1.   Bain maintains that because of broadband technology, the quality of streaming media over the Internet is improving.

2.   Besides providing political news and links, SpeakOut.com invites visitors to answer polls and rate political commercials played in streaming media on the site.

3.   According to a recent study of online users, broadband access is crucial in the widespread acceptance of streaming media like Internet radio.

4.   But Young contends that Microsoft strong-arms customers into buying both the Windows operating systems and its applications, such as streaming media.

5.   Digital Island hopes to be the standard for delivering streaming media.

6.   Digital Island, which provides e-commerce infrastructure services, had already been working for Microsoft, providing services like live and on-demand streaming media.

7.   It can perform multiple operations and is especially good at handling streaming media such as video and sound.

8.   Joe Lenki, executive vice president of Edison Media Research, a market research company, said that for most Internet users, using streaming media has been difficult.

9.   Microsoft said it received a similar letter from the Justice Department asking for information about streaming media.

10.   Progressive pioneered streaming media over the Internet with its Real Audio software for transmitting sound.