� Bluetooth

30th May 2003

Bluetooth having a few teething problems?

Bluetooth: The truth gets worse

Oh dear, Bluetooth is getting a rough time. We have been having our own problems installing some Bluetooth enabled items, but nothing to some other reported problems. See the report from ZDNet.

Despite the promise it holds for being the first wireless cable replacement technology that's based on interoperable standards and that doesn't require line of site like InfraRed, Bluetooth is suffering its share of setbacks. After executives from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group left ZDNet executive editor David Berlind's home office scratching their chins over a series of failed interoperability demonstrations, the plot thickened. ZDNet readers wrote in with tales of their own failures, and of how Microsoft's Bluetooth-based keyboards and mice work only with Microsoft-branded Bluetooth transceivers. Is Bluetooth drowning, or will it eventually come up for air?

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