The Geneva XS is very good-sounding portable Bluetooth speaker with a rechargeable battery and built-in FM radio. It folds up into its case.

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Led by products like the Jawbone Jambox and Bose SoundLink Wireless Mobile Speaker, compact Bluetooth speakers are hot little items these days, and Geneva Lab has placed itself in the middle of the fray with its Sound System Model XS, which retails for (more…)

Apple was the first to introduce devices that work with the new “low energy” version of Bluetooth. Now, the first app to take advantage of it – an app that lets you find your car – is out.
Bluetooth 4.0 was introduced by Apple into its Mac Mini and MacBook Air earlier this year, and the
was the first smartphone to include it as well. The 4.0 version of the Bluetooth standard allows for low power, low latency,  simply configured data transmission. (more…)

) reports that Apple is planning to add Bluetooth 4.0 support to its AirPlay wireless protocol.
 reports that Apple announced at MFi Technology Summit 2011 in Shenzhen that ended on Friday that it will be releasing a new certification chip for MFI (Made for iPhone /iPad/iPod touch) devices that will allow future AirPlay products to connect to iOS devices via Bluetooth 4.0.
from an iOS device or computer. The low power consumption of Bluetooth (more…)

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Finally, after number of iterations and delays, folks behind iControlPad have started shipping iControlPad.
According to iControlPad’s product page, it includes the following features:
The worlds smallest, lightest and fully functional bluetooth gaming controller
Compatible with iPhone , iPod Touch, Samsung Galaxy S2 and many, many more
 (no jailbreak required!)
Dual analogue nubs, digital D-Pad, 6 face buttons and 2 rear buttons
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The Bose SoundLink Wireless comes in a standard ($299.95) and LX version ($349.99).

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Bose, create a groundbreaking product? Sure, the company’s got some really nice headphones and decent sound systems that are just a tad overpriced. But Bose? Since when does Bose make a game-changer?

Since it came out with its compact Bluetooth speaker, the SoundLink Wireless Mobile, that’s when. No, (more…)

One of the lesser-known facts to emerge about the iPhone 4S yesterday is that it is the first phone to launch with Bluetooth 4.0, the latest version of Bluetooth. Not many products are available with Bluetooth 4.0 just yet–in fact, two of the most recent products to ship with Bluetooth 4.0 are also from Apple : the MacBook Air and the Mac Mini. Bluetooth 4.0 is backward-compatible with all other versions of Bluetooth, so you (more…)

event, we speculated that the 
rather than NFC.
Guess What? iPhone 4S does come with Blueetooth 4.0 support, making it the world’s first phone to support Bluetooth 4.0. It was strangely one of the features that Apple didn’t highlight at the event.
The new iPhone 4S may look like the iPhone 4, but it has many important differences inside. One big addition is the use of Bluetooth v4.0. This will allow the new iPhone to wirelessly connect to the (more…)

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The latest version of the Skype app finally adds support for Bluetooth headset, thus enabling hands-free Skype calls and also gets anti-shake technology, which Skype claims
. Skype seems to have also tweaked the user interface.
Bluetooth support for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 4th Generation, and iPad 2
Advertising will be shown to users that do not have Skype Credit, a calling subscription or premium subscription
Skype iPhone and (more…)

The Bose SoundLink Wireless Mobile speaker starts at $299.95 and is available now (click to enlarge).

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In the early days of the iPhone , Bose was one of the first major companies to make a big push into the iPhone /iPod speaker dock market with its SoundDock. Now the company is hoping to reach an even larger, platform-agnostic audience with a new portable Bluetooth speaker, the SoundLink Wireless Mobile.

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New standards, however good they might be, need a major player to back them for mass adoption. Believe it or not during the media format war between VHS and BetaMax, VHS survived only because of porn industry’s backing. Similarly, Apple ‘s backing can play a huge role in the survival or death of a certain standard.
and whether it will have NFC. Considering Apple ‘s decision to include less-than-a-year old Bluetooth 4.0 in the newly launched
, it (more…)