21.   While a user reads one Web page and the Internet connection is idle, an advertisement downloads in the background.

22.   ZDnet, the technology information site, will also soon weave some advertising into the text of its articles about computers and technology that users read wirelessly.

23.   AOLTV allows users to read and write e-mail and gain limited Internet access through the television.

24.   The data base allows the user to read a biblical passage and immediately call up its talmudic interpretation.