Working with and Securing Bluetooth
Bluetooth emerged in the mid-1990s as a means to reduce the wires and cables that cluttered offices and other environments. In 1998, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) was created to develop the concept known as Bluetooth and to speed its adoption among the public. The founders of this group included technology giants such as IBM, Intel, Nokia, Toshiba, and Ericsson. After the standard was implemented, manufacturers rapidly started manufacturing all sorts of Bluetooth devices: Everything from mice to keyboards to printers showed up on the market, all Bluetooth enabled.
What makes this technology so attractive is its flexibility. Bluetooth has been used in numerous applications:
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