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In Search Of Transcend
On or about October 12 of last year (2006), the Bluetooth SIG introduced its TransSend client/server application at the Digital Life consumer electronics tradeshow in New York. TransSend is an application which allows Internet content such as maps, addresses, phone numbers and images to be wirelessly transferred from a Bluetooth enabled PC to a Bluetooth phone or PDA. By providing this technology free of charge, the Bluetooth SIG hopes to help increase customer awareness and usage of Bluetooth-enabled devices and drive visitors to TransSend enabled web sites.
In the words of Michael Foley, executive director of the Bluetooth SIG: "TransSend reinforces the Bluetooth SIG’s commitment to our member companies to find new, exciting ways for their customers to use Bluetooth enabled devices and to consumers to make their lives simpler and more convenient. TransSend is a simple solution with obvious value for the consumer that will increase usage and familiarity with Bluetooth object push applications."
More of the announcement and details at this link.
At the time, the announcement received healthy coverage by a wide variety of blogs and sites such as Gizmodo. So I recently decided to take a look around to see where I could find examples of TransSend being used on websites. Unfortunately, at least with the quick search I did, I was able to find lots of blog postings on TransSend, but the only site I could find with an actual transcend button was the Bluetooth SIG site.
For example, here .
This doesn't mean they aren't out there--it could just mean my Google skillz are not what I think they are. Maybe the buttons aren't easily showing up on Google, or the blog postings are obscuring them. In any case, I might do some further research and report back at a later date.
