31.   It also requires that information providers use custom software tools to prepare information to be displayed on the network.

32.   Instead, he said, the individual information providers should set prices.

33.   Kann and his team have rejected this view, arguing that to be a global information provider, Dow Jones must be in the electronic information business.

34.   Last year he took similar action against Prodigy Services Co., a nationwide on-line computer information provider, after it gave his unlisted phone number to its telemarketing firm.

35.   M.A.I.D Plc slid after a newspaper said the online business information provider is struggling to build its news and information library.

36.   Medic is one of the five largest information technology providers to the health-care industry, Misys said.

37.   Microsoft also knows information providers hate the high cost of doing business on-line.

38.   Netscape complains that Microsoft is pressuring information providers for exclusive deals and that the nature of the new software amounts to a monopolistic practice.

39.   No investors lost money because of the glitch, which affected more than two dozen mutual fund companies, according to Morningstar Inc., the fund information provider.

40.   Newspapers and other information providers are rushing to format their content for mobile phones and to negotiate deals for placement on the phones.