Cover Story What’s in the box? The set-top’s identity crisis. —by Erik Sherman, Contributing Editor

Features
Surfing on air
Wireless Web services are flying high, but is WAP really all that?
—by Paul G Schreier, Contributing Editor

In & out
The latest iteration of DSL shows that it’s better to give and receive.
—by Mitch Kahn, Excess Bandwidth

Sound affects
Speech recognition starts to make an impact.
—by Marifran Williams

Editor’s Letter
Subsidynesia
—by Maury Wright, Executive Editor

But wait
—by Matthew Miller, Managing Editor

Guest Opinions
Top box
—by Ed Evans, Motorola

Final exam
—by Alan R Weiss, EEMBC Certification Laboratories

Gear
New Products for work and play

Inside the digital den
Bit players?
Digital audio risks exile from Main Street.
—by Maury Wright, Executive Editor

Random Packets
They said it

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