Bluetooth's slow dawn

Article Abstract:

Fewer Bluetooth-enabled products will be available in holiday season 2000 than many industry observers had expected. Interoperability is cited as the main reason. Bluetooth, the short-range cable replacementfor linking portable consumer electronic products, is evolving into marketable realities much more slowly than anticipated. So far, few products have demonstrated an ability to contact other devices and communicate.

Forecasts and trends, Consumer electronics industry, Market trend/market analysis, Bluetooth technology, Bluetooth (Wireless communications)

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Wi-Fi takes new turn with "Wireless-G": IEEE ratifies the 802.11g standard, offering three to five times the speed of 802.11b

Article Abstract:

The IEEE Standards Board has ratified IEEE 80211.g, an amendment to the local-area networking (LAN) standard, referred to as Wi-Fi. The new 802.11g standard is backward compatible with 802.11b, and virtually all access points are expected to accommodate 802.11a.

COMMUNICATION, Communications, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Wireless network, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Communications industry, Wireless communication systems, Mobile communication systems, Wireless local area networks (Computer networks), Wireless LAN/WAN system

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The mobile phone meets the Internet

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Cellular telephones have become ubiquitous in a few short years, and now they are about to be enhanced for transmitting data, video and multimedia at relatively high speeds. These third-generation cellular devices build on first-generation analog and second-generation digital technologies. The International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) International Mobile Telecommunications for the year 2000 (IMT-2000) initiative calls for voice quality comparable to that of the public switched telephone network (PSTN), a data rate of 144 Kbps from moving motor vehicles, a data rate of 384 Kbps for pedestrians, phased-in support for 2,048 Mbps in offices, support for packet-switched and circuit-switched data services, an adaptive radio interface supporting asymmetric Internet communications, efficient use of spectrum, support for various mobile equipment, and flexible introduction of new services and technologies. All 10 of the terrestrial radio transmission technologies submitted to the ITU use code-division multiple access as the air interface, except Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) and Universal Wireless Communications 136 (UWC-136), which use time-division multiple access.

Radiotelephone communications, Cellular and Other Wireless Telecommunications, Mobile Radio Services, World, Mobile Radio Systems, Cellular telephone services industry, Cellular technology, Cellular telephone services, Computer-telephone integration, Computer telephony, Technology development, Cover Story, Telecommunications equipment, Wireless communications services, Cellular telephone equipment industry, Cellular transmission equipment, International Telecommunication Union, Integrated voice/data

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