Cover Story Content couriers CDNs rush streaming video to the edge —by Margot Suydam, Technology Editor

Features
Universal translator
What’s all this fuss about XML? Can it make “write once, read everywhere” a reality?
—by Paul G Schreier, Contributing Editor

Someone's gonna pay for this
The post-Napster digital music world seeks sustainable business models.
—by Erik Sherman, Contributing Editor

Asking for it
How voice-portal technology is advancing the evolution in communications
—by Bob Schechter, NMS Communications

Editor’s Letter
Techno geeks
—by Maury Wright, Editor-in-Chief

The Beats Go On
On Wheels	Pipelines	Megapixels
Flat Land	DVD2DAY	Cool Views
In The Cocoon	The Rock	5th Dimension
SOS	To Go	Looking Down
Untethered

Guest Opinions
Get smart
—by Bruce Entin, LSI Logic

Make it pay
—by Nagi Rao, Surgient Networks

Gear
New Products for work and play

Inside the digital den
Prodigious peripherals
Do features + interfaces = bigger markets?
—by Maury Wright, Editor-in-Chief

Random Packets
They said it

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