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Technology Stocks : QUALCOMM-The Wireless Wonder in 1999 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GO*QCOM who wrote (41)	2/2/2000 7:54:00 AM
From: GO*QCOM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 343

A little about BLUETOOTH TECHNOLOGY >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Have you ever wished you could make every minute count? Wouldn't it be great if you could conveniently connect to your corporate network or send/receive email while waiting in the doctor's office, having your car serviced, or even traveling around the globe? Imagine having your docked mobile PC and PDA automatically synchronize your address list and calendar as soon as you walk through your office door. Imagine never again having to wrestle with cables to connect electronic devices. With Bluetooth technology, these feats, and many more, will soon become routine functions of mobile computing. In early 1998 a group of computer and telecommunications industry leaders, including Intel, IBM, Toshiba, Ericsson, and Nokia, together began developing a way for users to connect a wide range of mobile devices quickly and easily, without cables. To ensure that this technology is seamlessly implemented in a diverse range of devices, these leaders formed a special interest group, formally announced on May 20, 1998, to design a royalty-free, open specification technology, code named "Bluetooth." The SIG has quickly gained membership from companies such as 3COM/Palm, Axis Communication, Compaq, Dell, Lucent Technologies UK Limited, Motorola, Qualcomm, Xircom and is encouraging the involvement of all other companies interested in offering products taking advantage of a standardized, wireless means for connection. This technology achieves its goal by embedding tiny, inexpensive, short-range transceivers into the mobile devices that are available today, either directly or through an adapter device such as a PC Card. The radio operates on the globally-available unlicensed radio band, 2.45 GHz, and supports data speeds of up to 721 Kbps, as well as three voice channels. Bluetooth-enabled devices and adapters should be available as soon as the first half of 2000. Compliant radios will cost around $20 initially, eventually falling to around $5. The Bluetooth specification targets power consumption of the device from a "hold" mode consuming 30 micro amps to the active transmitting range of 8-30 milliamps (or less than 1/10th of a watt). Intel is continually striving to make mobile PCs more powerful, easier to use, and less expensive to maintain. Recent innovations include the mobile Pentium© III processor , which brings superb performance to state-of-the-art business-suite software, such as Microsoft Office 97* or Corel Word Perfect* Suite 8, and is ready for the demands of advanced operating systems such as Windows NT 5.0 and Windows* 98. These processors, which contain built-in support for the latest manageability technology, comply with Intel's Wired for Management (WfM) initiative, a hardware standard that allows any management application to communicate with any WfM-enabled mobile PC . These features enable businesses to benefit from off-hours maintenance, remote management, and software installation/upgrades-simplifying mobile system management and lowering the total cost of ownership. Bluetooth technology

To: GO*QCOM who wrote (41)	2/2/2000 8:00:00 AM
From: Labrador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 343

Have you thought about the possibilities with Snaptrack technology? Suppose a dog or cat strayed. One could have a collar with an enbedded snaptrack chip so one could determine the location of the stray. A stolen car? With an embedded chip, one could locate the car [puts lojack out of business]. One could be in a car with information particular to your trip with traffic accidents ahead, detours, etc. -- advertisements for stores/restaurants ahead. Limitless potential.