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- The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is formed with five companies.
- The Bluetooth SIG welcomes its 400th member by the end of the year.
- The name Bluetooth is officially adopted.
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- The Bluetooth 1.0 Specification is released.
- The Bluetooth SIG hosts the first UnPlugFest for member engineers.
- Bluetooth technology is awarded "Best of Show Technology Award" at COMDEX.
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- First mobile phone.
- First PC Card.
- Prototype mouse and laptop demonstrated at CeBIT 2000.
- Prototype USB dongle shown at COMDEX.
- First chip to integrate radio frequency, baseband, microprocessor functions and Bluetooth wireless software.
- First Headset.
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- First printer.
- First laptop.
- First hands-free car kit.
- First hands-free car kit with speech recongition.
- The Bluetooth SIG, Inc. is formed as a privately held trade association.
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- First keyboard and mouse combo.
- First GPS receiver.
- Bluetooth wireless qualified products now number 500.
- IEEE approves the 802.15.1 specification to conform with Bluetooth wireless technology.
- First digital camera.
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- First MP3 player.
- Bluetooth Core Specification Version 1.2 adopted by the Bluetooth SIG.
- Shipment of Bluetooth enabled products hits rate of 1 million per week.
- First FDA-approved medical system.
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- The Bluetooth SIG adopts Core Specification Version 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR).
- Bluetooth technology reaches an installed base of 250 million devices.
- Product-shipment rate surpasses 3 million per week.
- First stereo headphones.
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- Product shipments soar to 5 million chipsets per week.
- The Bluetooth SIG welcomes its 4,000th member.
- The Bluetooth SIG Headquarters opens in Bellevue, WA; regional offices open in Malmo, Sweden and Hong Kong.
- First Sunglasses.
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- First watch.
- First picture frame.
- Bluetooth wireless reaches an installed base of 1 billion devices.
- Bluetooth enabled devices ship at a rate of 10 million per week.
- The Bluetooth SIG annouces it will integrate Bluetooth technology with the WiMedia Alliance version of UWB.
- First alarm-clock radio.
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- First television.
- The Bluetooth SIG welcomes its 8,000th member.
- SIGnature, The Bluetooth quarterly, makes its debut at the Bluetooth SIG's All Hands Meeting in Vienna, Austria.
- Bluetooth SIG Executive Director, Michael Foley, wins Telematics Leadership Award.
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- 2008 marks Bluetooth technology’s 10 year anniversary - no other wireless technology has grown to be shipping nearly 2 Billion products in 10 years.
- The Bluetooth SIG welcomes its 10,000th member.
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