The Bluetooth standards body today added support for two specific data types in the Bluetooth 4.0 specification: the Health Thermometer Profile and the Heart Rate Profile. Both could help fuel a rise in the number of health-monitoring gadgets, expected to be a $9.3 billion industry by 2014. Read more »
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has created a standard that will allow users to switch between the power-sipping, low-bandwidth Bluetooth radio signal and a power-sucking, high-bandwidth Wi-Fi signal. Devices using the specification will be able to quickly alternate between whatever signal works best for the task […] Read more »
