Now that most smartphones don’t have headphone jacks, there’s no shortage of complaints about Bluetooth. This year at CES, the industry group in charge of defining the standard, the Bluetooth SIG, is ...

As a result, Bluetooth offers improvements to the Isochronous Adaptation Layer (ISOAL), which is responsible for transmitting real-time data, such as audio. Enhancing this technology optimizes ...

“Welcome to the year of the whores” has to be up there as one of the best real-time TV subtitle whoopsies of them all, as the BBC’s Tina Daheley ushered in the Chinese Year of the Horse in 2014. Close ...

The next generation of Bluetooth is gaining momentum after a slow start, and one of its coolest features is getting a name change. “Auracast broadcast audio” is the new branding for Bluetooth Audio ...

Seemingly overnight, we’ve seen a new wave of headphones, earbuds, and portable speakers that tout “Auracast” compatibility as one of their features. Some of these products even have a dedicated ...

Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...

One audio stream is no longer bound to one listener. With its latest Insider Preview, Windows 11 is introducing Bluetooth Low Energy audio sharing basically, it’s allowing the transmitting of sound to ...

Bluetooth is getting a new spin-off standard for audio, called LE (low-energy) Audio, announced by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). This is different from general Bluetooth formats like ...

When the Bluetooth SIG announced the power-efficient Bluetooth LE/Bluetooth Smart standard nearly a decade ago, users expected that long-lasting wireless headphones and speakers would quickly follow — ...

If you have files on your Android phone that you want to download onto your Windows 11 PC (or upload from your computer to your phone) but you don’t have a USB cable handy, sharing over Bluetooth is a ...

You should know by now that an iPhone of the right vintage can be turned into a mobile hotspot—a portable router that pumps out a Wi-Fi signal on one side and talks to a mobile 3G broadband network on ...