Wireless

Think of Bluetooth as providing connectivity for the last 10 feet. Bluetooth excels as a handy cable replacement technology, helping to eliminate the need for cumbersome wires that you might find on headsets, remote controls, PDAs, and other smal...

It effectively turns a Sony Ericsson mobile phone into a full color, programmable remote for OS X. You can launch apps, control presentations, and even use it as a general purpose mouse. It works with many Sony Ericsson phones, including the T39m...

It has proven to be surprisingly popular in many parts of the world (particularly Japan, the Philippines, and much of Europe), but for one reason or another has been less than enthusiastically received in the U.S. Part of the barrier to entry for...

The instant gratification of being able to view your photos immediately is many times offset by two small details: you need to have your camera with you and it has to be charged. My camera is much too large and fragile to carry with me all of the...

As you might expect, getting Bluetooth to work under Linux takes a little more work than other operating systems. First, it should be noted that there are actually three distinct Bluetooth protocol stacks for Linux: Affix, OpenBT, and BlueZ, each...

Being able to use your cell phone as a modem from all those places you can't pull in a Wi-Fi signal would be pretty cool, wouldn't it? Bluetooth supports a number of "profiles," which define the way that Bluetooth devices can communicate wi...

Maybe someone messaged you a photo from their family barbecue that you want to copy over to your laptop. Or maybe you just want to install some applications on your shiny new phone. The heart of file transfer over Bluetooth is called the Object...

There are actually a couple of applications out there that use a WAP-like serial interface to Ericsson's T-series phones (including the T68i and the T39m) to configure them for use as XMMS remote controls. The first of the two is a standal...