Microsoft releases to manufacturers an update that would allow PCs running Windows XP to connect to peripherals, handhelds and cell phones without wires. Read the report at C|Net.
Windows XP to Get Bluetooth Support
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Everything bluetooth that I have seen has been expensive, more so then 802.11b. I don’t know if it will ever really catch on. For $200 less, I could just use a wire.
Everybody was waiting for this announcement. Now finally Bluetooth can take off – obviously if they can slash the Bluetooth chip price to the $5 nirvana.
Vendors have already created their own Bluetooth stacks and are selling hardware right now to create personal piconets via tiny USB modules (for example):
http://www.bluegear.com/b091h1.html
This unit runs on Windows 95/98/2000/XP.
Wow – an opinion from a salad picking mexin. It’s worth about as much as a <drumroll> a head of leatuce.