U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1999

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1999
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1999
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1999
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Pentium 4 processor 672 Clock speed is 3.8 GHz
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PC Sales Worldwide PC Sales Worldwide PC Sales Worldwide PC Sales Worldwide
  2004 2005 2006
of PC unit shipments(in 1,000,000 units) 183.32 206.6 228.29
Sales (in billion dollars)   202.7 194.59
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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 Nets first killer app
• Browsers Mosaic, Netscape (1993)
• Open the Web to everyone
• Search engines Google (1994)
• To instantly locate information

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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
DVDRW 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?

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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
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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?

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24 million households in the US had broadband
connections in 2003
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According to eMarketer, the global Internet
population was over 633 million in 2003