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Article: 2008 Marks Ten Years of Bluetooth Wireless Technology.
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- PR Newswire
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- January 7, 2008
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Global Wireless Standard and Trade Organization Mark 10 Years, 10,000 Members & Nearly 2 Billion Devices
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumer Electronics Show -- Bluetooth(R) technology, the global standard for short range wireless communications, turns 10-years-old this week. And it's marking its birthday appropriately at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
While the idea of Bluetooth technology was born over a decade ago, the first products didn't appear commercially until the year 2000. In that short time -- a span of eight years -- 1.5 billion Bluetooth enabled devices have been shipped, and the organization behind the technology, the ...