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Bluetooth has wind at its back

(Translated)

Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) reprots record sale of Bluetooth products in Q3. For the first time, the sale of Bluetooth products has passed 1 mio units per week

The technology can now be found in anything from mobile phones and headsets to pda's, mp3 players, pc's and cars.

"Bluetooth has passed an important milestone in its development. A stabile specification and millions of installed units, proves that the technology is a success" Michale Wall, a market analyst from Frost & Sullivan, coments.

Compared to wireless technologies like WLAN, the bandwith and reach is limited, but the producers have focussed on doing whatever possible to make it easy to install Bluetooth networks.

Bluetooth SIG informs that car producers Accura, Audi, DaimlerChrysler, Ford and Lexus all ahev announced plans to build in Bluetooth technology in their cars. GM and BMW already have Bluetooth equipped cars on the market.

Partners in Bluetooth SIG are Agere, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and Toshiba.

http://www.jp.dk/itogc/ncom:aid=2093656/

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