Providing consumer information in connection with telecommunications sales; providing information that enables customers to make purchases of telecommunications equipment via the Internet, telephone and facsimile; creating, maintaining and providing a computerized database in the field of telecommunications equipment sales; providing a searchable database in the field of business information available via the Internet; on-line ordering and retail store services featuring a wide variety of consumer goods; [online auction services;] retail store services featuring consumer electronic products and computer software; dissemination of advertising matter; [cooperative advertising and marketing;] direct mail advertising; dissemination of advertising for others via the Internet; providing space at a web site for the advertisement of the goods and services of others; providing advertising space in periodicals; electronic billboard advertising; contests and incentive award programs to promote the products and services of others; promoting the goods and services of others by preparing and placing advertisements in an electronic magazine accessed through the Internet; promoting the goods and services of others by providing hypertext links to the web sites of others; promoting the goods and services of others by means of operating an on-line shopping mall with links to retail web sites of others; promoting the goods and services of others through online ordering and cataloguing of those goods and services; business management; [inter-carrier billing services;] providing and conducting business and market research surveys; [providing address change notification services or phone number change notification services for others;] credit card registration; message transcription; product merchandising; providing online directory information services also featuring hyperlinks to other web sites;[ telemarketing; telephone directory assistance, information and operator services;] news clipping services; [providing an on-line computer database in the field of government affairs; conducting public opinion poll surveys for non-business, non-marketing purposes;] organizing exhibits for commercial or advertising purposes in the field of telecommunications and information technology; preparing audio-visual displays in the field of telecommunication and information technology