Best of the blogs: Most IT pros don’t typically think of the U.S. government actually leading in technology, except in the cases of top secret projects deep within the DOD, etc. But that’s wrong, according to David Linthicum in this Real World SOA post. “Many of the government organizations are both bullish on SOA and blazing trails that most of the commercial sector has yet to attempt,” he reports. “These guys could provide key data points that will benefit implementation of SOA in the corporate world.” Slideshow: Last year was chock full of gaffes, to be sure. From HP’s embarrassing spying scandal, which somehow was not even the top of the list, to an executive busted for DRAM price fixing. View 2006’s biggest IT blunders here. The news beat: Seagate and Hitachi are racing to be the first to market with 1TB hard-disk drives, and both are eyeing delivery in the first half of next year. Toshiba, meanwhile, preps a desktop HD DVD drive, which it will deliver next month and, later this year, follow with a notebook version. And Taiwanese music player maker Luxpro is suing Apple for lost sales. Technology Industry