Application service provider services, namely, hosting the computer software applications of others; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software for an automatically updating address book, a personal planner, a date reminder, a travel planner, and alumni and professional group links; providing Internet search engines; computer services, namely, providing on-line computer databases featuring information on weather, design and decorating; technical consultation and research in the field of telecommunications and telematics; consulting services in the field of design, selection, implementation and use of computer hardware and computer software for others; cross-platform conversion of digital content into other forms of digital content; custom design and engineering of telephony systems; data encryption services; hosting of digital content on the Internet; hosting the web sites of others on a computer server for a global computer network; mapping; providing electronic verification of on-line orders of digital content and generating electronic permission codes which then allow users to access said digital content; rental of computers and software; providing an Internet gateway web site