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The Stowaway Bluetooth Keyboard is the perfect productivity companion to your smart phone, PDA, Tablet, Media Center PC or notebook.. Brand New Quality Product {aaz35x}{bazx30}{cw9707}
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Cordless freedom without the receiver. Use this mobile mouse with a Bluetooth notebook or Apple PowerBook and experience the ultimate in cordless freedom - with no receiver! No receiver needed Instantly connects to notebooks enabled with Bluetooth wireless technology, without the hassle of cords or receivers. Extended 30-ft. cordless range. Designed for the business traveler More comfortable than a touchpad. Instant-on performance for maximum productivity on the road. Smart power management Long battery life, on/off switch, and power-saving modes keep you going. A low-battery indicator light eliminates surprises. Precision optical performance 1000-dpi optical sensor technology for incredibly smooth, precise tracking. Convenient carrying case Comes with its own pouch for easy storage. The Logitech V270 Cordless Optical Notebook Mouse for Bluetooth works without a receiver for the ultimate in hassle-free mobility. It instantly connects to notebooks enabled with Bluetooth wireless technology, providing up to 30 feet of cordless range. Power-saving sleep modes, a low-battery indicator light, and an on/off switch let you manage power wisely. A 1000-dpi optical sensor offers incredibly smooth, precise tracking for maximum productivity while traveling. Travel without clutter. No receiver or cords are required. Enjoy Business-Class mobility. Superior comfort and instant-on performance enable you to increase your productivity while away from the office. Manage power wisely. A low-battery indicator light, power-saving sleep modes, and an on/off switch keep you going longer. Perform with precision. 1000-dpi optical sensor technology offers incredibly smooth, precise tracking. System Requirements IBM or compatible PC Windows 2000 or XP Computer enabled with Bluetooth wireless technologyBluetooth software installed: Broadcom/Widcomm Bluetooth BTW 1.4.2.21 or above, Microsoft XP SP2 or Microsoft XP 64 CD-ROM drive Macintosh PC Mac OS X 10.2.8+ Computer enabled with Bluetooth wire
Customer Review: Very poor, at least for Mac
I've owned Logitech mice and keyboards for years, always liked them. This one is almost unusable, because it keeps losing its Bluetooth connection (Intel iMac, OS 10.4.9) -- at crucial moments, it always seems. It happens about four to twelve times in half an hour (the longest I can stand to try it).
Also, the available customization is very limited. OSX allows you to switch primary buttons and program the buttons for various OSX gadgets. But there's no Logitech Control Center (as they offer for other mice) to let you make one of the main buttons a double-click, the scroll-wheel button a control-click, and so on.
A software fix *might* help (some software might help!). No word from Logitech.
The LifeSource UA-767PC Telemonitoring Blood Pressure Monitor is a leading blood pressure monitoring system among telemonitoring service providers. A&D Medical has successfully bridged the gap between information technology and medical technology with the UA-767PC. This home blood pressure monitor communicates with your information hub through a serial communication cable and port. Real-time communication is achieved by sending the blood pressure measurement to the information hub immediately. The UA-767PC blood pressure monitor can also operate in a batch-mode to send up to 126 measurements with time and date in a single request command. You can assign and program a unique identification in your service pool specific to the UA-767PC. Prior to sending the device to your patients, you code the device via an RS-232C port. The UA-767PC blood pressure monitor is a highly cost-effective vehicle for disease management programs. System integrators can provide units to remotely located patients enabling them to monitor their blood pressure at hkwome. Combine this blood pressure monitor and the personal scale and you have a foundation for a complete telemonitoring system. With Doctor Pro? software, healthcare professionals can effectively store and analyze recorded blood pressure data directly from the UA-767PC. The software provides printable summary reports and graphing capabilities in addition to controlling the UA-767PC monitor. UA-767PC & UA-767BT BPM for Telemonitoring Professional accuracy via oscillometric method One button operation Provides time and date stamp Clinically validated according to British Hypertension Society (BHS) standard, Blood Pressure Monitoring, Vol. 5, No. 4, October 2000 Memory storage for 126 blood pressure readings (blood pressure/pulse value with time and date stamp) Communicates with PC via built-in RS-232C port (RS-232C cable not included) Downloadable data( Dr. Pro software required)
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Bite into Bluetooth! Get the definitive guide featuring the end to end details about the hot wireless technology that makes universal wireless possibilities endless.
Bluetooth End to End is a comprehensive look at the technology from the standpoint of the IT Professional. The book goes above and beyond a simple re-hashing of the specification to provide practical implementation information on Bluetooth technology application fundamentals, implementation, wireless networking, Bluetooth security considerations, chip technology and the required specifications for Bluetooth device development culled from networking professionals.
List Price: $49.99 Amazon Price: $34.99 Used Price: $14.09 Customer Review: Beware of inaccuracies even at non-technical levels
There are numerous inaccuracies such as page 53 that states that BT range is NOT affected by walls, doors or other solid objects. This is so basic an error and important that one must wonder about anything this book states.
Customer Review: My Dad and I read this book
My Dad read this book and I read parts for a report for school. It had great info and helped me get an A.
List Price: $48.99 Amazon Price: $39.68 Used Price: $19.95 Customer Review: For its purpose, it is a very good book.
I have read some of the other reviews and they seem to complain about the emphasis of this book on the technical details of Bluetooth. It is true that that is the case and for its purpose (i.e. making the Bluetooth specification understandable - some people do want to read about that!!!!) it is a wonderful book. For anyone who has taken a look at the Bluetooth spec, it is a daunting task to read or understand it and this book breaks it down into easy to understand sizeable chunks. It is written by experts in the field and it consistently makes use of diagrams, pictures and bullet points to explain its concepts which makes reading it enjoyable. For readers only interested in only one aspect/layer of Bluetooth, the book can act as a good introduction to that aspect and will at the same time demonstrate how that aspect fits into the big picture. The books has a chapter on almost each and every aspect of Bluetooth from technical details to marketting and branding. I have seen many books on how to develop Bluetooth applications and this is not one of them. That is not its purpose! For its purpose, it is THE BEST book i've seen!
Customer Review: Bad! or best?? textbook to understand or teach Bluetooth
In Hands-free profile explanation, there are some drawings from Fig. 20-8 to Fig. 20-12. In these drawings, the pictures of Hands-free device and Audio Gateway are all opposite. In real Hands-free profile, an Audio Gate-way is a cellular phone and a Hands-free device is a ECU which has audio I/F. In these, the pictures of the cellular phone are all right side left, mirror image. I think this might be a kind of mistake on making books, but it is a bad joke or an evidence of carelessness of the authors that they could not find these in their proofreading phase. If there were same kind of mistakes in the other parts, a reader would need to read all related specifications and check them. It might make a reader to be a real expert of Bluetooth, but who want to buy and read this book with referencing the all specification in the same time?
This book will teach you what Bluetooth technology is all about and show you how to write Bluetooth applications for several popular operating systems. This is a technical book, and it assumes that the reader has a solid background in application development and a reasonable understanding of the issues involved in creating communications applications.
List Price: $49.95 Amazon Price: $37.96 Used Price: $18.41 Customer Review: Bluetooth Applications Developer's Guide
This book contains an introductory overview of Bluetooth, followed by an assortment Bluetooth topics. It was written by 3 (or 4) different authors and it looks it. It is hardly a well thought out, comprehensive approach to Bluetooth applications development nor is it an applications guide as its title suggests. Prior to reading this book I read "Bluetooth 1.1 Connect Without cables" and many other Bluetooth articles and papers. I was looking for a book that would pull all the information together into a useful concise applications guide. This book does NOT accomplish that.
Customer Review: Too basic for developers
As a Bluetooth baseband and applications developer, I found this book too basic to make much use out of. The only thing that I found useful is that they give some performance numbers here and there. My advice to you is to borrow this book for a quick thumb through and throw it away. The other Bluetooth book by Jennifer Bray, Bluetooth connect without cable, is even worse. You might as well read the spec itself, which is more precise and informative.
-The complete Bluetooth tutorial and reference for every professional -Accessible, practical explanations of the entire Bluetooth standard -Bluetooth applications, components, security, and development issues -The future of Bluetooth: Bluetooth 2.0 and beyond
Bluetooth wireless technology is on the verge of revolutionizing communications, enabling virtually any communications device to transmit voice or data securely, at high speed-without wires! Now there's a complete professional's guide to this remarkable technology. In Bluetooth: Connect Without Cables, two leading Bluetooth implementers explain the Bluetooth standard more clearly than it's ever been explained before. Even better, they place Bluetooth in context, covering global markets, applications, complementary technologies, connection to WAP, even leading-edge development issues. Coverage includes:
-Bluetooth: origins, goals, and key industry players -How Bluetooth voice and data connections work: service discovery, piconets, scatternets, and other key concepts -Key Bluetooth components: antennas, radios, host systems, profiles, and more -The Bluetooth protocol stack, in depth: module layers, host layers, and cross-layer functions -Securing Bluetooth communications -Bluetooth production testing, conformance, and qualification -The emerging market for Personal Area Networking devices, including other technologies related to Bluetooth. -The future of Bluetooth: Bluetooth 2.0, Human Interface Devices, and more
Whether you're a systems designer, developer, manager, marketer, or customer, Bluetooth: Connect Without Cables shows you exactly how to exploit Bluetooth for simple, seamless, intuitive wireless communications-starting now.
List Price: $48.99 Used Price: $4.84 Customer Review: Ideally for Bluetooth Developers
The book provides all information about Bluetooth in a Nutshell. Sometimes too many details, but in general a good read with a lot of useful hints.
Customer Review: Excellent all round coverage
I especially like the fact that it not only covers Bluetooth, in a level of detail I require, but gives well balanced coverage of the related technoligies. Too many books operate in isolation of their immediate enviroment.
The Bluetooth specification, which describes a way for electronic devices to communicate with one another at close range by way of radio signals, has great potential. The open standard promises to make mobile telephones, personal organizers, and digital cameras wireless and far easier to use. In Bluetooth Revealed, a couple of experts who helped hammer out the Bluetooth specification (version 1.0B, specifically) take a shot at elaborating upon the contents of the standards documents. They also share some of their imaginings about how Bluetooth connectivity might be put to use. The result of their efforts is a surprisingly readable book that should fit the needs of hardware and software developers who plan to support the Bluetooth platform.
After some discussion of wireless devices and the generalities of the Bluetooth specification, the authors approach their subject in progressively greater detail, defining terms and referring to conceptual diagrams as they go. Emphasizing protocols that are unique to Bluetooth communication (such as RFCOMM, which allows applications to treat a radio link just like a hard-wired serial port), the authors show exactly how Bluetooth devices arrange themselves into wireless networks. Then, they explain how these networked devices exchange commands, files, and multimedia streams. They give fair hearing to the specification's shortcomings, too; noting, for example, that it's good for sharing voice signals among devices, but not so good for sharing high-quality music signals.
The authors of Bluetooth Revealed would be the first to concede that the Bluetooth standard is evolving, and certainly will change as more manufacturers adopt and supplement it. Regardless, this book is a valuable statement of the Bluetooth vision, straight from a couple of its creators. --David Wall
Topics covered: The Bluetooth wireless networking specification (version 1.0B) and its component parts, including the radio, baseband, link-controller, and link-manager layers. Special coverage goes to the Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP), the Host Controller Interface (HCI), RFCOMM serial ports, and the Service Discovery Protocol. Bluetooth futures appear here, too.
List Price: $44.99 Used Price: $14.20 Customer Review: Re: This book is hard to read!!
I received this book recently and tried to assign some time to read it but already after 2 chapters, I can't continue. It is written in a manner that is so dull and hard to sleep. I either put that aside or snooze off. Please, try to write in a tutorial and interesting manner than writing it like a data/ standard specification document! Please accept this input seriously.
Customer Review: It'll put you to sleep
This book bombards you with accronyms! You can't get around the fact that the Bluetooth specification is filled with them, but this book doesn't give you a big picture view of what's going on. I'd recommend "Connect Without Cables" instead. Neither book will leave you with an "Ok, I get it" feeling after the first read, but CWC will certainly get your started in the right direction.
