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In an effort to speed the development of interoperable wireless networking technologies, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced Monday that it has teamed up with several competing technology groups.

The Bluetooth SIG will begin working closely with the Wi-Fi Alliance and the Near Field Communication Forum to develop standards, expanding its relationships with other competing wireless networking technology groups such as ultrawideband developers. This effort comes as the wireless industry has seen a shift from customers wanting specific wireless networking technologies on particular devices to a desire for an overall wireless strategy.

"Many of our members belong to one or several of the organizations, so it seemed like a sensible way to move forward," said Michael Foley, executive director of the Bluetooth SIG. "We'll each work on various parts of the specifications and find ways to take advantage of each other's technology, so they work well together."

Currently, a device running Bluetooth and certain versions of Wi-Fi will encounter transmission difficulty if trying to send and receive data at the same time.

But it has yet to be seen whether these competing wireless networking groups can come together, one analyst said.
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