21.  Both papers recently began offering similar competing services.

22.  A Redwood City, Calif., company, called MyPlay Inc., offers a similar service.

23.  A San Francisco start-up called Accompany.com recently launched a similar service for computer hardware, and several Silicon Valley companies are rumored to be eyeing the market.

24.  A number of long-distance carriers have indicated that they may soon offer a similar service.

25.  A similar service, Web TV, which is offered by Microsoft, has been relatively slow to take off.

26.  A report in a New York Times News Service article about Priceline.com vacation packages referred incorrectly to a similar service by Expedia.com.

27.  A spokesman for CNN countered Thursday that his company already offers on-line services similar to those planned by NBC and Microsoft.

28.  A service similar in many ways to DirecTV, called Primestar, is also digital and also uses Ku-band frequencies.

29.  A similar service is available at Despammed.com.

30.  A unit of Bozell, Jacobs in New York that has offered similar services, the Promotional and Relationship Marketing Group, will be absorbed into McCracken Brooks.