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Diff. Bluetooth & IRDA

Bluetooth

Hi i want to know the difference between the Bluetooth and IRDA.

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Bluetooth http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,290660,sid40_gci211680,00.html
Bluetooth is a telecommunications industry specification that describes how mobile phones, computers, and personal digital assistants (PDAs) can be easily interconnected using a short-range wireless connection. Using this technology, users of cellular phones, pagers, and personal digital assistants can buy a three-in-one phone that can double as a portable phone at home or in the office, get quickly synchronized with information in a desktop or notebook computer, initiate the sending or receiving of a fax, initiate a print-out, and, in general, have all mobile and fixed computer devices be totally coordinated....

IRDA
http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,290660,sid40_gci214041,00.html
IrDA (Infrared Data Association) is an industry-sponsored organization set up in 1993 to create international standards for the hardware and software used in infrared communication links. In this special form of radio transmission, a focused ray of light in the infrared frequency spectrum, measured in terahertz, or trillions of hertz (cycles per second), is modulated with information and sent from a transmitter to a receiver over a relatively short distance. Infrared radiation (IR) is the same technology used to control a TV set with a remote control....

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