed to transform a convention hall into a wireless data network for visitors with palmtop computers. The ill-fated bid to create the world's biggest Bluetooth network at this year's CeBIT trade fair underscored the many obstacles that still plague the two-year-old technology. Bluetooth is seriously hobbled by a lack of standardized code, which means that devices of different brands often can't communicate with each other - a big flaw for a technology hailed as the next step in computer interconnectivity. Full article at: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=406519811
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