Tag archive: SIG

The Bluetooth SIG has announced plans for a new Bluetooth High Speed standard, which will combine Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless networking as an interim measure while the industry waits for the widespread deployment of ultra-wideband (UWB) technology. Under Bluetooth High Speed, Bluetooth devices will be able to switch on an 802.11-based Wi-Fi radio to speed up transfers of large files and other data items, but drop back to standard,… Read More

Back in late 2006, Finland's Nokia announced Wibree, a new short range wireless technology it had developed to enable short-range communication between electronic devices. A crucial difference between Wibree and existing Bluetooth technology? Wibree ran on as little as one tenth the power of Bluetooth. Today, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group and the Wibree Forum announced that the Wibree spec will become part of the Bluetooth… Read More

Many of the worlds largest electronics firms have agreed to use forthcoming WiMedia UWB (ultra-wideband) Bluetooth wireless technology to distribute high-quality video and other data between home electronics devices like televisions, camcorders, music systems, and computers. The announcement marks an agreement between the WiMedia Alliance and the Bluetooth SIG; backers include major industry players like Nokia, Microsoft, Ericsson, Intel,… Read More

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group yesterday announced enhanced profiles for in-car phone handling and mobile phones with streaming music. The new Phone Book Access Profile (PBAP) and enhanced Hands-Free Profile (HFP 1.5) are expected to be found on new products hitting the market later this year. With the PBAP, said the Bluetooth SIG, the information from the mobile's phone book will be made available in the hands-free car kit,… Read More

“Audio and video are the killer apps,” said Robin Heydon, a technical consultant for Bluetooth chip maker Cambridge Silicon Radio. Stereo audio headsets will be coming out very soon, he said, taking the concept of a Bluetooth headset a step further. On the other hand, a home automation working group has received confirmation, Cook said, signaling that the technology may soon seek to challenge Zigbee and other home automation… Read More

CEA also announced that the new Product Returns SIG will release a consumer survey exploring attitudes regarding product returns next week at CEA's Industry Forum, October 18-20, in San Francisco,Calif. The 2004 CEA Industry Forum, co-located with the fall meeting of the Home Theater Specialists of America (HTSA) and the Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) Symposium, is the consumerelectronics event for industry networking,… Read More

NVIDIA Corporation today announced that its top-to-bottom family of PCI Express graphics processing units (GPUs) are now being offered with the industry's leading PCI Express motherboards from AOpenInc., ASUSTeK, Gigabyte Technology, and MSI. Together with its partners, NVIDIA is helping to push the visual envelope and deliver seamless multimedia experiences with cinematic-quality graphics atits core. "We believe PCI Express bundles… Read More

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group today launched Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) Bluetooth, which permits speeds up to 2.1 Mbps

From NVIDIA's press release: NVIDIA Corporation today unveiled the industry's first top-to-bottom family of PCI Express graphics processing units (GPUs), all designed to take full advantage of the additional bandwidth and features that this new I/O interconnection standard delivers. By using an innovative PCI Express (PCX) high-speed interconnect (HSI), a complex piece of networking technology that performs seamless,… Read More

This new GPU family is all designed to take full advantage of the additional bandwidth and features that this new I/O interconnection standard delivers. By using an innovative PCI Express (PCX)high-speed interconnect (HSI), a complex piece of networking technology that performs seamless, bi-directional interconnect protocol conversion at incredible speed lines, NVIDIA can transform itscurrent award-winning GeForce FX series into a full-family of… Read More

Customers who purchase any of these new state-of-the-art mobile communications products can automatically take full advantage of Logitech's recently introduced wireless hub – which bridges their PC and Bluetooth mobile devices – and the Logitech Mobile Bluetooth Headset. Logitech offers the wireless hub as part of a Bluetooth product lineup that includes the Logitech® MX

The updated version of the core specification includes new features which the SIG claim result in a more reliable and robust user experience for consumers. This new version of the Bluetooth Core Specification was designed for developers by developers with a view toward a more positive user experience and the future wireless world. The current specification is included in over 1000 products as diverse as computer mice and mobile phones to… Read More

ATI has designed, developed and validated in tests with Intel, the industry's first visual processor using the brand-new PCI Express bus to accelerate the movement of information between the visual processor and the central processor. "PCI Express is the most significant transition the PC industry has undergone in the past decade. We already have working silicon that uses PCI Express natively," said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice… Read More

From the Bluetooth World Congress, being held this week in Amsterdam, the Bluetooth Special Interests Group (SIG) today announced that version1.2 of the Bluetooth Specification is in its final testing phases. The new version of the increasingly popular standard is backwards compatible with the existing v1.1 specification and includes manynew features which the SIG claims will improve reliability and performance. New features in version 1.2 of… Read More