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IBM Corp. continued to lead the market for application deployment software in 2003, but the field will become far more competitive as customers migrate away from IBM's mainframe and OS/400 systems, according to new figures released this week by IDC.

Students and developers at Google Inc. have jointly created an open-source tool designed to better predict the effect on real-world Web site performance if changes are made to things like network infrastructure.

When Loren Hicks took over as CIO of Toronto-based Lavalife in early 2002, the renowned dating service was undergoing some big changes.

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Many companies have foregone the traditional three-year turnaround for desktops and laptops in favour of four- and even five-year cycles. But at a seminar on Tuesday, Deloitte Canada CIO Malcolm Campbell said his firm has crunched its own numbers and gone against the perceived wisdom deciding on a two-year refresh cycle.

Three Ontario-based companies on Tuesday settled with the Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft (CAAST) and the Business Software Alliance (BSA), agreeing to pay a combined total of more than $88,000 in damages.

If chief executive officers (CEOs) don't want to be wiped out by their competitors, they not only have to invest in information technology but they must also rethink how to deploy IT within their companies, a high profile panel of IT executives told attendees of the Forbes CEO forum in London on Thursday.

Despite the growing concern over the number of IT jobs being shunted overseas, a new report by the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics says that just two per cent of layoffs in the first quarter were the result of offshoring.