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Article: Bluetooth and Jini.
- Article from:
- Strategic Finance
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
- Author:
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* No, they aren't a new Saturday morning cartoon duo. Bluetooth and Jini(tm) are new ways to network computers--at home and everywhere else. And the future they offer is cordless and more efficient.
The products in this month's Product Watch are representative of a new generation of computers--typically smaller and more mobile than the towers and bulky monitors that own so much of our desktop space today. A name that's beginning to stick for some of these devices is "digital appliance." And the networks such as Bluetooth and Jini that will serve them will, in some ways, be even more radical than the devices themselves.
Why the Change?
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