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A group of Iranian firms are displaying products at Cebit under a large banner that says "Islamic Republic of Iran" with the bold green, white and red stripes of their country's flag. It's the fifth year they have come to Germany for the massive annual IT show, to promote both fledgling and established businesses.

Technology can still create new fortunes, according to Forbes magazine's 2006 annual list of the world's billionaires. The founder of Indian software giant Infosys Technologies Ltd. and the top executives of Taiwan's High-Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) and Via Technologies Inc. entered the list for the first time over the past year, as Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates held on to the top spot and the founders of Google got richer.

Industry analysts have praised Toronto

IT employees are more loyal to their companies than they were three years ago, according to a study by Walker Information, and the dedication of workers in corporate IS departments has increased significantly as well.

At this time of the year, the media chases women issues. Among other things, there usually is an outcry about the lack of women in IT: their absence in boardrooms is notorious, there are few of them in the IT trenches, and even fewer enrolled in technical colleges and universities.

In the commercial whirl that is IT, we get to interact with all sorts of organizations, and despite e-mail we still have to use the telephone to deal with them.

Are you overpaying the people in your I.T. shop? Are you doing the right things to keep I.T. staff happy? What about your compensation

While collaborative technologies are more popular than ever, their successful deployment is still an enormous challenge. Based on extensive user feedback, collaboration expert David Coleman identifies common causes of failure for such projects, as well as success factors common to organizations with a successful track record at deploying such technologies.