Best Bluetooth Product Award Highlights Smart*Home Press Reception in Las Vegas.Business Editors, High Tech Writers CES 2001 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2001 The first annual Smart*Home Press Reception held during the 2001 Consumer Electronics Show not only showcased many of the hottest new products for the digital home, but also included an award for the Best Bluetooth Product at the event. Smart*Home, which took place on Friday, January 5th at the Bellagio Hotel, put some of the most innovative new products for the digitally-enhanced home before the top press and analysts attending CES. The media guests saw demonstrations of a variety of Smart*Home products including: -- Robotic devices -- MP3 home music servers -- Internet radios -- Bluetooth-enabled laptop computers -- Voice-activated wireless communicators -- Web-controlled home systems -- The gamut of home networking -- Internet appliances, webpads and other web access devices -- Next generation smart phone systems Although Bluetooth wireless technology was picked for this year's award category, the Smart*Home press reception had a strong showing of all the major home networking formats. Companies with products using the HomeRF wireless standard, which incorporates voice, data, and streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. within its format made Smart*Home their major show event. HomeRF (www.homerf.org) member sponsors Compaq, Proxim, Invensys Network Systems, Intel and Siemens had a major presence at Smart*Home, many showing robust, shipping wireless devices. Also represented were the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (communications, networking, protocol, standard) Home Phoneline Networking Alliance - (HomePNA) A non-profit association of more than 100 technology companies working together to ensure adoption of a phone line networking standard which should provide high-speed, affordable home (www.homepna.org) and the HomePlug Powerline Alliance HomePlug is an industry trade group for power line communication. This organization of about 50 companies defines power line communication specifications. HomePlug 1.0 and AV are the two versions of the specification for home networking technology that connects devices to each (www.homeplug.com). The Best Bluetooth Product was judged by a select group of top media professionals, including Rob Enderle Rob Enderle, founder of the Enderle Group, is a consultant, writer, and widely quoted technical and legal analyst in the information technology industry. Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices, the SCO Group, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell are (or have been) among his clients. , an analyst and Vice President of Giga Information Group; Frank Vizard viz·ard also vis·ard n. 1. A visor or mask. 2. A disguise. [Alteration of obsolete vizar, from Middle English viser; see visor.] , Technology Editor of Popular Science; and Bill Howard, Senior Executive Editor, PC Magazine. Although the judges commented that all of the competing Bluetooth products were top notch and some of the best starting to hit this new market, Cambridge Silicon Radio walked away with the award. "Cambridge Silicon Radio is very pleased to receive the recognition of the judges for the Best Bluetooth Product award. Smart*Home was an ideal forum for us to exchange ideas and to communicate the latest that we have to offer with the key press attending this event," said Eric Janson, Vice President North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. Sales Marketing and Applications. CSR's first product is the BlueCore(TM) family of CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. solutions for Bluetooth applications. BlueCore combines the baseband DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive , radio and microcontroller functions in a single-chip. Four companies out of the more than 30 companies sponsoring Smart*Home had Bluetooth products or technology. Competing for the Award in addition to Cambridge Silicon Radio was 3Com with their trio of wireless Bluetooth Access Point, PC Card and USB Adapter Refers to some type of network or communications controller that plugs into the computer via the USB port. It may refer to an Ethernet adapter, Bluetooth adapter or serial or parallel port adapter. ; Compaq Computer with their laptop computer with integrated Bluetooth communications; and Toshiba with the first fully integrated Bluetooth PC Card solution. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. John Davis, founder of JP Davis & Co. the producer of the Smart*Home reception, "Tonight was just the beginning of our increased focus on smart, new technology for the consumer. The robotic lawnmower from Friendly Robotics and the Aibo robot pet from Sony, both shown at Smart*Home, are two great examples of how robotic companions are being accepted into our homes. We will be demonstrating more truly smart, not just more complex, consumer technology at upcoming events. Look for another Smart*Home event at another major tradeshow soon." JP Davis & Co. produces events that bring the media together with the innovators in new technology. |
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