IP: *** Bluetooth demo flops at tech show: InfoBeat News - Morning Coffee Edition - 3/26/2001

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 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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