Cover Story Build upon this Device-specific operating systems give developers and consumers room to play. —by  Margot Suydam, Technology Editor

Features
Well in hand
Never mind flash memory. Rotating disks are up to the portable storage challenge.
—by Paul G Schreier, Contributing Editor

Joined effort
Service discovery is a critical technology for painless device interaction. How is it progressing?
—by Nicholas Cravotta, Contributing Editor

Dishing it out
Satellite players launch two-way broadband.
—by Mark Long, News Correspondent

Editor’s Letter
Holiday wishes
—by Maury Wright, Editor-in-Chief

Explicit problem
—by Mark Long, News Correspondent

Guest Opinions
Turn it on
—by Gerry Kaufhold, Cahners In-Stat

Instilling understanding
—by Mike Wolf, Cahners In-Stat

Gear
New Products for work and play

Inside the digital den
Back to the future
The denizens of the Digital Den update past experiments

Faster freedom
Ethernet-speed WLANs come home
—by Maury Wright, Editor-in-Chief

Continuing codec capers (continued)
Reader feedback and lossy-codec-analysis plans
—by Brian Dipert, Contributing Editor

Improved forecast?
Broadcasters stabilize DTV signals
—by Maury Wright, Editor-in-Chief

Less-garbled gab
Broadband lessens the pain of Internet telephony
—by Matthew Miller, Managing Editor

Video central
Shipping products improve PC digital video
—by Maury Wright, Editor-in-Chief

Even more codec capers
Our investigation of compression continues. This time, lossy codecs go under the microscope.
—by Brian Dipert, Contributing Editor

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