1.   And it has launched wireless services, so customers can trade via cell phones and other handheld devices.

2.   At a Safeway grocery store in suburban Arlington, Va., a half dozen customers traded quips, often reflecting their partisan loyalties.

3.   Based near Silicon Valley, Schwab has been a pioneer in allowing customers to trade with their personal computers.

4.   But their customers are still trading, and brokerage fees that Merrill and Lehman once collected are now going to Credit Suisse First Boston and other firms.

5.   Customers can trade with Salomon on their Bloomberg terminals, as long as they have been cleared and given codes and passwords.

6.   Currently, customers can trade, get quotes and manage their accounts over the Internet or by using Schwab-supplied software.

7.   Customers can trade, get quotes and manage their accounts over the Internet or by using Schwab-supplied software.

8.   Fidelity introduced its Powerstreet online brokerage last year, which lets customers trade, track their investments, and access news and research online.

9.   In exchange for paying a percentage of their invested assets, customers can trade as much as they want and keep ties to their brokers, these firms say.

10.   It also started E.schwab, a software program which lets customers trade directly with the firm and get information about their investments.