Every time a phone connects to wireless earbuds or a car stereo, a tiny Viking legacy quietly flickers to life. The short‑range radio standard known as Bluetooth did not get its name from a lab ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Bluetooth is one of technology's great survivors. Once ...

You likely use Bluetooth every day, whether for connecting headphones with your smartphone or transferring a few files from one device to another. But what is Bluetooth, anyway, why is it so-called, ...