Headsets - The Sound Wonder by Stefan Rockhaus
Headsets are used to hear music close to your ears from a laptop, computer, or music system. Headsets are a pair of transducers which receive electric signals and convert them to sound. Beyerdynamic officially invented headphones in the late 1930's. They were also the first company to market... • For people who have to be on the phone for a long time, they offer a better alterative to holding the phone all the time. ... • They save space, especially the wireless models. ... • They allow privacy; in a room full of people with computers mixing tracks, there will be no disturbance if everyone...

Headphone Essentials by Robert Thatcher
If you want to escape from the outside world, eliminate the noise around you and just lose yourself in your music, what better way is there to do it than by using headphones? Headphones are great to use when listening to music or when watching TV or a movie. ... - Headsets This is composed of a microphone and a headset, and is mostly used for communicating. ... - Wireless This is convenient because it frees you up from wires and lets you move around freely while listening to your music. ... - In-ear-monitor.

Bluetooth Personal Area Networks by R Heavner
A personal area network, or PAN, is a collection of communication technology devices within the range of one person. When communication between these devices is wireless, the acronym becomes WPAN, or wireless personal area network. In reality, and for all practical purposes, most personal area... Probably the earliest and most common example of a Bluetooth personal area network is the use of a wireless headset and cellular phone. ... Data can easily be synchronized and transmitted wirelessly between PDA, personal computer and cellular phone.

Bluetooth Makes The Wires Disappear by Khieng Chho
While relatively new to the ears of common consumers, Bluetooth technology has been around for several years and number of products that support this application grows year after year. Various technology-oriented companies advertise Bluetooth-enabled PDAs, laptops and mobile phones. ... A Bluetooth-enabled mobile headset can be used in combination with a Bluetooth enabled mobile phone, allowing the user to go hands and wire free. ... Bluetooth is also useful in headphones particularly fro mobile phone communications and audio playback.

Bluetooth Basics - Bluetooth Technology Tutorial by Jason Kohrs
Bluetooth Basics Bluetooth technology is nothing new, but in many respects it still seems to be more of a buzz word rather than a well understood, commonly accepted technology. You see advertisements for Bluetooth enabled cell phones, PDAs, and laptops, and a search of the Geeks.com website... Using something a mobile headset with a Bluetooth enabled mobile phone allows anyone to go hands free, as well as wire free. ... Headphones can take advantage of Bluetooth for two purposes… audio playback and mobile phone communications.

Wireless USB Vs. Bluetooth by Preston Wily
USB is currently the industry standard If you spend any amount of time on a computer chances are that you have used a USB device, such as a mouse or a keyboard. There are currently more than 2 billion USB devices in use around the world. Cables can be a mess When USB first became popular... Enter Bluetooth Bluetooth was released a couple of years following the initial release of USB and grew in popularity because it offered computer users a way to connect precious devices to the computer without worrying about the tangle of wires behind the computer and the inevitable "creative" wiring...

Fantastic New Wireless Technology Explodes Across The Planet by Nathan T. Lynch
Bluetooth does not describe a dental condition in which a patient has blue teeth. The term “Bluetooth” signifies a special new technology, a technology of the 21st Century. The devices with Bluetooth technology allow the user of such devices to conduct 2-way transmissions over short distances. ... In other words, a Bluetooth car kit would not be expected to allow a cell phone with a headset profile to communicate with a computer that had a dial-up networking profile. ... For example, the Bluetooth car kit permits a cell phone in the garage to communicate with a home computer.

Microsoft CRM Conversation Gateway: VoIP - Implementation & Customization by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft CRM is winning market share step-by-step from such the traditional CRM providers as Siebel, Saleslogix. In this article we’ll show Microsoft Business Solutions CRM potential in the VoIP direction. Nowadays VOIP-based technologies and Instant Messaging Systems are getting wider and... New features and services SkypeOut and SkypeIn allow you not only to call to the regular phones from your computers with very low rates, but also accept the calls on your skype phone number in the SkypeIn system.

The Future Arrives As Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Becomes Reality by Stan Allen
As the Consumer Electronics Show is kicking off 2005 in Las Vegas, one of the stars promises to be the emerging technology of Ultra-Wideband (UWB). UWB is wireless networking that is used for a multitude of electronic components and devices ranging from high definition TV, portable digital... In a recent test, an ultra-wideband transceiver yielded fantastic performance while operating in close proximity to an 802.11b network, a cordless phone, a microwave oven and a cellular/PCS phone. ... That means you could set your mobile computer on a desk and be instantly connected to your printer,...

Prophetic Nerds by Jesse Somer
I am an Internet creative writer and journalist and yet knowledge of the technical side of computers still eludes me. As I work with tech-heads I've always had a feeling that they were a different breed of people, with their strange language of numbers and abbreviated terminology. ... Skype is a company whose service of computer-to-computer and even computer-to-phone communication has already had around 115 million downloads off the Internet. ... In the case of computer-to-computer voice communication, each person needs either a headset with built-in microphone and headphones, or a...