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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. Microsoft is joined by other new entries, 3Com, Lucent and Motorola.
[December 1, 1999, 12:55]
EA-SIG Mediation White Paper
White Papers The sole purpose of an IT enterprise is to support the execution of mission operations. Due to the great variety and criticality of the mission operations supported by the GIG, a single one-size-fits-all IT infrastructure is not appropriate.
[September 1, 2005, 3:00]
Novell Case Study: The Susquehanna International Group Of Companies
White Papers The Susquehanna International Group of companies (SIG) is a leading institutional sales, research and market making firm active in financial markets on five continents. SIG needed an operating system platform that would support rapid development...
[April 5, 2007, 1:00]
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]
Intel's PC Redesign Gets Thumbs Up
News The proposed technology, called 3GIO, will now be overseen by the PCI-SIG, the standards body that supervises Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), the long-dominant technique for plugging devices such as graphics cards and network cards into...
[August 6, 2001, 16:18]
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]
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]
A Year Ago: 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 13, 2000, 7:02]
Bluetooth Needs Long PINS For Security
Talkback This article is damage control spin from the Bluetooth SIG. The SIG is also at pains to assure users that the hack is only an academic paper at present. The SIG agrees with the researchers that a PC can crack a four digit code in a tenth of a...
[July 4, 2005, 5:44]
XML Key Management Specification (XKMS)
White Papers This document specifies protocols for distributing and registering public keys, suitable for use in conjunction with the proposed standard for XML Signature [XML-SIG] developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering...
[February 5, 2004, 1:12]
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]
PCI Standard Doubles Speed
News The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG), an industry consortium that includes representatives from Intel, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and other PC giants, said it has begun initial work to develop specifications for PCI-X 1066, the successor to...
[November 14, 2002, 7:46]
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 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]
PCI Express 2.0 Release Draws Near
News PCI Express 2.0 brings a bevy of changes, starting with a speed boost, according to the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) that governs the technology. The PCI-SIG has released a penultimate edition of the basic PCI Express 2.0 specification to...
[October 9, 2006, 9:15]
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. Although no one will say so on record, Microsoft's absence from the SIG could...
[November 16, 1999, 14:43]
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]
Approval Near On Intel PC-overhaul Plan
News A final vote by PCI-SIG is scheduled for Friday, after lawyers from member companies have had a week to review Arapahoe, but the group is expected to adopt the technology, PCI-SIG president Roger Tipley said in an interview.
[July 31, 2001, 14:26]
