Mark Larkin, the general manager of CNET, did not comment directly on the association's decision, but he said in a statement: "As the No. 1 tech news and reviews site in the world, CNET is committed to delivering in-depth coverage of consumer electronics.
In its coverage of the consumer Internet sector, CSFB has "outperform" ratings on Ask Jeeves, eBay, Shopping.com, Time Warner and Yahoo!, with respective price targets of $33, $60, $20, $22 and $45.
There's good coverage "because of consumer demand for having cell phone towers every place you go," said Fedak.
To maintain their level of coverage, consumers across the county would have to pay a total of $11 billion to $13 billion more annually.
"We support the government's action to improve mobile coverage for the millions of consumers left frustrated by being unable to connect to a network," said Richard Lloyd, executive director of the consumers association Which?
Where one or two companies dominate the market, insurance corporations like Cigna can drive up premiums, restrict coverage, and take advantage of consumers.
If you're into the school 2.0 way of thinking, don't forget to check out Brian Benzinger's lengthy two-part coverage of Web 2.0 consumer level apps for education at SolutionWatch.
As you dig deeper, however, you discover at least nine things standing in the way of consumers purchasing coverage, all of which are outlined below.
But large differences along party lines remain, and the Republican House plan that was passed on a party line vote in June makes hopes for compromise remote given the desires of consumers for broad coverage and of drug companies for minimal government controls.
And, according to Kaiser's poll, the majority of consumers getting private coverage through one of the exchanges have positive feelings about it -- with 54percentt saying their insurance is "good," according to the poll, and another 14percentt rating it "excellent".
