Increasingly, communications and networking is becoming a cable-free zone. That's one reason that in the September issue we go inside Mobile IP and create realistic 3-D graphics for cell phones. We also present high-performance I/O techniques using the Java NIO library, improve C++ application performance with custom pool allocators for STL, and show how to squeeze the most out of multithreaded .NET apps. Then there's the EFI spec that will replace the venerable BIOS, and we jump into C++ exceptions and the Linux Kernel. All this--and more!