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Bluetooth Resources

In spite of its rather tumultuous beginnings, Bluetooth has emerged as a significant technology for short range connectivity. Now that the Holy Grail of a true System in Package (SIP) Bluetooth module is available, product designers no longer need to have RF expertise on-hand to successfully integrate Bluetooth into headsets, printers, PDAs, keyboards, mice, security systems, and a plethora of other applications. Way back in the late 1990s, when Bluetooth fist arrived in concept, a target price of $3 was proposed as the level at which adoption would be ubiquitous. We are finally there and indeed, Bluetooth technology is popping up all over the map. Even kids' toys are incorporating Bluetooth ICs. Here are some Bluetooth resources to assist you in your own endeavors.

Bluetooth Product Manufacturers & Services

Vendor pages list only those companies that actually manufacture products or provide services indicated by the page title. Doing so avoids clutter and maximizes a visitor's likelihood of success in achieving his goal. - Click here to submit your company's information for a listing -

A Mobile-Care System Integrated with Bluetooth Blood Pressure and Pulse Monitor,
and Cellular Phone

Article by Ren-Guey Lee, Chun-Chieh Hsiao, Chun-Chung Chen and Ming-Shiu Liu.

Bluetooth

The Official Bluetooth website - The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is a trade association comprised of leaders in the telecommunications, computing, automotive, industrial automation and network industries that is driving the development of Bluetooth wireless technology, a low cost short-range wireless specification for connecting mobile devices and bringing them to market.

Bluetooth a Mile Away

Article - With a simple modification to a USB Bluetooth adapter, you can extend your wireless range to record-setting distances, How2.0 from Popular Science.

Bluetooth Designer

Web site dedicated purely to the designers of Bluetooth wireless technology products.

Bluetooth Developer Corner
510-656-1445 / Newark, CA

Bluetooth Developer Corner of the D&R Web site. Here you will find details/links to IP/SoC-related Bluetooth activity.

Bluetooth Qualification Program Website

If you want to know why, when and how to take a product through Bluetooth product qualification; if you want to know where to find documents, who writes them, and what's qualified - then you are at the right place!

Bluetooth Resource Center

Bluetooth Tutorial - Specifications, from palowireless.

Bluetooth Weblog

Covering the Bluetooth industry.

BlueZ

The overall goal of this project is to make an implementation of the Bluetooth™ wireless standards specifications for Linux.

Engadget

Article - Switched On: The Blossoming of Bluetooth, by Peter Rojas.

Evaluation of Bluetooth as a Replacement for Cables in Intensive Care and Surgery

By Mats K. E. B. Wallin, MD MSc, and Samson Wajntraub, MSc.

GNOME Bluetooth Subsystem

In development as a prototype by Edd Dumbill, with the intention of being submitted to the GNOME desktop project. The software is free, licensed under the GPL.

GSM World
+44 (0)20 7759 2300 / UK

Article - What is Bluetooth?

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

Compatibility matrix for Bluetooth wireless technology.

How Bluetooth Works

Article from HowStuffWorks, Inc., by Curt Franklin.

mPhone Ltd
+44 (0)870 7500 770 / UK

Bluetooth mobile phones, Bluetooth accessories.

Socket Communications

Offers complete Bluetooth solutions which cordlessly connect your Windows handheld, notebook or PC to other Bluetooth enhanced devices.

Syncing the Treo 650 with Bluetooth

Article from the Linux Journal, by Dovid Kopel.