Providing home shopping services in the field of general merchandise by means of interactive television; enabling customers to conveniently view an interactive shopping mall and purchase goods and/or services by means of the Internet, cable, cellular and/or satellite networks, and private networks for a wide-variety of merchandise; providing an on-line searchable computer database in the field of consumer merchandise, including consumer goods, consumer services, movies, videos, software, games, and streaming digital content; providing billing and electronic billing services; computerized accounting services; electronic commerce services, namely, providing business information in the nature of maintaining an electronic wallet for use by consumers and merchants to hold customer information comprised of shipping address information, credit card information and customer preferences; providing business management assistance, namely providing assistance to merchants and consumers in connection with electronic order and payment processing, inventory management and order fulfillment; on-line retail store services provided via the Internet, cable, cellular and/or satellite networks, and private networks for a wide-variety of merchandise

Video on-demand transmission services, namely providing the digital transmission of interactive television, audio and/ or video content, messages and multimedia presentations via satellite, cable, optical, broadband, narrow band by means of private networks and/or residential pipelines