Hugh Sheridan, CEO of alltalking.com, a website dedicated to listing compatibility between Bluetooth products, said: "The development of 1.1 solves chip-to-chip concepts so now any chip will always connect to another Bluetooth chip on the same...
The WEP key has to be physically distributed to all client devices, including those used by visitors and those that have been stolen. Wireless LAN, whether based on the IEEE 802.11 or the Bluetooth standard, is a security nightmare.
The BBC declined to comment for this story but insiders say that despite perceived problems at the start of the year, PDA usage internally remains quite low. Devices based on Microsoft's PocketPC operating system are being trialled by end users...
Bluetooth has been surrounded by controversy since Ericsson created it with the aim of eliminating the wires that connect PCs, mobile phones, PDAs, computer peripherals and other devices. Silicon vendors RF Micro Devices and SiliconWave have...
Bluetooth and NFC could be jointly developed to allow NFC to serve as the identification process that allows two Bluetooth products to first connect. One potential benefit of the two technologies collaborating on standards is the ability to run...
These are wi-fi zones which allow visitors to a building to connect to the internet, on a completely separate network to the corporate wireless LAN, or WLAN. More than this, clients and visitors to organisations increasingly expect to be online...