The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) published a road map for the technology that spans through 2006 that lets peripherals, cell phones and other devices communicate wirelessly over short distances. Bluetooth has been widely adopted in Europe thanks to cell phone integration, however, this has yet to be the case for the majority of the devices in Canada or the USA. The Bluetooth SIG is hoping that their new road map will further adoption of their technology in cell phones distributed in North...

I'm not one to follow elections and all the hype extremely closely, but with my near feature leading me to live in the states (Microsoft is situated in a democratic country) I found myself quite into this past American presidential election. It is quite interesting to see how the states are aligned by political party in terms of geographic location: Polictical party by state Kerry owns the west - Washington, Oregon, and California all went Kerry and furthermore within each of those states only the...