Bluetooth refers to the technology in cellphones, earbuds, laptops and other smaller electronic devices that enables them to connect to networks. This same technology is used in Bluetooth beacons, ...

Industry analyst IHS predicts that Bluetooth connectivity on all mobile-phone types will reach 96% by 2018. They will ultimately become the enabling hub, connecting an increasing range of consumer ...

2015 will be the year of the beacon, as companies of all sorts begin deploying these Bluetooth nodes that (at a mininum) tell a smartphone precisely where it is so that an app can act on the specific ...

Bluetooth beacons enable proximity-based contextual awareness, but implementing beacons on a product can present some interesting design and development challenges. First, there is no official ...

Bluetooth beacons — small transmitters that retailers can use to broadcast offers to shoppers' mobile phones — have always lived at the periphery of the payments world. But that may be changing very ...

Users of the Chrome beta for Android are in for a bit of a treat, as the latest version has added support for "Physical Web" beacons. Don't worry if you've never heard of these, because most haven't.