Motorola Expands Lineup of Bluetooth Offerings | | Patient information can be transferred wirelessly to a stationary
diagnostic machine, eliminating manual input errors and
increasing accuracy.
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Bluetooth wireless technology with applications for equipment
manufacturers in the medical, digital printing and imaging, and
industrial automation fields will be unveiled this week by Motorola Computer Group, a
subsidiary of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT).
The new platform, Motorola said, will let equipment manufacturers add wireless
communications to a wide variety of stationary equipment -- including magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) machines and other diagnostic hardware -- providing physicians with instant
access to patients' test and treatment information.
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Customers Test New Wireless In-Store Payment Technology | | As well as speeding up the transaction times, the service also allows mobile phone users
to be informed of any special offers that stores have while the customer is visiting. |
Ericsson is working with Eurocard, the MasterCard affiliate in Europe, to
test wireless payments using Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones in selected Swedish stores.
The goal, according to Ericsson, is to shorten transaction times by as much as 50
percent, improving service for store customers.
This is not the first time Bluetooth has been tested in a retail environment, as Ericsson
started tests with an ICA Ahold store near Stockholm, Sweden, late last year on an
in-store project involving the retailer's store card.
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Bluetooth App Slams Door on Hotel Room Keys Hotel guests may no longer need to fumble in their pockets for room keys, thanks to a
Bluetooth-based wireless application in development by TESA Entry Systems with marketing
and technical assistance from Registry Magic (Nasdaq: RMAG). The companies recently
demonstrated the new electronic locking system at the Internet World Wireless Show in New
York City.
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Bluetooth Meets Broadband with New Mobile Platform Kipling Holding AB and Axis Communications plan to demonstrate GSM (global system for
mobile communications) technology combined with Bluetooth capabilities at the CeBit trade
show in Hannover, Germany.
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Motorola To Manufacture Bluetooth Headsets Under the terms of a new original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement,
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) will produce its own
version of GN Netcom Group's
second-generation Bluetooth wireless headset.
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Single-Chip Bluetooth System Promises Lower Cost Connections Fabless semiconductor company Xemics has inked a licensing deal with NewLogic
Technologies that gives Xemics access to NewLogic's Boost Core and Boost Software IP
(intellectual property) products.
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Bluetooth-Enabled Medical Help on the Way An agreement to develop medical device applications and products based on
wireless Bluetooth technology has been announced by
QRS Diagnostic, LLC and
Advanced Medical Electronics Corporation.
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Ericsson Launches Bluetooth 'BLIP' Technology Ericsson (Nasdaq: ERICY) announced that its business innovation
division has launched a new standalone local mobile communications product
called "BLIP" (Bluetooth Local Infotainment Point).
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Swedish Firm Debuts Bluetooth-Based P2P Networking New software based on wireless Bluetooth technology and designed to create ad hoc
networks between handheld device users has been announced by Uppsala, Sweden-based
Pocit Labs. The company said its BlueTalk product is
the world's first Bluetooth-based, peer-to-peer (P2P) network client for mobile phones
and PDAs (personal digital assistants).
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New Technology Bridges Wireless Standards Gap In keeping with its goal of creating products that allow easy exchange of wireless data
between mobile devices, Commtag has released its "Unplug+Play" platform at this week's
3GSM World Congress in France.
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Centurion Unveils Antennas for Bluetooth Apps Manufacturers who are building products embedded with wireless Bluetooth technology may
be the prime beneficiaries of two new antennas from Centurion Wireless Technologies,
Inc. that have been designed specifically for Bluetooth applications.
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Bluetooth Broadband Connections Coming Soon A new agreement between Bluetooth developer
Classwave Wireless Inc. and Sweden-based
Axis Communications promises to let mobile users
equipped with Bluetooth devices send e-mail, surf the Internet and company intranets,
and conduct m-commerce transactions.
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For Hotel Check-In, Press 1 Now Imagine being able to check in and out of a hotel, make payments at in-house restaurants
and even open the door to your room with your mobile phone. Bluetooth wireless technology
is making it happen at several hotel chains.
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Pumatech, Xircom in Sync with Bluetooth In an attempt to address the changing needs of the mobile marketplace, Pumatech, Inc.
(Nasdaq: PUMA) announced an agreement to include its Intellisync synchronization
software with upcoming wireless products from Xircom (Nasdaq: XIRC).
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Bluetooth App To Detect Chemical Leaks Crossbow Technology, Inc. and Cyrano Sciences, Inc. have agreed to jointly develop a chemical leak detection system based on Bluetooth, a short-range wireless technology that lets users to connect to products such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) without the use of cables.
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