Bluetooth's three-year roadmap

With lots of competition from Ultrawideband
(UWB) Zigbee, and even 802.11n on the horizon, the Bluetooth folks want to ensure their spec doesn't go the way of the dodo, so they're nearing completion of the Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) spec for 2005, which will boost speeds up to 3 Megabits-per-second (up from the current maximum of 1 Megabit-per-sec of Bluetooth 1.2). Also scheduled for implementation within the next three years (i.e. sometime after we stop caring) are security updates, power optimization, greater range (have they not seen Extreme Bluetoothing?), and multicasting, which would allow a Bluetooth device to communicate to seven devices at once.
They say they'll be able to maintain backwards compatibility for all this, of course.