Bluetooth SIG formally adopts the full spec for Bluetooth low energy that will create a new ecosystem of innovative products and apps that will change the way we think about the things around us.

Bluetooth low energy is not just a variant of the existing Bluetooth spec: it’s an entirely new standard optimised for low power and internet connectivity. It marks a change in short range wireless, providing a new short range connection for a new decade.

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Martijn Hoogeveen, CEO for ICEcat, says their e-catalog analysis after the first 4 months in 2010 shows 10 brands who out-perform others in the Top One Hundred online channel brands. The top three are Dell, Trust and Brodit.

"Brodit is a surprise. It is a Swedish mobile phone accessory provider, which data has become available for online channel partners. Especially, its compatibility table (shows which holder fits which mobile and which car model) is gold, and makes the company the Kingston Continue reading...

Gmail has keyboard shortcuts and this time last year Google offered users a free pack of color-coded shortcut stickers for tacking onto any keyboard.

Now Gboard, a specialized mini-keyboard for Google's e-mail service created by a film producer from California, can lead you to them for $19.99.

The device is powered by USB and users need to enable keyboard shortcuts within Gmail's settings.

Clicking on any one of 19 colored keys set in a standard size numpad-only keyboard performs a particular Continue reading...

Yes, what could be simpler than a sheet that drapes over your keyboard to keep out dust, food, liquid spills and human detritus? Yet, it’s apparently much simpler in concept than in execution.

As a dealer, it’s important not just to sell one keyboard protector...but to addict the customer so he comes back to you for a consistent supply. These protective sheets shouldn’t be as disposable as Kleenex... but once you have one, you can’t live without it. You’ll want one for each computer and you’ll want to replace them every so often. You'll even want to introduce them to friends and family.

Anyone who lives on a computer, including this journalist, ends up amazed at what a garbage magnet a keyboard can be.

Some of us eat and drink in the vicinity and that’s just begging the Geek Gods to punish us with spillage. Some of us are growing old at our keyboards and losing our hair, strand by strand, and that’s just pathetic enough without seeing the evidence snarling under the keys on your PC in front of your very eyes.

And let’s not talk about swine flu and other passable contagions that can come from “guest keyboarding.” Filthier than a toilet seat says the research...a virus hotel where check-in is quick and easy...