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Bluetooth
- Definition
- Bluetooth provides a wireless-way to connect and exchange information between devices such as mobile phones, laptops, personal computers, printers, digital cameras, and video game consoles over a secure, globally unlicensed short-range radio frequency. Bluetooth is a standard and communications protocol primarily designed for low power consumption, with a short range (1 meter to100 meters) founded in 1998 by Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia and Toshiba. (Source: Wikipedia)
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- Bluetooth
- Note
- The name Bluetooth comes from the nickname of a Scandinavian King, King Harald Blatan (Bluetooth), who in the 10th century, began to unite and Christianize the Scandinavian countries.
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