What is the origin of the name 'Blue tooth' ?
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Origin of the name and the logo\nThe system is named after a Danish king Harald Blåtand (Harold I of Denmark in English), King of Denmark and Norway from 935 and 936 respectively, to 940 known for his unification of previously warring tribes from Denmark (including Skåne, present-day Sweden, where the Bluetooth technology was invented) and Norway. Bluetooth likewise was intended to unify different technologies like computers and mobile phones. The Bluetooth logo merges the Nordic runes analogous to the modern Latin H and B: ᚼ and ᛒ. This is the official story; however, the actual Harald Blåtand that was referred to in naming Bluetooth was most probably the liberal interpretation given to him in The Long Ships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson, a Swedish best-selling Viking-inspired novel.\n\nThis logo is similar to an older logo for Beauknit Textiles, a division of Beauknit Corporation. That logo, using the obvious connection of a reversed K and B for Beauknit, is wider and has rounded corners, but is otherwise the same.\n\nThe name was originally only a code-name for the project, but ended up sticking
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It is actually unknown where the term originated, though it is often incorrectly identified as being attributed to the Harvard Computation Laboratory team*.  In 1947, team members there traced a problem in their Mark II computer to a moth trapped in a relay.  The term "bug" was already known to them, and finding a real one screwing up their machine was so funny that they saved it and made a note in their logbooks: "First actual case of bug being found".\n\nThe term was used in WWII and even prior to that in reference to engineering problems.  A letter from Thomas Edison dated 1878 even makes reference to them.\n\n*It is worthy to note that it is believed that the Harvard team DID coin the phrase "debug".
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I think it is short for the Grammophone or Gramophone an early record player.
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It was originally developed by Ericsson.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueTooth\n\nGoogle is your friend.
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Oddly enough:\nhttp://www.bluetooth.com/
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From the earliest days of wireless communication, the Morse code  letter R (dit-dah-dit) has been used to indicate 'O.K. -- understood or received.' So 'Roger' was the  logical voice-phone equivalent.
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The best answer I found was that it originated in radio communications.  The loudness and clarity of the communicator were rated from zero to five.  "Five by five" meant a measure of 5 loudness, 5 clarity.
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There are many companies / brands / products whose names\nwere derived from strange circumstances.\n\nYahoo!\nThe word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his\nbook 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive\nin appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders\nJerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they\nconsidered themselves yahoos.\n\nMercedes\nThis was actually the financier's daughter's name.\n\nAdobe\nThis came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind\nthe house of founder John Warnock.\n\nApple Computers\nIt was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three\nmonths late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened\nto call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues\ndidn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock.\n\nCISCO\nIt is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San\nFrancisco.\n\nCompaq\nThis name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ\nto denote a small integral object.\n\nCorel\nThe name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael\nCowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.\n\nGoogle\nThe name started as a joke boasting about the amount of\ninformation the search-engine would be able to search. It was\noriginally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by\n1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate\nstudents Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to\nan angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'\n\nHotmail\nFounder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web\nfrom a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia\ncame up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all\nkinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as\nit included the letters "html" - the programming language used to\nwrite web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with\nselective uppercasing.\n\nHewlett Packard\nBill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether\nthe company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or\nPackard-Hewlett.\n\nIntel\nBob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new\ncompany 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a\nhotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated\nELectronics.\n\nLotus (Notes)\nMitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus\nPosition' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of\nTranscendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.\n\nMicrosoft\nCoined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted\nto MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft,\nthe '-' was removed later on.\n\nMotorola\nFounder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company\nstarted manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio\ncompany at the time was called Victrola.\n\nORACLE\nLarry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project\nfor the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the\nproject was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give\nanswers to all questions or something such). The project was\ndesigned to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The\nproject eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to\nfinish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the\nname Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the\nsame name for the company.\n\nSony\nIt originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and\n'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.\n\nSUN\nFounded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym\nfor Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a\nmicrocomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to\nmanufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a\nUNIX-based OS for the computer.
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The little one in your ear, called the cochlea
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if you're implying "bluesnarfing"...bluesnarfing is the theft of information from a wireless device using a Bluetooth connection. If you're unsure of what Bluetooth is...Bluetooth is a high-speed but very short-range wireless technology used for transferring data between desktop and mobile computers, PDA's, and other devices like cell phones. A hacker can access information exploiting a vulnerability in the way Bluetooth is implemented on a cell phone, gaining access to things like calendars, contact lists, and e-mail messages without leaving a trace. Hackers are accomplishing this by  taking advantage of a problem with some implementations of the Object Exchange (OBEX) protocol. (this is more commonly used to exchange information between wireless devices). The hacker can synchronize with the victim's device when they are ready to use their Bluetooth device in the "pairing" mode. Kind of "shirt-tailing" and gain access to any information or service available to the original owner. Doing this is highly illegal and not recommended, even for kicks
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According to the English, it is derived from a place name indicating that they came from a place near the woods, or perhaps a grove of trees. My guess is that it is of Scandinavian origin and can be found all over Northern Europe.
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"Have you heard of a search engine? "\n\nQuicker to type in to Google.\n\nOne born every minute.\n\nDear Straight Dope:\n\nWhich Dick came first?\n\nOK, so if this isn't too crude of an opener, I will explain myself. My question is a simple one, but one that has troubled me for many years. I am puzzled as to which of these events occurred:\n\n1. Someone (somebody had to be first didn't they?) named Richard thought it was a grand idea to go by a nickname which was also slang for the male genitalia "penis."\n\n2. Penis slang was personified for someone nicknamed Dick who perhaps resembled in appearance or actions the male genitalia.\n\n3. Some "coincidence" which cannot be explained.\nAdding to the uniqueness of this nickname is that Dick only shares two letters with Richard. Can you imagine for example "Pussy" being an acceptable nickname for Priscilla. Or "Tits" for Theresa. Perhaps "Ass" for Osama is on the way into the language and we don't even know it yet. --Justin aka "Kneecap"\n\nSDSTAFF Dex replies:\n\nSure, or perhaps "to Cecil" will come to mean "to be wise beyond one's years."\n\nObviously the name came first. The name Richard is very old, although its origin is disputed. Old English had Richeard, from Ric (ruler) and heard (hard); French had Richart, and Old German had Ricohard. The name Richer was also fairly common until the 13th Century or thereabouts.\n\nIn those days, manuscripts, letters, grocery lists, and everything else was written by hand; it was therefore common and easier to use agreed-upon abbreviations. "Rich." was used for "Richer" and "Ric." for "Richard" or "Ricard."\n\nRichard and Ricard were equally popular in the Middle Ages, and the abbreviations led naturally to diminutives--such as Rich, Richie, Rick, and Ricket. Rhyming nicknames were also fairly common in the 12th and 13th centuries, and so we also have Hitch from Rich, Hick and Dick from Rick, and Hicket from Ricket. Some of these later became surnames or parts of surnames. We note that while Dick endures as a nickname, "Hick" has thankfully become obsolete, except when tied to "Dick" in rhymes such as "Hickory, Dickory, Dock."\n\nIn the 13th and 14th centuries, "Hick" evolved, however improbably, into "Hudde," from which derives surnames such as "Hudson." W. Bardsley's masterful work, Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1901) cites a Latin manuscript that mentions "Ricardus dictus Hudde de Walkden."\n\nBack at the ranch, Dick and Hick were among the earliest of the rhyming nicknames, first appearing in writing around 1220. Other rhyming nicknames include Polly from Molly, Bob from Rob (from Robert), Bill from Will (from William); and Hodge from Roger.\n\nThe name Dick (like the name Jack) was used colloquially to mean a man or everyman. The expression "every Tom, Dick, or Harry" attests to the this as a long-established usage; Shakespeare uses "every Tom, Dick, or Francis" in Henry IV Part I.\n\nFrom the usage of Dick to mean average person, other usages appeared. Many other usages. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a dick as meaning a type of hard cheese in 1847, which lead to the usage of "spotted dick" (to be dealt with in an upcoming Staff Report.) The term "dick" was also used to mean a riding whip, an apron, the mound around a ditch, and an abbreviation for "dictionary" around 1860.\n\nDick also meant a declaration, in which sense the OED cites someone writing in 1878 "I'd take my dying dick" to mean "I'd swear a dying declaration." The term "dick" came to mean policeman around 1908, and then detective.\n\nAnd we finally get to where you started. The use of "dick" as coarse slang for penis first arises a
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Bluetooth is usually used to create a wireless connection between two devices (in fact, Bluetooth is sometimes called a "cable replacement" for that reason).  But a piconet configuration uses Bluetooth technology to enable a group of devices to communicate wirelessly among themselves, under the control of one of the devices which acts as a master.
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The only thing I can think of is the word "xylophone."  A xylophone is the cousin to Marimbas which originated in Zimbabwe (which is part of Africa)
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Blue Blood to Blue book to Bluenose?  The etymology of the word Bluenose and the phrase Blue Laws seems to have lost.  The only thing known for sure is that the first use of the term Blue Law that can be documented today is in General History of Connecticut by the Reverend Samuel Peters published in 1781.  It is now assumed that Rev. Peters coined the phrase.
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blue tooth is a modern technolgy which allows transfer of data between two machines in a wireless fashion... for e.g u can pass info between two cell phones havin bluetooth ... without paying any money... to sum its useful to transfer info betweeen two bluetooth enabled device....
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its Italian for "Blue", because the team color is blue.