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Malaysia plans to outlaw divorce via mobile phone text messaging after a row erupted over an Islamic court ruling that it was acceptable, local media reported. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said the cabinet had agreed that Muslim men should be barred from divorcing their wives via the short...

Nokia Corp. expects to ship its first GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) cellular phone to the Americas by the end of 2001, the company announced in a statement Thursday...Read More

Overall sales of handhelds in Western Europe slowed dramatically in the last quarter, but Compaq's iPAQ Pocket PC device came on like gangbusters, almost knocking Palm out of the top position, according to a study released Friday by Gartner Dataquest...Read More

Novatel Wireless, Inc. said Thursday that it has started shipping a wireless modem for Palm's m500 series of handhelds...Read More

I'll admit it outright: I am not the best driver around, and my less-than-stellar skills seem to become even more impaired when I drive with a cell phone in hand. But the roads will get a bit safer Nov. 1 as New York becomes the first state to ban holding a cell phone while driving. A handful of...

Like many ideas with roots embedded deep in mobile wide-area network (WAN) technology, m-commerce has been slow to germinate. But lately, many analysts are predicting that wireless local area networks (WLANs) may prove to be the soil in which mobile commerce finally takes hold. To that end, some...

The market for wireless data products and services is starting to boom. You would hardly know it, though. After nearly a decade of disappointment, wireless data finally found its wings only to have them clipped by an economic slowdown. Wireless data growth is also obscured by regional...

Even though the semiconductor industry is in the doldrums, growth of integrated circuits (IC) for home networking is expected to grow quickly, a report released Monday by Allied Business Intelligence says. Leading the growth will be ICs for wireless networks, the study says. By 2006, wireless...

More than 500 million Bluetooth-enabled devices will be in use worldwide by 2006, according to an industry survey conducted by ARC Group and released Friday...Read More

Despite persistent questions about Web ads' branding power, and in spite of negative consumer reaction to ads like X10's "pop-under," Internet users in general actually find Web and wireless ads useful, according to a study conducted in Europe by Datamonitor. After polling 4,260 European residents...

Use of wireless devices for data will grow twice as quickly in underdeveloped parts of the world between now and 2010 than in the so-called First World, according to a new study released by Telecompetition, Inc. That's because mobile data access in developing and emerging technologies is driven by a...

The more connected you are and the more gadgets you have, the harder it can be to co-ordinate and swap data between them. But this frustration could soon fade as manufacturers prepare gadgets that combine functions and do away with the snobbish devices that refuse to talk to each other...Read More

The San Francisco Bay Area this week joined the growing number of metropolitan areas taking steps to allow people to make cell phone calls while traveling through tunnels and other wireless dead zones. The Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) board of directors voted to begin negotiating with a...

One word --Java -- is essential to the future of wireless computing devices, according to the keynote speaker Wednesday at Comdex Canada. This is not the Java in a cup that keeps computer users awake all night. It is a computer programming language, developed by Sun Microsystems in Palo Alto,...

A new study by Juniper Research has suggested that profit generated by mobile betting will rocket in the next two years. This year the European market is expected to rake in $74.3 million, but, staggeringly, by 2006 revenue could be up to ten times that amount...Read More

Maybe the "m" in m-commerce should stand for "minor." "Minuscule." "Marginal." Forty percent of U.S. residents will subscribe to a mobile data service by 2006, yet they will spend less than US$4 billion through m-commerce -- a scant 2 percent of what will be spent shopping online -- according to...

Public wireless local area networks (WLANs) in places such as airports and hotels are essential to the success of third-generation wireless services, according to a new study by Datacomm Research Company that was released Monday. "3G wireless network operators need public wireless LANs to serve the...