Pressure from industry leaders and campaigners defeated plans for perhaps the most controversial proposal - key escrow - but according to a legal audit of the draft Bill, lobbyists may have relaxed a bit too soon.
Leaders in the Bluetooth technology debate will meet in Monte Carlo this week at the Bluetooth Congress to discuss the development of the short distance radio standard. Ericsson, Intel, IBM and Sony are among the companies offering product updates...
The research also predicts 40,000 US cellular handsets will contain Bluetooth technology, with uptake greater in European markets. Momentum behind the much-hyped technology continues to grow, aided by the 2,000 plus developing companies now...
However, his assertion that the internet was "the largest legal creation of wealth in the history of the planet" has now been modified by Doerr himself to read "the largest legal creation (and evaporation) of wealth in the history of the planet".
Also in search of new customers is Socket Communications (www.socketcom.com), which will announce the launch of its new Bluetooth Connection Kit. Industry leaders will be debating the future of extensible mark-up languages at XML One in Amsterdam.
This is a problem that is going to accelerate with the arrival of Bluetooth and more strains of wireless LAN, as well as RFID tags and plastic cards and other passive devices that will also contain transmitters in future.