Bluetooth Background

Bluetooth was originally formed by the following five entities: IBM,
Intel, Ericsson, Nokia, and Toshiba.
The initial five have grown to well over a thousand companies at this
point and the number is increasing. Though Bluetooth is still not quite
as popular as 802.11, there are a number of real potential applications
for a wide array of divergent wireless devices.
For interesting background, where exactly did Bluetooth get its
name? Contrary to what your dentist might think, it is not from eating
blueberries. The actual origin of this term is from a 10th-century Scandinavian
king whose name was Harald Bluetooth. The connection is
that in his real life, he managed to unite several disparate kingdoms
under one area. The idea was to make Bluetooth encompass a kingdom
of different devices and to create a convergence of many different
devices under the umbrella of one global specification.