The Bluetooth Special Interest Group — the not-for-profit collective responsible for the development of new standards for the wireless technology — has just officially adopted version 4.2 of the ...

Bluetooth 4.0, which can be found inside the iPhone 4S and the latest MacBook Air and Mac Mini, is being rebranded by the group that controls the technology. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group ...

Hallmark Low Energy Feature Opens Doors to New Applications in Health Care, Fitness, Security and Home Entertainment Kirkland, WA, July 6, 2010 - The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) today ...

The recently announced iPhone 4S comes with Bluetooth 4.0, which is a first for mobile phones. What exactly does Bluetooth 4.0 mean, and what advantages does that give the iPhone? CNET answers these ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

The fight is on for wireless device-to-device networking supremacy between a refreshed incumbent, Bluetooth 4.0, and a newcomer, Wi-Fi Direct. Both specifications are promising to make it easier for ...

Many users have always wondered what are the differences between Bluetooth 3.1 and 4.0, the most used versions at the moment. Well, besides the obvious 0.9, these two different standards have certain ...

The Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ were the first smartphones to support Bluetooth 5.0, which, up to this point, hasn’t meant a whole lot. Why? Because very few other consumer electronics support it — but ...