Bluetooth Special Interest Group Names Executive Director; Newly Created Position to Focus On Membership, Interoperability and Strategic Issues.Business Editors DALLAS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 2002 Bluetooth Special Interest Group The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is the body that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and the licensing of the Bluetooth technologies and trademarks to manufacturers. (SIG), Inc. announced today it has named Mike McCamon to the newly created position of executive director. Mr. McCamon will initially focus on building stronger relationships between its members and the trade association, ensuring tight interoperability between Bluetooth products and leading long-term strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. . McCamon joins the Bluetooth SIG with nearly twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. of experience in the technology industry having worked at Informix, Sybase, Apple Computer, Iomega and Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking , in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Europe. Most recently, McCamon managed wireless standards evangelism Evangelism Gantry, Elmer fire and brimstone, fraudulent revivalist. [Am. Lit.: Elmer Gantry] John disciple closest to Jesus. [N.T.: John] Luke early Christian; the “beloved physician.” [N.T. at Intel Corporation and served as a director on the Bluetooth SIG Board along with having recently been elected chairman of the Bluetooth SIG Marketing Committee. "We are entering the next phase of the adoption of Bluetooth wireless technology enabled products and I am honored to represent our members as Bluetooth wireless technology begins to reach consumers," said McCamon. "The SIG can be proud of its successes over the past two years and remains focused on the mission to become the preferred short range wireless solution for mobile products." Bluetooth wireless technology, with nearly 600 products qualified, is available today in a wide range of PCs, mobile phones, PDAs, printers, headsets and other products. As the technology moves from a concept and a specification to real products, the Bluetooth SIG Board of Directors agreed the time was right to appoint a full-time executive director to manage the association's activities and implement the long-term vision for the future of the technology. "We are very excited to have Mr. McCamon move into this new role," said Dr. Mike Foley Mike Foley (b. 1954) is Nebraska state auditor from Lincoln, Nebraska and formerly in the Nebraska Legislature. He is a registered appraiser. Personal life He was born on April 5, 1954, in Rochester, New York and graduated from Bishop Kearney High School in 1972, the , chairman of the Bluetooth SIG Board. "We believe that his unique skills and energy will enable Mr. McCamon to lead the Bluetooth wireless industry to new heights during this exciting time of rapid global adoption." About the Bluetooth SIG Bluetooth(TM) wireless technology is set to revolutionize rev·o·lu·tion·ize tr.v. rev·o·lu·tion·ized, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·ing, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·es 1. To bring about a radical change in: Television has revolutionized news coverage. 2. the personal connectivity market by providing freedom from wired connections. It is a specification for a small-form factor, low-cost radio solution providing links between mobile computers, mobile phones and other portable handheld devices, and connectivity to the Internet. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), comprised of leaders in the telecommunications, computing, and network industries, is driving development of the technology and bringing it to market. The Bluetooth SIG includes promoter group companies including 3Com, Agere, Ericsson, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and Toshiba, and hundreds of Associate and Adopter member companies. http://www.bluetooth.com http://www.bluetooth.org (member site) Note to Editors: The Bluetooth name and the Bluetooth trademarks are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. All other trademarks and names are the property of their respective owners. |
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