What is Bluetooth technology?

What are some publicly traded companies heavily involved in bluetooth technology

• I would like to know what the publicly traded companies are the most leveraged in bluetooth technology. I am not looking for investment advice, rather, I am simply looking for a short list of companies that are very dependent upon the success/failure of bluetooth technology and therefore are the most leveraged "pure plays". In other words, if I want to bet on bluetooth technology without having the investment diluted by other technologies/activities a company might be involved in, what are some of the stocks I should look at? Thanks.

• Answer:

  Hello kow-ga, Thanks for giving me the go-ahead on this. You can search the Yahoo Finance site here: http://finance.yahoo.com/search A search on "bluetooth" will find company descriptions that contain this term (which would only be present in descriptions of companies heavily vested in this technology). The results include the 10 companies I listed earlier, the first three of which are publicly traded companies under the symbols: Telefon AB LM Ericsson ERICY COMPUTER ACCESS CATZ DSP Group Inc DSPG ===== While still in Yahoo Finance, clicking on the company name of symbol will take you to a more detailed information about the company. For instance, clicking on CATZ will get you to: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CATZ and then clicking on the link labeled "Profile" on the left hand side of the page takes you to: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=CATZ ----- Computer Access Technology Corporation offers advanced design and production verification systems for the Bluetooth, ethernet, fiber channel, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 1394 InfiniBand, PCI (peripheral component interface) Express, SCSI (small computer system interface), Serial ATA (advanced technology attachment) and USB (universal serial bus) standards, as well as Serial Attached SCSI. The Company's development products generate, capture, filter and analyze high-speed communications traffic... ----- At the bottom of the profile is a hyperlink to "Expanded Business Description" -- clicking this takes you to: http://yahoo.investor.reuters.com/FullDesc.aspx?target=/stocks/quickinfo/companyprofile/fulldescription&ticker=CATZ with a lot of additional detail, such as: Bluetooth development products offered by CATC include BTTracer/Trainer, Merlin and Merlin II and Merlin Mobile. The BTTracer/Trainer, introduced in the fourth quarter of 2002, combines a Bluetooth protocol analyzer and exerciser into a single CATC universal protocol analyzer system (UPAS) module. The BTTracer/Trainer automatically synchronizes the exerciser with the analyzer to easily capture test results, and its interfaces make it simple to inject user-defined errors and jitter or write complete verification test suites using a simple scripting language. Merlin and Merlin II, introduced in the fourth quarter of 2003, are non-intrusive design verification systems that provide Bluetooth network traffic capture, display and analysis, allowing designers to quickly identify and correct design issues, as well as assist manufacturers to pre-screen devices for standard compliance and interoperability. The Merlin Mobile is the Company's second-generation Bluetooth protocol analyzer. It provides all the Bluetooth capture and decode capabilities of the Merlin system, allowing customers to quickly identify issues or areas of interest... ========== One more link of interest to you might be the Bluetooth ?Special Interest Group? of companies: https://www.bluetooth.org/ They have l-o-o-o-n-g lists of member companies involved in one way or another with Bluetooth. It doesn?t clearly sort out the pure plays from others, but it?s a good resource just the same. The actual company lists are at: https://www.bluetooth.org/foundry/sitecontent/document/member_directory and are sorted into categories of ?Promoters?, ?Associates? and ?Adopters?. ========== I hope this is the type of information you were after. Before rating this answer, let me know if anything here is not clear, or if you need additional information. Just post a Request for Clarification and let me know how I can assist you further. Here's to successful investing...! pafalafa-ga