Bluetooth Application Developer's Guide [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Jennifer Bray (Author), Brian Senese (Author), Gordon McNutt (Author), Bill Munday (Author), David Kammer (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1928994423 | ISBN-13: 978-1928994428 | Publication Date: December 2001 | Edition: 1

"Bluetooth (enabled devices) will ship in the billions of units once it gains momentum." - Martin Reynolds, Gartner Group
Bluetooth is the most exciting development in wireless computing this decade! Bluetooth enabled devices can include everything from network servers, laptop computers and PDAs, to stereos and home security systems. Most Bluetooth products to hit the market in 2001 will be PC cards for laptop computers and access points, which allow up to seven Bluetooth devices to connect to a network. Reports indicate that by the end of 2003 there will be over 2 billion Bluetooth-enabled devices.
Bluetooth-enabled devices communicate with each other through embedded software applications. Bluetooth Developer's Guide to Embedded Applications will provide embedded applications developers with advanced tutorials and code listings written to the latest Bluetooth's latest specification, version 1.1. Written by Bluetooth pioneers from market leaders in Bluetooth software development, Extended Systems and Cambridge Silicon Radio, this is the first advanced level Bluetooth developer title on the market.

White Hot Topic!.While other books introduce readers to the possibilities of Bluetooth, this is the first comprehensive, advanced level programming book written specifically for embedded application developers
Authors are responsible for SDK, the market-leading development tool for Bluetooth
Comes with Syngress' revolutionary Credit Card CD containing a printable HTML version of the book, all of the source code and sample applications from Extended Systems and Cambridge Silicon Radio

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"Bluetooth (enabled devices) will ship in the billions of units once it gains momentum." -Martin Reynolds, Gartner Group

About the Author

Jennifer Bray is a consultant at Cambridge Silicon Radio, the single-chip Bluetooth company. She is currently working in the group developing software for their BlueCore family of integrated circuits (ICs) . Jennifer currently holds the positions of Associate Councillor and Errata Program Manager on the Bluetooth Architectural Review Board (BARB) . She has a bachelor's degree in Physics with Microcomputer electronics, a master's degree in Satellite Communications Engineering, and a doctorate in the field of wireless communications. More recently, she gained a distinction in the Open University's Management of Technology course. Her decade of experience in communications product development includes working on Nortel and 3Com's first ATM systems, as well as wireless ATM, the first secure Ethernet repeater, ADSL to ATM gateways, FDDI, CDMA, CDMA, and Bluetooth. In addition to her communications development experience, she has worked on cutting-edge control and monitoring systems for Formula One and Indy cars, and acted as an ISO 9001 and CMM auditor advising blue-chip companies on how to improve their development and support processes. Jennifer has written and delivered technology training courses (naturally including Bluetooth), and is a frequent speaker at conferences. She co-authored with Charles Sturman Bluetooth: Connect without Cables. Gordon McNutt is a Kernel Developer for RidgeRun, Inc, responsible for porting Linux to embedded devices containing multiple processors. After receiving his B.S. in Computer Science from Boise State University in 1999, he spent one year at Hewlett Packard developing I/O firmware to support USB, IR, and 1284.4 for LaserJet printers. Bill Munday is one of the founders of blueAid, which started as an organization to help those companies who could not afford the high consultancy rates for Bluetooth technology. He graduated from UMIST (Manchester, UK) in 1991 with a double degree of

Product Details

• Paperback: 520 pages
• Publisher: Syngress; 1 edition (December 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1928994423
• ISBN-13: 978-1928994428
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,173,220 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bluetooth Applications Developer's Guide, May 20, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Bluetooth Application Developer's Guide (Paperback)

This book contains an introductory overview of Bluetooth, followed by an assortment Bluetooth topics. It was written by 3 (or 4) different authors and it looks it. It is hardly a well thought out, comprehensive approach to Bluetooth applications development nor is it an applications guide as its title suggests. Prior to reading this book I read "Bluetooth 1.1 Connect Without cables" and many other Bluetooth articles and papers. I was looking for a book that would pull all the information together into a useful concise applications guide. This book does NOT accomplish that.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too basic for developers, August 9, 2002

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Bluetooth developer (Los Gatos, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bluetooth Application Developer's Guide (Paperback)

As a Bluetooth baseband and applications developer, I found this book too basic to make much use out of. The only thing that I found useful is that they give some performance numbers here and there. My advice to you is to borrow this book for a quick thumb through and throw it away. The other Bluetooth book by Jennifer Bray, Bluetooth connect without cable, is even worse. You might as well read the spec itself, which is more precise and informative.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A comperehensive reference book, February 8, 2002

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Yehoshua Evron (Tel Aviv Israel) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bluetooth Application Developer's Guide (Paperback)

This book covers Bluetooth application development for a variety of development environments. Many expected technical problems and provisioned and guidelined for right handling are given. The format is handy and the vast usage of FAQs and Solutions' Fast Tracks improves the pactical usage of it. The 1 year upgrade buyer protection plan should ensure that buying the 1st edition isn't too early. Though Bluetooth introduction chapters are provided, the usage of some good Bluetooth description book like Jenifer Bray and Charles Sturman's Bluetooth: Connect without Cables is suggested.