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Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard, mouse gets FCC approval | |
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| Time: 11:03 EST/16:03 GMT | News Source: InfoWorld | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft has moved closer to commercialization of a wireless keyboard and mouse set that relies on Bluetooth wireless networking technology. The Redmond, Wash., software maker, which has been slow off the mark in adding support for Bluetooth to its Windows operating systems, received approval for the product from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) earlier this month, according to FCC documents. The keyboard and mouse will come in a kit that also contains a Bluetooth transceiver that can be connected to a personal computer using the USB (universal serial bus) connector. Because the keyboard and mouse won't be able to draw power from the PC, they each require two batteries to operate. | ||
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| #1 By 20 (24.243.41.64) at 8/16/2002 11:45:06 AM |
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But, I thought all the naysayers and Chicken Littles were saying that MS had poo-pooed Bluetooth and use their horrendous monopoly power to squash it?
Idiots. |
| #2 By 3339 (65.198.47.10) at 8/16/2002 5:31:22 PM |
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zooker, you do have a crappy nuker.
Bluetooth and cordless phones are transmitting encoded signals overs the waves they emit so other devices emitting the same waves can interfere. Your nuke's ability to cook isn't affected by other waves of the same frequency because the integrity of those waves doesn't matter, they don't have to preserve a signal message... all they have to do is be emitted, strike against, and radiate through the cells that they collide against within your m-wave to heat up your hot pocket or whatever. Punchinello, my phones don't interfere with each other all that much--some crackle if they are right on top of each other, maybe, but they actually have good compatibility (also different manufacturers). Also, Bluetooth does frequency hopping--better than phones if they do at all--so that multiple signals can coexist peacefully. This post was edited by sodajerk on Friday, August 16, 2002 at 19:29. |
| #3 By 3339 (65.198.47.10) at 8/16/2002 5:31:25 PM |
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crappy double posts! This post was edited by sodajerk on Friday, August 16, 2002 at 17:31. |
| #4 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at 8/17/2002 2:42:28 AM |
| Will the Bluetooth keyboard and mouse be colored blue? :) |
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