Hi Ian, The following is a good site to have to hand. George. http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/ Bluetooth Basics Bluetooth is a standard developed by a group of electronics manufacturers that allows any sort of electronic equipment -- from computers and cell phones <http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone.htm> to keyboards and headphones -- to make its own connections, without wires, cables or any direct action from a user. Bluetooth is intended to be a standard that works at two levels: * It provides agreement at the physical level -- Bluetooth is a radio-frequency <http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/radio-spectrum.htm> standard. * It also provides agreement at the next level up, where products have to agree on when bits are sent, how many will be sent at a time and how the parties in a conversation can be sure that the message received is the same as the message sent. ________________________________ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian Macrae Sent: 14 June 2005 15:07 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] BLUE TOOTH Would someone mind giving me a brief bluffers guide to what blue tooth is please? If I'm the only person on the list who doesn't know, then please do it privately to avoid cluttering wiser people's inboxes. Thank you. Ian http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq