Curt Finch


Science Tells Us Which Online Ads Work

A new Disney research lab here in Austin, Texas just performed a study on co...  Read story

U.S. Cyber Security Found to Be Lacking

According to CNN, a new U.S. federal report has found that the country i...  Read story

Most CEOs Not Worried About IT Security

The Ponemon Institute just released data showi...  Read story

Data Security Breaches from the Inside

The former IT director of LifeGift Organ Donation Center in Texas has just been sentenced to 2 years in prison for intentionally deleting organ donation ...  Read story

Hacking Your Brain

Ok, science fiction fans listen up... Researchers believe that the adv...  Read story

SaaS for Saving Money

A recent study showed that 7 out of 10 CIOs plan to invest in IT solutionsRead story

Data Scrambling from IBM

IBM is patenting a new tec...  Read story

Postponing IT Projects While Money is Tight

Gartner continues to predict drops in IT spending for this year, yet they have also found, to their surprise, that Read story

GPS Wireless Card for Netbooks

Dell is planning to launch a GPS/WiFi card for netbooks that will allow user...  Read story

Router Space?

Cisco Systems just announced that they are planning to launch...  Read story

Microsoft and Yahoo Partner

After much back and forth, Microsoft has made a deal with Yahoo that c...  Read story

Smartphone Translator

Remember the universal translator device from Star Trek? Read story

Green IT Saves Money

As many of you already know, the recession is having a widespread effect on the technology industry. One example is that Read story

The End of Outsourced Service Centers?

When outsourcing became popular, many American companies rushed to set up offshore service centers in countries like India. Read story

Federal IT Project Tracking Data

Wondering where your tax dollars are going? USAspending.gov , a website devoted to transparency on govern...  Read story

LinkedIn Asks for Free Services

LinkedIn recently asked thousands of its members to volunteer ...  Read story

Uncle Sam Takes on Internet Marketing

So far, companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook have been allowed to "self-regulate" their marketing practices. This means that companies are large...  Read story

Dell's Plans for an Android PDA

Dell, which is a local company here in Austin, Texas, is currently developing a new kind of smartphone minus the phone. Read story

Social Media Regulation

A lot of companies today don't know what to do with social media. Some use it for marketing purposes while others fear it. It can be especially difficul...  Read story

CEOs Shun Social Networking

ComputerWorld reports that a recent study by UberCEO.com shows that Read story

How to get married on the net...

Being a hopeless romantic, I handed my girlfriend (now wife) a Subway sandwich and a diamond ring when she'd just gotten out of the shower. It w...  Read story

How to Prevent IT Project Failure (3 of 3)

3. Data for the CXO For executives, it is impossible to make effective decisions without knowing what people are working on or how the proj...  Read story

How to Prevent IT Project Failure (2 of 3)

2. Planning and executing projects IT project managers are responsible for keeping scope, budget, and schedules on track, but can ...  Read story

How to Prevent IT Project Failure (1 of 3)

1: Managing resources IT project teams are made up of knowledge workers categorized by skill types or job functions, and finding the right ...  Read story

Mobile Device Etiquette

The NY Times just published an article on manners and mobile devices . In today's wor...  Read story

IT Project Failures Are On the Rise

The Standish Group just released a new CHAOS...  Read story

Can Twitter Make Money?

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, has said , "I think Twitter's a success for us...  Read story

Vanity URLs on Facebook

It looks like Facebook is now going to offer "vanity URLs" , ...  Read story

Help - My Printer Is Broken Again

Inside a printer cartridge (laser) are tiny, tiny pieces of plastic. Yep. "Toner" is actually ground up plastic. Who knew? In any case, these...  Read story

Your Next Accounting System Will Be ... Free!

I spoke with Tate Holt , the CEO of NetBooks recently. ...  Read story

1/3 of Discarded Hard Disks Contain Sensitive Data

Your machine dies, and sometimes rather than repair it you go buy a new one, right, but what bad thing happens if you throw away an old hard drive ...  Read story

Using Nanotubes to Store Data Forever

A nanotube is a very tiny cylindrical structure that ...  Read story

How Software Companies Get Stimulated

President Obama is pushing billions of dollars of stimulus money into the economy and software company CEOs (like me) are more than just a little in...  Read story

Clean Your Cell Phone - Avoid Swine Flu

A couple of years ago we found out that germ-a-phobes had something new to worry about - their cellphones were Read story

Chicks Dig a Smart Bird - Mockingbird That Is...

A team of scientists in the US have discovered a correlation between weather volatility an...  Read story

New Genes Slow Aging

400 years ago, Juan Ponce de Leon scoured Florida in a vain search for the legendary fountain of youth. He didn't find it. But perhaps now scient...  Read story

How Smart Is Your Seafood?

RFID tags are small devices incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. They are Read story

Manage IT like a Refinery?

Refineries have process automation software measuring and controlling every valve and pump in the entire system. This allows them to make g...  Read story

Job Title Inflation

What's the difference between a Lead IT Manager and a Deputy Technology Leader? Flattening organizations leave smaller hierarchies and less room f...  Read story

Time to fire up those breeder reactors.

Deep space probes beyond Jupiter can't use solar power because they're too far from the sun. So they rely on a certain type of plutonium, plutonium-238. I...  Read story