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Contents: Overview: the foundation for your future -- Starting a web business -- Processing hardware: turning data into something you can use -- Input/output hardware: interfaces between you and the computer -- Storage hardware: preserving data and information -- Deciding to start your web business: System software: the director -- Applications software: the user's tools -- Planning for commerce at your site -- Communications technology: starting along the information highway -- Uses of communications technology: telecommuting, outline resources, and the internet -- Promoting traffic to your site: Information systems analysis and design: the systems development life cycle -- Software programming and languages: where your software comes from -- Information management: who needs to know what, and when? -- Files and databases: organizing and maintaining digital data -- Trends in computing: multimedia and developments in information technology -- Ethics, privacy, security, and social questions: computing for right living -- The Future of your web business.