{"id":1042664,"date":"2026-10-12T12:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T06:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042664"},"modified":"2026-10-12T12:49:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T07:19:37","slug":"why-is-bluetooth-named-after-a-viking-king-the-story-behind-the-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/12\/why-is-bluetooth-named-after-a-viking-king-the-story-behind-the-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Bluetooth named after a Viking king? The story behind the technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bluetooth is a familiar part of everyday life, helping people connect their phones to headphones, speakers, cars and other devices without wires. But the technology&#8217;s unusual name has little to do with modern gadgets. Its origins go back more than 1,000 years to a Viking king who ruled Denmark. The story behind the name also explains why the technology&#8217;s logo looks unlike most modern tech symbols.<\/p>\n<p>Who was Harald Bluetooth, the Viking king?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bluetooth is a familiar part of everyday life, helping people connect their phones to headphones, speakers, cars and other devices without wires. But the technology&#8217;s unusual name has little to do with modern gadgets. Its origins go back more than 1,000 years to a Viking king who ruled Denmark. The story behind the name also explains why the technology&#8217;s logo looks unlike most modern tech symbols. Who was Harald Bluetooth, the Viking king?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042665,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042664\/revisions\/1042665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}