This is where WhatIs.com comes in handy... 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.... --Dana ------------------------------ Dana L. McCurley Editor, ExpertAnswerCenter.com Editor, ITKnowledge Exchange dmccurley@techtarget.com AIM: bunnylvr21 Work: 781/657-1496 Cell: 508/308-4897 TechTarget 117 Kendrick St. Ste. 800 Needham, MA 02494

This is where WhatIs.com comes in handy... 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.... --Dana ------------------------------ Dana L. McCurley Editor, ExpertAnswerCenter.com Editor, ITKnowledge Exchange dmccurley@techtarget.com AIM: bunnylvr21 Work: 781/657-1496 Cell: 508/308-4897 TechTarget 117 Kendrick St. Ste. 800 Needham, MA 02494