A wireless local area network platform is becoming a de facto standard in businesses, and its popularity could come at the expense of Bluetooth. IEEE 802.11b, as it is designated by the Institute of ...

The Bluetooth SIG -- the chaperone of Bluetooth Standards -- has come up with a series of icons that could potentially allay some of the confusion over what it takes for two or more devices with ...

Bluetooth is about to get some significant new mesh networking capabilities — and the best bit is, you may not need new hardware to benefit from them. Mesh networking will make it simpler to connect ...

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, is empowering the next wave of control-by-phone innovation with new ...

BLE Mesh expands Bluetooth into a wide range of new applications, but it involves design tradeoffs in both hardware and software. Bluetooth is a ubiquitous communications protocol with countless ...

This is the first part of a paper describing the construction of a complete radio transciever for the 2.4GHz ISM band, demonstrating a high level of integration along with reduced component count and ...

Computer scientists Karen Scarfone of the Computer Security Division of the Information Technology Laboratory at the NIST has collaborated with John Padgette, an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton to ...

Taiwan chip and device maker Via plans to add Bluetooth networking capabilities to its new products, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. The company licensed Bluetooth designs on Tuesday from ...

If you have a Mac that doesn’t feature Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR connectivity and you want it, MacMice has a solution: the $29.99 Danger Dongle, a USB stick that provides Bluetooth networking capability for ...

Bluetooth is a personal area networking (PAN) technology that enables electronic devices to communicate with each other over short distances. It’s become a way for the Mac to communicate with devices ...