Word: bluetooth
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...Their start-up, Cambridge Silicon Radio, is now the global leader in chipsets used for Bluetooth, a technology that allows a whole range of devices to communicate wirelessly within a 10-m radius. The privately-held British company - which has raised $65 million in funding and does about 60% of its business in Japan - has already shipped more than a million Bluetooth single-chip devices, many of which are showing up in IBM, Sony, Compaq, Fujitsu and NEC laptops, Sony cell phones and Hewlett-Packard printers...
...Hodgson boasts that 50% of the products on the Bluetooth industry's global website have Cambridge Silicon Radio's chips inside...
...sure, market analysts have downgraded their forecasts for Bluetooth over the last year, due to the global economic slowdown as well as problems with device interoperability, interference from other radio technologies and fears over the security of the technology...
...instigators of the revolution are two standards that allow machines to talk to one another, known as Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11b or, more popularly, Wi-Fi. Both connect gadgets cheaply by accessing a swath of free radio spectrum over which to exchange digital data. Bluetooth, named for a Viking king (one of its original backers is Sweden's Ericsson) and supported by some 2,500 companies that constitute the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, is basically a substitute for all those cables you now use to link peripheral devices, such as PDAs and printers, to other computerized devices. Chips...
Indeed, after two years of embarrassing delays and technical glitches, Bluetooth consumer products are finally trickling out--mainly as cell phone, computer and PDA attachments made by companies such as 3Com, Palm, Compaq and Motorola. Simon Ellis, chairman of marketing for Bluetooth SIG, says 9 million Bluetooth chipsets will be shipped this year. But most Bluetooth-enabled consumer hardware will be out next year. Meanwhile, Bluetooth is earning its stripes in industrial applications. UPS, for instance, announced a $100 million plan last month to use Bluetooth in ring scanners for package sorters and Wi-Fi in its world-wide mobile...