Wasn't Bluetooth supposed to change the world? After all the hoo-ha that erupted in the mid-'90s over the cable-banishing wireless technology, we readied ourselves for a deluge of new Bluetooth-enabled gadgets. Soon we'd be ordering our printer to spit out pages from a different room, connecting our laptops to the Internet via a cell phone, and, best of all, getting rid of those dust-bunny-loving cables. We checked our e-mail. We took cold showers. Nothing came. Until now.
Eight years later, with Wi-Fi technology poised to eclipse Bluetooth forever, Microsoft, the 800-pound gorilla, has put its full-court press behind a Bluetooth-enabled keyboard and mouse.
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