9 Apparatus and instruments for recording, capturing, storing, transmitting, broadcasting, reproducing data, sounds and/or images, namely video cameras, video tape recorders, audio tape recorders, compact discs and acoustic discs players, CD ROM players, computer terminals, computer screens, modems; data processors; computers; data, sound and/or image carriers, namely blank magnetic data recording carriers and recording discs; telecommunication apparatus and instruments, namely telephones, cellular telephones, radio telephones, modems, radio-telephony sets, telephone transmitters; computer software programs, namely e-commerce software to allow users to perform electronic business transactions via a global computer network, computer search engine software, computer software to control and improve computer and audio equipment sound quality, computer software to enhance the audio-visual capabilities of multimedia applications, namely for the integration of text, audio, graphics, still images and moving pictures, computer software for data base management, computer telephony software; computer interface boards, network interface devices, graphical user interface software; computer programs, namely operating system programs and utility programs for messaging and file sharing, compiler programs, debugger programs and utility programs for creating graphical applications; computer programs for assisting developers in creating program code for use in multiple application programs; computer programs for running development programs and application programs in a common development environment; software programs for designing, managing, updating and using data bases and global computer networks, namely communications software for connecting computer network users, telephone users, global computer networks, computer programs for transmitting and receiving electronic mail, text, graphics, audio, video and other data from a remote computer network and for accessing global communications networks; software programs for designing gateways for telecommunication sites; downloadable electronic publications, namely books, magazines, manuals, and information letters featuring business information and technical information in the field of computers, computer software and telecommunication networks