When Streamline, an Internet home shopping service, sends you a cup of coffee and a video, the first comes from Starbucks, the second from Blockbuster.

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UPS, for example, just launched a new delivery service that gives customers more control as Internet shopping has boosted associated home deliveries.

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Guttentag lays it all out for consumers on his Web site, The Mortgage Professor, where he has just launched a reverse mortgage shopping service that walks consumers through the different options for extracting money from their home with a reverse mortgage.

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