Wireless communication is blooming along with Internet access from mobile devices which is an essential criterion for information access from anywhere, any time and any device. In this paper, review on various technologies like pervasive computing, mobile communication systems, selective dissemination of information, with location and device independent information interchange specification like XML (Extensible Markup Language). Wireless XML based selective dissemination of information is done in two ways. They are push based and pull based systems. Push based system broadcast the XML information over the wireless channel in a periodic or aperiodic manner.