December 11, 2003
EE Times: PC, consumer engineers play different tunes on road to wireless music.
PC and consumer engineers are taking separate paths to audio over Bluetooth, raising the possibility of incompatible wireless MP3 players, headsets and speakers. Word of the split comes as Bluetooth is gaining traction in its core market of cellular handsets and marshalling its forces for a next-generation spec that could deliver megabit data rates and multimedia capabilities.
EE Times: VoIP battles heats up with carrier, cable announcements.
In a year-end claim-staking stampede, carriers from the cable TV, local phone exchange and long-distance worlds are scrambling to make announcements pledging customer support for Voice Over Internet Protocol service in 2004.
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