<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Thanks a lot, Marc! I will follow these links.</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">The reason for my question is journalistic: Someone from France-Culture wants an interview with me over this fundamental question…</span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">I thought that Loki, the Nordic gods' messager-trickster, would have made also a relevant saint-patron for a communication device, but Nils Rydbeck choose <em>Bluetooth</em>, so be it.</span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Best,</span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Pierre</span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>De: </b>"Marc Weber" <marc@webhistory.org><br><b>À: </b>"Pierre Mounier-Kuhn" <mounier@msh-paris.fr><br><b>Cc: </b>"members" <members@sigcis.org><br><b>Envoyé: </b>Jeudi 22 Avril 2021 18:55:07<br><b>Objet: </b>Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Meaning of "Bluetooth"?<br></div><br><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">Dear Pierre,<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Greetings! Yes. When I interviewed one of the main creators Nils Rydbeck of Ericsson for the mobile gallery in our Revolution exhibition (scroll down on <a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mobile-computing/18/398" class="" target="_blank">this page</a> for Bluetooth headset entry), he said they chose it because Harold Bluetooth united warring tribes, and Bluetooth the standard was meant to unite a little galaxy of peripherals, at the time mostly headsets to go with phones. Of course they also thought the name was fun. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s an <a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mobile-computing/18/341/2322" class="" target="_blank">interview clip</a> with Nils on an early touchscreen phone, he worked with Jan Uddenfeldt at Ericsson who was a major GSM pioneer, there’s also a bit of GSM history in our <a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/makesoftware/exhibit/texting/" class="" target="_blank">texting</a> gallery. I can try to dig up the full interview with Nils if you like, I also did an oral history with Jan. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Marc</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing, <a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mobile-computing/18" class="" target="_blank">Mobile Computing</a> gallery. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote class=""><div class="">On Apr 22, 2021, at 09:11, Pierre Mounier-Kuhn <<a href="mailto:mounier@msh-paris.fr" class="" target="_blank">mounier@msh-paris.fr</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="zimbraEditorContainer" class="1" style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" class="">Dear Friends & Colleagues,</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" class="">An anecdotical query : does someone know why the inventors of Bluetooth choose this name? I know about the Viking chief<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class="">Harald Blåtand</em>, but why had the two developers from Intel and Ericsson in mind when they chose that name and the two runic initials?</span><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" class="">Thanks if someone can give me some clues about this mystery!</span><br class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" class="">Best,</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times;" class="">Pierre Mounier-Kuhn<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times;" class="">CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">This email is relayed from members at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://sigcis.org/" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="" target="_blank">sigcis.org</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. 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