The year 2009 will go down in IT history as a year of drastic budget cuts. But 2010 should see a software spending resurrection as companies in many countries increase their budgets and prepare for growth.
So says a Gartner survey that reveals organizations plan to increase their software budgets an average of 1.53 percent in [...]

Q My netbook battery doesn’t last very distant — are there any ways to get more than a few hours of capability within charges?
A Netbook battery life can range anywhere from less than two hours to nearly seven, depending on the model and what the computer is doing. For example, watching videos with the screen [...]

Laura Fitton’s ascent has been staggering: In less than a year, she’s become mayor of nine different places in several different states, all without giving any speeches or kissing any babies.
Instead, Fitton has gone out. A lot. And that’s allowed her to build an empire in the world of a rapidly growing Web startup called [...]

Retailers are thinking beyond Cyber Monday — a holiday marketing promotion many push for the Monday after Thanksgiving — and trying to spin their discounts into Cyber Weekends or even Cyber Weeks.
Target, Walmart, Toys R Us and others will be running online sales all through the holiday weekend, with additional sales on Nov. 30, or [...]

What would the holidays be without bickering amoung siblings? AT&T and Verizon are swamping TV with ads attacking facets of each other’s wireless networks. While the ads stick fairly close to the truth, there’s a lot they don’t say.
AT&T Inc. has been running ads with actor Luke Wilson checking off points in AT&T’s favor by [...]

Making broadband Net access universally available is that century’s version of building highways or extending railroads coast-to-coast, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday.
Julius Genachowski said broadband is “a critical infrastructure challenge of our generation.” As part of the federal stimulus package, the FCC is charged with creating a plan — due in [...]

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said its chief financial officer is departing at the end of the year and will be replaced by the man now responsible for the books at the division that produces Microsoft Office and other business programs.
CFO Chris Liddell led an effort that year to slice $3 billion in costs at Microsoft [...]