 |  | Westrupska Prize of 1 Million Swedish Crowns, from the Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapet (Royal Physiographical Society) awarded to Jaap Haartsen and Sven Mattisson, co-inventors of the Bluetooth wireless technology | | 2003 InfoWorld Innovator Award to Jaap Haartsen, Chief Scientist at Ericsson Technology Licensing and Bluetooth inventor |
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 | Ericsson introduces "Suite" concept with packaged application-oriented design solutions.
Ericsson's number of Bluetooth patents exceeds 100.
| 2002 Engineering Award for Bluetooth Brand Recognition to Ericsson from Frost & Sullivan | | 2002 Best IP/SoC from the 11th IFIP Workshop & Exhibition on IP Based SoC Design to Ericsson Technology Licensing |
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 | Development is quick in the Bluetooth world and in 2001, Ericsson is already on the 4th generation of Bluetooth radio in their design.
| 2001 Spirit of Bluetooth Award from Incisor to Ericsson Technology Licensing | | 2001 Best Bluetooth Brand Awareness Award to Ericsson from Frost & Sullivan | | 2001 Technology of the Year Award from IndustryWeek Magazine to Ericsson for Bluetooth wireless technology |
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 | Ericsson forms Ericsson Technology Licensing, a company dedicated to Bluetooth design solutions.
The first consumer Bluetooth product is shipped—a Bluetooth Headset based on Ericsson's solution.
The Bluetooth SIG is now run by 9 promoter companies, the original 5 founder companies plus 3COM, Agere (Lucent Technologies), Microsoft and Motorola.
| 2000 Highlights Award from Chip Magazine at CeBit to Ericsson | | 2000 Bluetooth Award for Innovation, Highly Commended to Ericsson, Bluetooth Congress 2000 |
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 | Release of the open Bluetooth Specification, version 1.0
| 1999 Comdex/Fall Awards Best Technology from Byte.com to Ericsson | | 1999/2000 Bluetooth Award, Innovation des Jahres from PC Professionnell |
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 | Ericsson's first Bluetooth silicon is ready.
Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia and Toshiba form the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). |
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 | With the original idea to link the two worlds of computers and phones, the Bluetooth name was chosen.
 | How did Bluetooth get its name? In 1997, one of the Bluetooth inventors from Ericsson met with his Intel contact at a bar in Canada. They started talking about Scandinavia and the Vikings and the Ericsson inventor gave his Intel contact a book on the subject called "Röde Orm". When he had read it, he called the Ericsson Inventor. What about "Bluetooth?" Harald Bluetooth was the Viking king that joined two Scandinavian kingdoms peacefully. Bluetooth was to similarly join telecommunications and computing. |
Ericsson approaches several manufacturers of portable electronic devices to discuss the development and promotion of the short-range wireless technology. |
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 | Ericsson launches an initiative to study a low-power, low-cost radio interface between mobile phones and their accessories. |
