•  Web-integrated text and a new design with enhanced illustrations

•  Self-check questions with answers

•  Norton Online Notes

•  Norton Notebooks, Productivity Tips, Computers in Your Career, and At Issue articles

•  End-of-Chapter material including Lesson Quizzes, Internet Labs, Ethical Questions, and Research and Report activities

•  Completely revised and updated to cover new technologies and adapt to our quickly changing world. Internet applications are covered earlier in the text while new and updated coverage is provided about the architecture of the Internet 

•  Database management includes new coverage of enterprise systems and Web databases, such as Oracle and MySQL 

•  Improved Design : Improved four-color designed sporting a cleaner, more open look with vivid photographs and illustrations 

•  SimNet : Margin icons correlate text to activities and assessments in SimNet 

•  Chapter and Lesson Review Activities : Each lesson will include a key term list, key term quiz, multiple choice questions, essay questions, and lab projects. Each chapter includes additional lab projects, discussion questions, research report, and ethical issue questions 

•  Flexible Organization : Each book consists of chapters, each divided into two lessons that enable instructors to more flexibly adapt the book to their course and visa versa