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Bluetooth: SIG Announces Specification - Finally
News The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced it will finally ship version 0.9 of the Bluetooth Specification on April 29. This is causing some SIG members to wonder whether we'll actually get full test routines to go with version 1.0 or...
[April 15, 1999, 16:47]
Microsoft Still Ponders Bluetooth SIG. Should We Care?
News Microsoft said Friday it was unhappy to "make an announcement concerning its membership or non-membership in the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) at this stage", other members remain apathetic. A spokeswoman for Microsoft said: "At this time...
[October 15, 1999, 15:53]
Microsoft Joins Bluetooth SIG
News Following much speculation , Microsoft has joined the Promoter Group of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), formed Wednesday. The Bluetooth Promoter Group is a consortium of companies charged with driving the development of the wireless...
[December 1, 1999, 12:55]
Bluetooth: Still A Few Bumps In The Road
News In a March 2002 report, Gartner urged the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) to address security matters, expressing concern that during initial device authentication, the exchanging of secret keys could be compromised on a side-band channel.
[June 23, 2002, 21:57]
Bluetooth Picks WiMedia UWB For High Speed
White Papers The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced that the flavor of ultrawideband wireless called MultiBand Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MB-OFDM), backed by the WiMedia Alliance industry group, will be integrated into Bluetooth.
[June 30, 2006, 0:00]
Bluetooth Needs Long PINS For Security
Talkback This article is damage control spin from the Bluetooth SIG. Here's my workaround, Bluetooth SIG: do not use Bluetooth for anything sensitive. The SIG is also at pains to assure users that the hack is only an academic paper at present.
[July 4, 2005, 5:44]
Bluetooth Group Steps Up Mobile Efforts
News The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the international consortium in charge of certification and promotion of Bluetooth wireless technology, has begun a strategic repositioning, the group said on Tuesday.
[February 19, 2003, 9:22]
Windows CE .Net Gets Bluetooth Certification
News Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its next-generation mobile operating system has passed a crucial test for Bluetooth compatibility, achieving qualification by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG).
[October 30, 2001, 16:19]
IrDA Warns Bluetooth
News The Infra Red Data Association (IrDA) has warned the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) not to make the same mistakes it made when establishing itself as a connectivity technology. Watson admitted that the relationship with the SIG is "getting...
[June 14, 1999, 14:45]
Countdown Begins For Bluetooth
News Mike McCamon, executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), says he will urge SIG members at this week's Bluetooth Developers Conference in San Jose, California, to adopt a "five-minutes-out-of-the-box" mentality.
[December 10, 2002, 11:52]
Bluetooth: Symbian To Squash Windows CE?
News My feeling," says Till, "is there is a definite momentum towards Bluetooth at the top level, but whether or not the company will join the SIG and want to take a co-development is still open to question.
[April 16, 1999, 12:08]
Toshiba To Launch Bluetooth Card
News Toshiba one of the founding members of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) charged with developing the technology, is preparing to launch its first Bluetooth product in North America. The introduction of the first PC Card Bluetooth radios is...
[September 14, 2000, 9:23]
Bluetooth Shatters Milestone As New Standard Debuts
News Meanwhile, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the industry body which looks after the technology, has officially adopted a new standard that adds user-friendly features and improves connection quality.
[November 7, 2003, 11:20]
Bluetooth Explosion May Hinder Development
News The widespread industry support for the technology -- there are more than 1300 companies in the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) -- may lead to interoperability problems threatening the standard, says the report.
[January 13, 2000, 14:00]
Comdex '99: Wireless Imaging Tools A Way Off
News Ericsson and Nokia are principle members of the Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group) and have ample peripherals lining up for launch during the first half of next year. Of course it would be nice to have them involved," says Warren Allen, senior...
[November 16, 1999, 14:43]
Analysis: Teething Problems For Bluetooth?
News The companies who make up the SIG hope Bluetooth can do something similar for them by allowing everything from mobile phones to PCs to handheld computers to refrigerators to talk to each other. Sales will be driven by laptops and handsets, but IDC...
[June 14, 2000, 16:24]
Bluetooth: Specification 0.9 Gets The All Clear
News The profiles have been the main sticking point in the release of version 0.9 and the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is now expecting version 1.0 to be put back to late August, when the profiles are a little more concrete.
[May 19, 1999, 13:52]
Ultrawideband Rides To Bluetooth's Rescue
News The motivation behind the move came from several driving factors, said Michael Foley, executive director of the Bluetooth SIG. Key members of the Bluetooth SIG are also key players in the development of the Ultrawideband specification, including...
[May 4, 2005, 9:15]
Bluetooth Needs Long PINS For Security
News The Bluetooth SIG’s advice echoes that of Wool and Shaked -- don’t re-pair in a public place, where someone else might eavesdrop, and use a longer PIN. The attack also relies on a degree of user gullibility, so understanding the Bluetooth pairing...
[June 27, 2005, 17:55]
Bluetooth Wireless Technology: Wireless Connections Made Easy
White Papers In early 1998 they formed the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) and now thousands of companies have signed as adopters of the technology. The open Bluetooth wireless technology is intended to relieve cumbersome cables and make adhoc networking...
[June 19, 2004, 0:00]
