And while Gartner expects IT spending will be greatly affected in the fourth quarter as the economic climate has taken a toll in the past two weeks, the research firm does not believe the full year outlook will substantially change for IT spending.

And within the software sector, security software is expected to actually [...]

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Feeling technical today? I did an exhaustive Q&A with ITBusinessEdge about SOA Governance and the role it plays in their enterprise. For those who don’t already know, “SOA governance” is the set of policies and activities that help to manage an SOA environment.

Typically, rules are not effective until there is a baseline [...]

Why in the world would Microsoft make available a free–and very cool–digital photo-viewing technology? Josh Lowensohn of Webware, who has been testing the new tool, offers his take.

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Photosynthing the nation’s capital

Still having a rotten time with parallel parking? Well, if [...]

NEC also designed the display with its green hat on. They registered the EA221WM as EPEAT Gold, which requires that it be Energy Star-compliant. As such, the display should cut back on its own greenhouse gas emissions by 20 to 30 percent.

The display ships in September for a street price of $389.99.
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The 22-inch [...]

Dell will sell you a 128GB solid state drive for an unprecedented $649. But wait. An IDC report claims the performance gap between solid state drives and lower-cost high-performance hard disk drives is not that significant at the system level.
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IDC’s Reinsel also said that system redesigns will be necessary in both PCs [...]

The State of California has for years been a supporter of Real ID, if not an altogether enthusiastic one. Now that may be about to change.

Last year, Denise Blair, the assistant deputy director of the California Department of Motor Vehicles said of Real ID: “We’re certainly not the rabble-rousers out there trying to lead a [...]

Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson (left) and Scaled Composites CEO Burt Rutan unveil the final design for for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.
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Ready to pony up $200,000 for a ride into space? Virgin Galactic unveiled its final design for SpaceShipTwo, a suborbital spacecraft for private citizens, at an event Wednesday at New York’s [...]

A new service called Rentbits, created by some former Google employees, is officially launching this morning and is joining a crowded group of other search verticals that help people solve this problem.
Rentbits lets you search though local housing listings from all over the Web, although only a handful of listing suppliers are included in [...]

YouTube viewers will eventually choose the winner.

Contestants have until October 5 to submit news clips three-minutes long or less that must focus on stories largely overlooked or ignored by traditional media. The Pulitzer Center will judge the competition and plans to trim the contestants down to 10 finalists following the initial round.

The winner [...]

The Federal Communications Commission has scheduled a June 12 hearing to debate whether the agency should regulate early termination fees (ETFs) on cell phone contracts. According to The Washington Post, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin hopes to address growing consumer complaints over ETFs, which have become the subject of class action lawsuits in several states.

Though many [...]