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Bluetooth: Bluejacking
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If you didn't physically connect a Bluetooth adapter to your computer, make sure that your computer has a Bluetooth module installed. In Mac OS X 10.3 and later, open System Preferences (from the Apple menu, choose System Preferences) and verify that “Bluetooth” appears in the Hardware section of the window.
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Broadcast Channel: enables Bluetooth information points. This will drive the adoption of Bluetooth into mobile phones, and enable advertising models based around users pulling information from the information points, and not based around the object push model that is used in a limited way today.
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This separate connection ... allows you to work when many other Bluetooth connections don’t, such as before the operating system is running. Finally, you can use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse for installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting tasks.
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As for Microsoft platforms, Windows XP Service Pack 2 and later releases have native support for Bluetooth. Previous versions required the users to install their Bluetooth adapter's own drivers, which were not directly supported by Microsoft.[4] Microsoft's own Bluetooth dongles (that are packaged with their Bluetooth computer devices) have no external drivers and ... require at least Windows XP Service Pack 2.
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The only problem with the thinking behind the statement that started this thread is the fact that there are extreme differences between how the "standards" were set up for Java and Bluetooth. Sun created Java, but had really no way to make it an engineering standard (not that they would have anyway, as Sun would then be unable to license it).
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