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COPYRIGHT 2004 Crain Communications, Inc.
Byline: ERIC JANSON
After years of what seemed like endless hype, Bluetooth wireless technology has become a mass-market consumer product technology, having shipped in more than 240 million units with price points of less than $3 per chip. It is the only wireless technology that enables interoperable wireless headsets for use with many different manufacturers' mobile phones and is driving the adoption of wireless telephony in automobiles. These applications and others like synchronization of personal information and access to the Internet with a laptop anywhere a user has cellular coverage, have pushed adoption of Bluetooth technology.
Bluetooth has reached an inflection point where usefulness, robustness and costs have combined to make the technology compelling....
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