2004: The year of Bluetooth
NOW THERE'S EVIDENCE, NOT JUST PROMISES
By Jon Fortt
Mercury News
Mike McCamon is clearly frustrated, but he's doing well at holding it together. He is Mr. Bluetooth.
That's Bluetooth, the wireless technology. You might have heard of it -- the cable replacement miracle that was supposed to clear the clutter around your personal computer, banish the annoying wire from your cell phone headset and ``cure the common cold,'' as McCamon wryly puts it.
McCamon is executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, an outfit based in Kansas whose mission is to perfect and promote the technical standard. He is wise not to make promises. Like most everything else technology-related, Bluetooth got over-hyped during the late '90s -- Bluetooth boosters from companies long bankrupt kept promising it would be everywhere ``next year.''
``Next year'' finally will arrive in the United States in 2004 based on evidence at the Bluetooth Americas event in San Jose last week and talk from companies that manufacture wireless chips, bolstered by wireless keyboards, mice and printers in the personal computer world. In Europe, Bluetooth-enabled cell phones are emerging as digital hubs in place of the PC"
But McCamon won't make the leap to say Bluetooth has arrived. So many boosters have been wrong before.
``I don't like hyping stuff,'' McCamon says. ``I'm a Midwest kind of guy.''
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2004: The year of Bluetooth
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