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Wireless warrior
Symbian CEO Colly Myers is partial to his electric knife sharpener -- but he's built an operating system that could radically change your phone.
Come on, Eileen
Napster CEO Eileen Richardson is walking on sunshine. But with lawsuits piling up, is she really dancing on a grave?
On the record
RIAA chief Hilary Rosen defends the music industry's recent litigation against Napster and MP3.com.
Lean, green gene-counting machine
Incyte CEO Roy Whitfield gives biotech investors and patent critics a few lessons on genomic research.
Tasty spam?
If companies served up e-mail right, consumers would beg for it, says Hans Peter Brøndmo, founder of Post Communications.
Killjoy
Technology is changing our world -- and we should be afraid! Sun Microsystems chief scientist Bill Joy envisions a frightening future of self-replicating machines.
We're here, we're queer, we're media moguls
Is PlanetOut CEO Megan Smith building the gay and lesbian AOL Time Warner?
Cybersleuth
Posing as a thief or informing the FBI about hacker behavior -- it's all in a day's work for AntiOnline founder John Vranesevich.
Vote naked in the privacy of your own home!
While Arizona Democrats cast online ballots in the primary, Election.com CEO Joe Mohen patrolled the virtual booths for illegal hanky-panky.
The privacy police?
TRUSTe CEO Bob Lewin explains how even sites selling personal data can get the nonprofit's privacy seal of approval.
"Opt-in rules!"
How does 24/7 Media CEO David Moore target ads without raising the ire of privacy activists? He asks permission.
Where in the world?
You can't push an ad for Viagra in Singapore, where it's illegal. But Digital Island CEO Ruann Ernst can spare you -- showing where users are located when they log in.
It's about relationships
Do women have a natural edge in tech-support innovation? That's the word from Support.com CEO Radha Basu.
Studio technician
MPAA president Jack Valenti has never downloaded an MP3, but he could have a huge impact on the future of online entertainment.
Bill Gates' other CEO
The Corbis digital archive is privately held by Gates, but it's former human rights attorney Steve Davis' job to make it work.
M is for mobile
"M-commerce" is coming, says wireless king Alain Rossmann, who already buys books with two clicks on his wireless phone.
Brand builder
Lycos chief executive Bob Davis argues that Yahoo's single-brand strategy is the Web star's Achilles' heel.
Wired science
David Perry made Chemdex, an online marketplace for lab supplies, a business-to-business darling. What are his plans for the health-care sector?
Market makers
Andrew and Thomas Parkinson opened the first online grocery store a decade ago. Now they're reveling in a flood of Peapod competitors.
"Competitive strategy is not an end in itself"
HearMe's Paul Matteucci talks about the future, the Stanford mafia and what Silicon millionaires are going to do with their money.
Hold the phone
Robert Tercek and PacketVideo think media convergence is headed for your cell phone.
High-speed Net access that's out of this world
John Koehler retired from a career at Hughes Electronics and the CIA to build fast Net connections on satellites already in orbit.
Letters to the Editor
Why send a prude to cover a bondage party? Plus: Mom should worry more about kid's health than Ritalin's stigma; what the heck's an "Agilent," anyway?
Prime time online
Jim Moloshok just launched the multimillion-dollar Entertaindom portal. Can he create the successor to network TV?
The music man
MTVi's Nicholas Butterworth says he wants the audience to do the programming.
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