1. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1999

4. CPU chips has more than one million transistors & are 460 times as fast as the first model Pentium 4 has more than 55 million transistors Pentium 4 processor 672: Clock speed is 3.8 GHz

5. Dell helps cut prices by selling directly to customers By 2003 some desktops are starting at $400

6. PC Sales Worldwide 200420052006 # of PC unit shipments (in 1,000,000 units) 183.32206.6228.29 Sales (in billion dollars) 202.7194.59

7. Killer PC Applications VisiCalc (1979) –This spreadsheet draws many to Apple II WordStar (1979) –A commercially successful word processors Adobe PageMaker (1985) –Helps spur Mac sales E-Mail (1988) –The Net’s first killer app Browsers: Mosaic, Netscape (1993) –Open the Web to everyone Search engines: Google (1994) –To instantly locate information

8. Test Your Digital IQ Spam; Spyware; Drivers doc; pdf; MP3; MPEG Wi-Fi; 802.11g; Bluetooth DIMM; DDR SDRAM 2.3 GhZ; Intel Centrino 2400 x 1200 dpi 800 x 600 resolution LCD monitor; USB 2.0 32 bit; 120 GB; DVD+RW http; Ethernet; Peer-to-peer Do you know how to send an attachment? Have you ever integrated a spreadsheet into a document? Can you prepare a PowerPoint presentation? Can you burn a DVD? When you meet new people, do you google them?

9. Test Your Digital IQ II HTML; XHTML; CSS XML; XSL; XSLT TCP/IP; HTTP; URL World Wide Web; Web 2.0 Domain Name Systems NAP; Packet JavaScript; Java; Perl; CGI.Net; J2EE PHP; Dreamweaver Expression; Photoshop

10. Test Your Digital IQ III SAP; ERP; CRM Siebel, PeopleSoft, Oracle MS Project; DBMS; SQL Data Warehousing; OLAP B2B; B2C; E-Commerce Prototyping; RAD; JAD ASP; Outsourcing Visual Basic; Java.Net; J2EE; php Do you know how to install an anti-spyware software? Can you develop a DSS application that uses PivotTable, Goal Seek, Solver, or Scenario Manager? Can you prepare an information security plan?

11. 24 million households in the US had broadband connections in 2003

12. According to eMarketer, the global Internet population was over 633 million in 2003