Boise, Idaho and Boulder, Colorado Become High-Tech Hot Spots 

Kaplan and Newsweek's How to Use the Internet to Choose or Change Careers Special Issue Lists America's Top Ten Tech Centers and Reveals Hot Tech Careers

Think silicon, not just potato chips and you may find yourself in Boise, Idaho, one of the young and hip high-tech hot spots cropping up across the U.S. The Internet economy is the driving force behind a revitalization of the nation's cities, reports How to Use the Internet to Choose or Change Careers, a special issue published by Kaplan and Newsweek, on newsstands March 6th. Silicon Alley (San Jose, CA) is still number one on the guide's list of top ten tech centers, followed by Dallas, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Albuquerque, Chicago, New York City and Atlanta. The guide lists five places "on the rise" in the tech world: Phoenix, AZ, Boise, ID, San Antonio, TX, Boulder, CO and North Carolina's Research Triangle (Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill).

The guide also identifies "hot" careers within the fields of business, technology, health/medicine, law, media/entertainment and education. Hot job titles in these fields include entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and travel agents; computer programmers, marketing professionals, tech support and security experts; pharmacists, nurses, chiropractors, and primary-care MDs; cyberspace lawyers, antitrust lawyers, paralegals, and TV experts; webcasters, technical writers and desktop publishers; and brand-name professors, preschool teachers and special education professionals.

In addition, the special issue includes rankings and statistics from the fastest growing occupations in information technology to the sharp increase in venture capital dollars invested in emerging companies. Graphics also show the phenomenal increase in self-made billionaires over the past four years, the escalating starting salaries for computer-related grads and the states in which the most dollars are being invested for technology.

How to Use the Internet to Choose or Change Careers is a special issue and resource guide focused on the Web's impact on careers in many industries. The guide covers everything from e-education to job hunting to stock options to working abroad.

The guide goes on sale Monday, March 6th, on newsstands and in bookstores nationwide with a cover price of $6.95. It can also be ordered on Kaplan's website (www.kaptest.com), or by calling toll-free 1-800-KAP-ITEM.

Press Contact: pubrel@kaplan.com, (212) 492-5965