In an effort to speed the development of interoperable wireless networking technologies, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced on Monday that it has teamed up with several competing technology groups.
One of the key developers of Bluetooth is shutting down the division that helped foster the personal area networking technology.
Industry groups backing competing wireless standards have admitted that they must start cooperating more for users' sake.
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