Five Short-Range Wireless Standards Seen Combining

Tech: Yahoo! News — Five Short-Range Wire­less Stan­dards Seen Com­bin­ing: “Five short-range wire­less con­nec­tion tech­nolo­gies are fight­ing for the indus­try lime­light, but sec­tor spe­cial­ists said on Fri­day that com­pa­nies would even­tu­ally com­bine the five to make life eas­ier. Auto­matic wire­less con­nec­tions between elec­tronic devices are the Holy Grail of the com­puter and con­sumer elec­tron­ics indus­try.
Com­pa­nies hope con­sumers will buy new devices once they are able to lis­ten to their music col­lec­tions any­where in the house or on the road, see DVDs and photo albums on any screen, or pro­gram their hard disk recorders from a Web site. This brave new world, in which a car’s lights, speak­ers and cell phone are all con­nected to the dash­board with wire­less chips, may be here in a few years, or in some cases sooner.
’We haven’t even scratched the sur­face,’ Paul Marino, man­ager of con­nec­tiv­ity at Philips semi­con­duc­tors unit, told Reuters at a Wire­less Con­nec­tiv­ity indus­try show. ” Bye-bye Bluetooth?

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