D-Link Enters Bluetooth Connectivity With USB Wireless Adapter For Macs

March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- D-Link, a leading designer, developer and manufacturer of networking, data communications and digital electronic technologies for the Digital Home, and Small to Medium Business, today launched the D-Link DWB-120M, a compact Bluetooth USB wireless network adapter designed specifically for the Apple Macintosh. D-Link's new Bluetooth adapter provides a true wireless connectivity experience and is the ideal solution for short-range wireless connections to digital devices.D-Link's Bluetooth DWB-120M allows any Apple computer with a USB port, running Mac OS X version 10.1.3, including the iMac, iBook, Power Mac G4, and PowerBook G4 to create connections to other Bluetooth-enabled PDAs, printers, cellular phones, digital cameras, and other emerging electronic devices.

"This new D-Link Bluetooth adapter is excellent for short-range connectivity between Apple computers and peripheral devices, essentially doing away with the need for cables," said Steven Joe President of D-Link. "It enables synchronization and downloads at data rates of up to 1 Megabit per second between Bluetooth-enabled devices."

"Apple's adoption of Bluetooth is important to the industry," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior director of Hardware Product Marketing. "We believe that by building Bluetooth in at the system level of Mac OS X and working with D-Link to make it affordable, that we can provide the launch pad for Bluetooth to take hold as an industry standard for wireless peripheral connections."

The D-Link DWB-120M is strictly compliant to the Bluetooth 1.1 specification and provides connection speeds of up to 1 Mbps with up to 33 feet (or 10 Meters) of range.

Price and Availability
The D-Link DWB-120M Bluetooth USB Wireless Network Adapter will be available exclusively through the Apple Store ( http://www.apple.com/ ) beginning in early April for $49 . Apple's free Bluetooth preview software for the D-Link DWB-120M will be available from Apple at http://www.apple.com/bluetooth .

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