Subject: (DePippo) Getting more "Blue" by the minute (fwd) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 094531 -0500 (CDT) From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org> To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org> -------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 08:00:07 EDT From: PDepippo@aol.com To: rbeavers@llion.org Subject: Getting more Blue by the minute Roy, FYI...... Peter Convergence Corporation Announces Mobile Wireless Technology Agreement With Intel(R) ATLANTA, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Convergence Corporation today announced it has licensed the Bluetooth driver software from Intel Corporation. Convergence will use the technology to build DeviceTalk(TM), a software suite that allows devices to communicate wirelessly with one another via the Bluetooth interface. DeviceTalk will allow PC platforms to wirelessly communicate with cell phones, PDAs and other embedded devices. In return for licensing its Bluetooth driver software, Intel has received a minority equity stake in Convergence. Details of the agreement were not disclosed. Convergence Corporation is a leader in wireless communications, specializing in software that allows devices to exchange information and wirelessly access the Internet. DeviceTalk software supports intelligent device communications Across the room and Around the world. DeviceTalk enables devices to discover each other using Bluetooth radios and leverage the wide area wireless or wireline connections of a nearby access point to reach the Internet. Bluetooth is a global initiative to publish and promote an open specification for low-cost wireless communications to replace cables. An industry group led by Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia and Toshiba is developing the Bluetooth specification. Convergence joined the Bluetooth Special Interest Group last year. Since then more than 675 companies worldwide have joined to support this innovative technology. Bluetooth facilitates a world in which connectivity among computers, mobile phones and portables is as simple as switching on the lights. The Bluetooth Group believes before the year 2002 Bluetooth will be a built-in feature in more than 100 million mobile phones and several million additional communication devices ranging from headsets and portable PCs to desktop and notebook computers. "Intel is seeing a significant interest in the Bluetooth program from a broad industry group. Our vision of anywhere--anytime connectivity for mobile computers will use the Bluetooth capability built into many products. Using the core driver developed by Intel, Convergence can supply solutions for many of these devices," said Frank Spindler, vice president of the Intel Architecture Business Group and director of marketing, Mobile and Handheld Products Group, Intel Corporation. "We are pleased to have licensed this technology from Intel. This technology will help us as we roll out the DeviceTalk software suite to support local wireless communications and device discovery," notes James Harkins, president and CEO of Convergence. "Convergence is providing the key software for multiple types of devices to communicate spontaneously with one another and access Internet information. We look forward to working with Intel to enable the future of ubiquitous Internet connectivity," adds Harkins. About Convergence Convergence Corporation is a privately held company that develops DeviceTalk, a complete software suite to enable consumer electronic devices to become Internet appliances. Convergence products provide a turnkey solution for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of consumer devices to incorporate wireless communications. SOURCE Convergence Corporation Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html