IF YOU'RE concerned about last week's World Health Organization report linking cellphone use and increased risk of brain cancer, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has the solution you might expect: Use Bluetooth. In a post on the official Bluetooth blog, SIG Executive Director Mike Foley touted Bluetooth as a low-power technology that could negate the risk of cellphone-induced brain cancer by allowing users to talk into their handsets at a distance instead of holding them directly up to their heads. "There is no need to hold that cell phone to your ear,' writes Foley. 'Bluetooth wireless headsets offer a safer solution.
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