Bluetooth shifts to the enterprise.(Industry Trend or Event)

Publication: eWeek

Publication Date: 11-JUN-01

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Although it was created by a phone maker and aimed at the cellular phone industry, the short-range wireless protocol called Bluetooth is now finding more of a home in devices for the enterprise.

While the shift from phone to peripheral device has vexed the big cell phone makers, which happen to be the largest backers of the technol ogy, it could bode well for enterprise users eyeing Bluetooth for commercial applications.

Evidence of the new path for the technology could be seen at the Bluetooth Congress here last week with news that ranged from...

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