CSR Receives Two Key Appointments at the Bluetooth SIG: Robin Heydon Appointed Chairman of Bluetooth Architecture Review Board; Kristine Overlaur Appointed to Bluetooth SIG Marketing Group.CAMBRIDGE, England -- Ref: EME n. 1. An uncle. 9706 CSR plc (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor : CSR (1) (Customer Service Representative) A person who handles a customer's request regarding a bill, account changes or service or merchandise ordered. Agents in call centers are known as CSRs. See call center. .L) today announced that two of its team have been appointed to senior positions at the 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). Robin Heydon has been appointed to be Chairman of the Bluetooth Architecture Review Board (BARB), a key position in driving the technological development of the Bluetooth standard. Kristine Overlaur, Technical Marketing Manager, North America, for CSR has also been appointed to Chair of the Marketing Committee at the SIG. As the leading provider of Bluetooth technology, with a design share of over 60 percent and a volume share of almost 50 percent, CSR has an important role to play at the SIG. Robin Heydon is a technical consultant for CSR and, in his position on many technical committees at the SIG, has played a driving role in the continued development of the Bluetooth standard. The BARB is the highest technical committee within the Bluetooth SIG and the appointment of Heydon as its Chairman reflects the contribution Robin and CSR have made to the development of the Bluetooth specification. Robin is a regular speaker at Bluetooth technology seminars around the world and is currently based in the R&D group at CSR's headquarters in Cambridge, UK. Prior to his employment at CSR, Robin worked in the computer gaming and toy industry. He graduated from Manchester University in the UK and holds an honours degree in computer science. Kristine Overlaur is the Technical Marketing Manager, North America, for CSR and her key role at CSR is to support the cellular customers in North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. and parts of Asia. The Bluetooth SIG Marketing Committee decides plans and activities that promote Bluetooth wireless technology, the Bluetooth Brand, the Bluetooth Specification, the Bluetooth Qualification Program, and membership in the Bluetooth SIG. These activities include, but are not limited to, public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , promotion of interoperability forums, development of conferences and other similar activities and functions, development of marketing strategy and contribution to Bluetooth technology roadmaps. Prior to joining CSR, Kristine worked at Dallas Semiconductor and Texas instruments as a Chip Design Engineer and Systems Architect Engineer respectively. She graduated from San Diego State University San Diego State University (SDSU), founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area (generally the City and County of San Diego), and is part of the California State University system. with her Masters in Electrical Engineering. About CSR CSR plc (Cambridge Silicon Radio) is a leading provider of single-chip radio devices for short-range wireless communication. CSR offers developed hardware/software solutions for Bluetooth based around BlueCore, a fully integrated 2.4 GHz radio, baseband and microcontroller. BlueCore features in over 60 per cent of all qualified Bluetooth v1.1 and v1.2 enabled products and modules listed on the Bluetooth website with industry leaders Nokia, Dell, Panasonic, Sharp, Motorola, 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) , Apple, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Toshiba, RIM and Sony using BlueCore devices in their range of Bluetooth products. CSR is now producing its fourth generation BlueCore devices to support the recently released Enhanced Data Rate standard. On 9 November 2004 CSR announced the first single chip IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.11a, b, g embedded solution specifically targeting the mobile phone and consumer electronics markets. CSR has its headquarters in Cambridge, UK, and offices in Richardson, Texas, USA; Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, Korea; Taipei, Taiwan and Aalborg, Denmark. More information can be found at www.csr.com and the partner web site www.btdesigner.com More information about Bluetooth technology can be found on the SIG web site at www.bluetooth.com |
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