By: Transferring Internet content from a PC to your cell phone or PDA is about to get a whole lot easier.
On Thursday, at Ziff Davis' Digital Life consumer electronics trade show in New York, the Bluetooth SIG - a group that develops and approves various wireless technologies for the specification - announced the release of a new version of the technology, called “TransSend”.
According to Michael Foley, executive director of Bluetooth SIG, the free client/server application will allow content such as maps, phone numbers, address cards or other text and image-based data from the web to be transmitted directly to a specific user's phone or PDA with one click.
For users with a Bluetooth-enabled computer, text or imagine files can be sent by either clicking on a TransSend and Bluetooth icon located next to the web content, or by right clicking on specific information and then selecting to ‘TransSend' the data to a mobile device.
Regardless of which method is used, the computer will automatically begin searching for Bluetooth-enabled devices in range and allow the user to select a final destination for the data.
Initially, TransSend-able content will be limited, according to the Bluetooth SIG.
Read the full story on eWeek: New Bluetooth Protocol Saves PC Data to PDAs, Phones
