Apple has issued a new Mac software update that lets Bluetooth-enabled Macintosh users employ the company's cool new, touch-sensitive wireless "Magic Mouse." The problem: You still can't buy the Magic Mouse by itself online or in Apple retail stores.
The Bluetooth 4.0 wireless specification could start to appear in devices such as headsets, smartphones and PCs by the fourth quarter, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group said on Wednesday.
Gartner is highlighting 10 mobile and wireless networking technologies – including new versions of Bluetooth and location-awareness -- it says will play a big role in business-to-employee and business-to-consumer interactions over the next couple of years.
Research In Motion (RIM) has been serving up new BlackBerry smartphones like French fries at a small-town fast-food joint in recent days, but its next new product doesn't come with a QWERTY keyboard or a blinking new-message LED. Today, RIM announced an updated version of its BlackBerry Smart Card Reader, a small thin-plastic security card reader that attaches to a lanyard and employs Bluetooth to grants users' proximity-based access to specific machines and systems.
Microsoft Tuesday patched 10 vulnerabilities, four marked "critical," in Windows and Internet Explorer (IE), and disabled a little-known third-party ActiveX control bundled with Logitech hardware, including keyboards and mice.
Almost lost in the hubbub over Thursday's iPhone firmware update and whether it would "brick" unlocked phones was the fact that Apple patched 10 vulnerabilities -- twice the number of fixes issued since the phone's June debut.
The next generation of Wi-Fi -- the superfast IEEE 802.11ac standard -- will integrate a range of wireless technologies on the same chip, as Marvell showed this week at Taiwan's giant annual Computex show. The semiconductor vendor announced a chip that will include 11ac with Bluetooth and near-field communications (NFC).
Last fall I told you about Privaris's PlusID, a neat little second-factor wireless biometric authentication device. Now the company has gone and released PlusID 75, and with support for Bluetooth, it's even neater.
Big week with 10 new fixes from Microsoft, including an interesting one to the company's Bluetooth stack, plus updates from OpenOffice.org, Apple for QuickTime, and the SNMPv3 protocol. Also, a couple of U.S. Congressmen have accused China of hacking into their governemnt computers, systems that could include information on Chinese dissidents.
Microsoft is working on releasing updates to a couple of its recent patches after they were found to be ineffective in some cases. First, the critical Bluetooth patch that was part of this month's Patch Tuesday release does not fix Windows XP. And, an update for a flaw in Microsoft's corporate patch distribution system did not make its way to the company's Windows Server Update Service. Both new updates should be out shortly. Also, beware of the pesky Storm Worm, which seems to be making a resurgence and i
Microsoft is working on releasing updates to a couple of its recent patches after they were found to be ineffective in some cases. First, the critical Bluetooth patch that was part of this month's Patch Tuesday release does not fix Windows XP. And, an update for a flaw in Microsoft's corporate patch distribution system did not make its way to the company's Windows Server Update Service. Both new updates should be out shortly. Also, beware of the pesky Storm Worm, which seems to be making a resurgence and i
After two Israeli researchers published a paper earlier this month explaining how security mechanisms in short-range wireless Bluetooth technology could be quickly undermined, members of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) are now urging users to take several precautions.
An iPhone developer working with beta code for iPhone 3.0 has stumbled upon the feature that lets a notebook PC link to an iPhone via USB or Bluetooth and then access the Internet.
By combining location data gathered using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi networks, German upstart Locoslab wants to improve the accuracy of indoor positioning, while at the same time implementing privacy features to assuage any fears users have.
Computer scientists Karen Scarfone of the Computer Security Division of the Information Technology Laboratory at the NIST has collaborated with John Padgette, an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton to write a new Special Publication entitled "Guide to Bluetooth Security," which summarizes the security issues and provides recommendations for protecting sensitive information carried via these wireless systems.
Last week, roving reporter John Cox took a trip into the experimental world of wireless sensors. This is an area that’s “pre-standard,” as they say, but when you start to consider the possibilities, the mind boggles. My personal favorite from among the early pioneers is a sensor coupled with a Bluetooth transmitter that is embedded in a concrete piling. It can tell you - by the way the ground reverberates when the piling is slammed into it - what kind of soil it is and just how much of a load the pil
Intel's next-generation WiMAX module, called Evans Peak, is on display at this week's Ceatec exhibition in Chiba, Japan. Due to hit the market as part of the Moorestown chip platform next year, Evans Peak will support more WiMax profiles than Intel's current chipset and add support for Bluetooth and GPS.
Bluesocket, which got its start in the wireless LAN market back when people were more enthused about Bluetooth than Wi-Fi, this week is announcing $10 million in additional venture funding.