Matt Hamblen

Officials at IBM Corp. made a slate of wireless and mobile computing announcements Monday, including a new colour-screen handheld and another in a line of ThinkPad laptops with antennas integrated inside for wireless LAN access.

Project teams in IT have been around for years and are seen by managers as a critical way to develop applications for internal users or even to build new products for sale to the public.

Analysts and wireless industry officials say the ready access to online gambling and pornographic Web sites via cellular phones and wireless handhelds should push the industry toward self-regulation before governments step in.

Human error is being blamed for a software driver problem that caused modems to freeze up on some late-model laptops at the stroke of midnight Feb. 21.

Worries over privacy in wireless location-based services dominated the start of the Mobile Commerce Conference in San Jose, Calif., although vendors and carriers say they are prepared to protect user privacy.

Senders of e-mail can embed JavaScript in their messages to spy on what the recipient writes when the e-mail is forwarded to third parties, a watchdog group warned Monday.

Will users willingly accept wireless advertisements sent to them over cell phones and other mobile devices?

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer said at an industry event in Florida last month that the software vendor, as part of its new Internet-based .Net computing services strategy, will try to put applications such as Word and Exchange on Palm Inc.'s market-leading handheld computers and other mobile devices that compete with Microsoft's own Pocket PC technology.