Hoping to give a boost to the market for Bluetooth technologies, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) Tuesday unveiled its "5-Minute Ready" program, which aims to ensure interoperability among Bluetooth devices and make it possible for consumers to rapidly set up devices.

The plan has both manufacturer- and consumer-oriented components.

Designers, developers and manufacturers will get access to a Bluetooth Designer Handbook with information on best practices and recommended methodologies for implementations, reference platforms against which they can test their products, access to an independent testing facility for device operability at the University of Kansas, and a Bluetooth user Lexicon (available in 33 languages) which provides a region-based glossary of terms for performing common Bluetooth functions such as "pairing" and "discoverable.""