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To: MikeyT who wrote (12924)	1/23/2000 9:55:00 PM
From: Jeff Call	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21876

Saw this article, can any one confirm that they saw it in Forbes? ----- Lucent Mulls a Tracking Stock for Optical Business, Forbes Says Murray Hill, New Jersey, Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Lucent Technologies Inc., the world's No. 1 phone-equipment maker, is considering a tracking stock for its fiber-optic business, Forbes magazine said, without citing its sources. While sales of Lucent's most advanced optical gear doubled in its fiscal first quarter, the company expects total sales in the fiscal year to rise 17 percent. Fiber optics is spreading from its place in long-haul telecommunications to local networks and, in the future, to desktop computers and homes, Fortune said. Lucent's profit in its fiscal first quarter ended Dec. 31 fell 23 percent as the Murray Hill, New Jersey-based company sold less software than it expected and failed to get new fiber-optic equipment out fast enough.

To: MikeyT who wrote (12924)	1/24/2000 6:00:00 PM
From: Georgeb	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21876

Within LU Microelectronics, the new Bluetooth device is called Excalibur. It is a client side device that integrates the RF with a baseband processor to provide a PCM interface to the host. As you said, the killer app is PDAs, laptops, and cellphone interfaces within the wireless world. The PC world can use the same device for interconnecting desktops to printers, serial interfaces, and practically any other peripheral device that has a Bluetooth module. As such, module to module is probably the most useful way to use it. The protocol is pretty flexible, and provides reconfiguring of master/slave functionality on the fly. I'm not sure how your envisioning location identification with Bluetooth, since I believe that Bluetooth is for interconnecting devices. There are a number of methods in use (and proposed for location identification, among them using LOran or GPS, but those are independent of the Bluetooth standards. Lucent claims the only fully complaint device on the market (although there are others).