The Consumer Electronics Show recently held in Las Vegas provided manufacturers with the opportunity to showcase their Bluetooth wares. Surprisingly, or perhaps unsurprisingly, only 3Com and HP were able to field working demonstrations of the...
Bluetooth may be best known as a wireless technology for connecting mobile phones and PDAs to a PC, but it could become even more useful as a way of controlling home electronics and appliances from any Internet-connected device, according to...
The problems start to come in with more sophisticated devices such as laptops, printers and even digital cameras. Introduced by the mobile phone industry, where it has already established a significant presence, Bluetooth allows people to create...
It is obvious in today’s market there are three islands jostling for prime position in the home, each depending on one core central device: the trusted PC (where PC and PC peripherals communicate), the TV (via advanced set-top boxes communicating...
The fact that NFC should always be very intuitive makes it ideal for transferring data such as digital images between, for example, cameras and TV sets, at speeds of up to 424Kbps. When Bluetooth started to be incorporated in devices in volume...
A smarter form of radio frequency ID chips called Near Field Communications (NFC) will take off but that will be as much because of the mobile phone industry as because of their use in consumer electronics.