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   From: grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se   
      
   ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.protocols.tcp-ip, although   
   this is off-topic in all the groups listed.]   
      
   On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:14:01 -0700 (PDT), S Claus   
    wrote:   
   ...   
   > What I was referring to with this was a case similar to what happened   
   > at Ericsson (nowadays part of SonyEricsson) when they started, in   
   > 1994, to work on finding a way to transmit data at a short range   
   > without wires. This eventually lead to the creation of the Bluetooth   
   > protocol.   
      
   Correction: that part of Ericsson was split circa 2001 into EMP and   
   Sony Ericsson, with the former focusing on hardware and low-level   
   software, and the latter on bringing out mobile phones which people   
   would actually want to buy. Bluetooth hardware and software is typical   
   examples of what was /not/ moved over to Sony Ericsson,   
      
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth gets it wrong too, but the   
   other way around.)   
      
   /Jorgen   
      
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