This offering provides full functionality offered by the identity correlation solution without owning and maintaining hardware and related support staff.

The fastest offering, residential Gold, provides 16 Mbit/s download.

The most similar offering from Charter Communications, the local cable company, provides 260 channels for $52.99.

For the World Bank, which has done 14 global bond issues since 1989, such offerings provide a way to diversify and expand its pool of investors.

Those offerings provide doctors with personalized links to patients on the Web.

Michael Golden, vice chairman of the Times Company, told the shareholders at their meeting yesterday that an initial public offering would provide needed working capital.

The merchant bank said the two-tier offering would provide wider share ownership while increasing the amount the Government would receive.

Some new offerings provide options to search, display and embed data, an example being Timetric.

Mr. Stang said he expects future offerings to provide modest discounts from the prevailing market value.

The initial public offering provided $224 million in net proceeds, which were used to pay down debt.