Author: Keith Evans
Date: 09:43:43 09/27/03
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On September 27, 2003 at 10:16:39, Alastair Scott wrote: >I have tried similar things with IR and PalmOS; I would guess that the volumes >of chess-related products are so small that the R&D to include Bluetooth can't >be justified ... especially given that there are licence fees and all manner of >Chinese walls to climb over: > >http://www.radioregs.co.uk/bluetoot.htm > >(Don't know about the USA, but certainly in the UK there is enormous and, I >suggest, quite excessive nervousness about radio interference; rollout of DSL >was fought until the Radiocommunications Agency, a truly hideous regulatory >organisation which seems to be against everything by default, was sidelined). I think that if they just had a serial port on the clock, then one could use an external serial to bluetooth converter. This wouldn't be as elegant as an integrated bluetooth radio, but at least it would make it possible. You might be able to hide it in a pedestal. At our company somebody took one of our internally developed GPS modules and linked it with an iPaq using such a device.
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