In the mid-1990s, different companies were developing competing and non-compatible connectivity technologies.<\/li>\n

In 1996, three big tech companies – Intel, Ericsson, and Nokia – met to plan the standardization of a technology that could support short-range connectivity.<\/li>\n

They wanted this technology to connect different products across different industries wirelessly.<\/li>\n

Around that time Jim Kardach from Intel was reading a book that featured a king named Harald Gormsson, who had ruled Denmark from 958 to 985.<\/li>\n

King Harald was famous for uniting different tribes of Denmark and then adding Norway to it.<\/li>\n

And he had earned the nickname Bluetooth because he had a dead tooth, which had gone grey\/blue.<\/li>\n

Based on this story, Jim Kardach proposed Bluetooth as a temporary code name for the technology.<\/li>\n

He thought the code name was appropriate as they were also trying to unite PC and cellular industries with this new technology, much like how king Harald had united Denmark & Norway.<\/li>\n

When it was time to select the real serious name, various options were evaluated.<\/li>\n

RadioWire and PAN (Personal Area Networking) were the front runners.<\/li>\n

PAN was an acronym for many other things and already had a huge number of results on the internet.<\/li>\n

The research on the trademark for RadioWire couldn\u2019t be completed in time and thus the name Bluetooth stuck and caught on fast.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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