... cost. The PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) will become an integral product featuring Bluetooth, and will act as the cornerstone of connectivity to PCs, consumer electronics, point-of-sale transaction terminals, cell phones, pagers, Internet proxies and other electronic devices. Even current PDAs such as the Palm Pilot and Pocket PC will be Bluetooth upgradeable. Standardization is essential in the evolution of this ... ...

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... rush out to buy Centrino laptops may find there's nowhere in town they can get online, unless you live in a very central part of the country. The companies that deliver cell-phone service are best equipped to build nation-wide Wi-Fi networks, but they're taking a wait-and-see approach. Wi-Fi requires completely different hardware than cellular ... phones, with base stations in many more locations due to their shorter range. FCC regulations have made it tough to develop a wide-area base station, and the rules also prevent wireless ... ...

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... more constrained when it comes down to speed, bluetooth tends to be used with devices that do not require a lot of data to be transferred. Some of these devices include cell phones, PDA's, and printers. While wireless networking is more used with networks or devices which need to send large amounts of data in the quickest time possible. Some of the places ... ...

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