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While he’s looking for that, Marco, do you have another question? Marco Rodriguez —Stonegate Securities—Analyst Yes, I was wondering if perhaps you can give us an update on the competitive environment, and then I will jump back in the queue. Mark Layton —PFSweb, Inc.—Chairman & CEO I will let Mike handle that. Mike Willoughby —PFSweb, Inc.—President & CIO Sure. So I would characterize the competitive environment similar to what we said last conference call, which is, there is a lot of dynamic changes going on in our marketplace. We mentioned last year the acquisition of GSI by eBay, which changed the landscape of our competitive environment somewhat primarily just because of the uncertainty that that created for what it means for GSI’s business model, and I would say that has not cleared up much in the marketplace. There’s still a lot of uncertainty about the direction that GSI is going. So them being our primary competitors certainly in North America, I think that continues to be a benefit to us as we also continue to evolve our own service offering as well to include, especially to, include some of the agency type services that compete directly against their true action offering. So that continues to be the case. We continue to see smaller regional providers in some of our deals, but we don’t see a lot of them gaining traction. You know, I do think that there is somewhat of an increase in the number of companies that are seriously considering having a different platform choice from their back-end choice. Sort of that master contracting approach where they would potentially choose to have a direct relationship with, say, the platform provider and then choose to have their back-end services from a different provider. This is kind of one of those things that swings back and forth year-to-year. Right now we’re seeing I think some companies that are seriously considering that. So it’s possible over the next couple of years we might see some of those relationships like we have with L’Oreal, for instance, where they may have a direct relationship with Demandware or some other platform, and we have ramped all of rest of our End2End services around to create an End2End feeling solution. And that’s maybe a bit of a trend that we’re seeing right now that affects our competitive landscape. But I would say we’re really looking at similar environments we’ve seen over the past year. Tom Madden —PFSweb, Inc.—CFO & Chief Accounting Officer And, Marco, this is Tom. So, from a cash flow standpoint, the net cash used in operating activities for 2011 was approximately $1 million, and then on top of that, we had purchases, property and equipment of approximately $7.5 [million]. Operator Glenn Primack, PEAK6. Glenn Primack —PEAK6—Analyst Good morning. I have a couple of other quick questions. Last year, Mark, you talked about an opportunity maybe to get consulting fees on just the whole eCommerce area and the fact that more consumers using iPads and mobile phones, and you had a few people within your organization that could probably do that type of thing. Is there any traction on that yet, or is that still in development? Mark Layton —PFSweb, Inc.—Chairman & CEO
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