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U.S. Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, has asked the presidents and chief executive officers of the four largest wireless providers to explain the rising rates for its customers to send and receive text messages.

Market researchers around the globe are expecting use of online data providers and online access panels to increase in the next 12 months, according to "The Online Research Barometer," a survey by Greenfield Online-Ciao Surveys.

"We all sell the same thing... there's no difference between what one company offers compared to another." Those are the words a manager of a large, but struggling technology solution provider revealed to me.

Internet Explorer 7 comes with build in web search from the toolbar, just like Firefox have had for years now.

With streaming video footage on the Internet now becoming a key component in all recent high-profile website successes, Atlas and Doubleclick, two marketing technologies providers, are both offering up competing video platform systems for e-commerce customers.

When one company becomes the first to tap a geyser of a market, every other company that follows suit just looks like a bunch of copycat opportunists, even if they had it planned in advance of their rival's success. When Apple iTunes sold one million digital music tracks in four days to the Japanese, Yahoo! and Sony seemed surprised that the folks who invented karaoke might be music lovers.

A study by Keynote gives those two firms top marks in reliability and audio clarity, respectively.

While CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox dominate broadcast airwaves, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and Google make the Internet play for viewership and advertising dollars.