Articles by Dice Staff
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How One App Hit 30 Countries in 3 Months
How's this for performance? New York's driving analytics app-developer Dash got thousands of U.S. users and has been downloaded in more than 30 countries — all within three months of its launch.… -
How the Push of Activist Investors Pressures Tech Jobs
Recent layoffs at Juniper Networks -- the company is cutting 6 percent of its workforce -- is symptomatic of a growing battle between Wall Street financiers and Silicon Valley tech companies. As… -
Internet of Things Could Prove a Boon for Security Experts
Last week, Nest pulled its ultra-sleek Nest Protect smoke detector from the market after stumbling upon a potentially dangerous glitch in its software. “During recent laboratory testing of the Ne… -
Using Netcat to Read, Write Data Across Your Network
Testing a network connection or troubleshooting a data flow is a common job for the system admin or developer. One tool they can take advantage of: the Netcat command line program, which provides… -
A Hilarious Video of a Business Meeting’s Lone Engineer
Painful. Sometimes that's the only word that can describe what it's like to be the sole engineer in a meeting full of product and marketing types. If you don't think what happens to this guy can… -
Employers Can’t Find Enough Scala Talent
Some have wondered whether the recent release of Java 8 could be bad news for Scala, which gained fans with its functional programming capabilities on the Java Virtual Machine. Scala’s creator Ma… -
IT Service Broker: A New Role for the Hybrid Cloud
The widening adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise is spurring the growth of a relatively new role in corporate IT: The service broker. In part, the need for these professionals is being… -
How This Developer Landed at Yahoo
Carl Baltrunas is a senior iOS architect and developer who recently landed a job at Yahoo. After starting as a junior programmer, he’s worked as a systems programmer, systems manager and systems… -
Snoopy Drone Shows Lax Smartphone Security
A remote-controlled quadcopter named “Snoopy” prowled the streets of London in late March, collecting confidential data from the smartphones of passersby at the rate of about 150 victims per hour… -
Changing Anti-Virus Models Spur New Hiring
If you expect that increasing malware and security threats means increased hiring at companies that combat them, you’d be both right and wrong. Among the industry stalwarts -- the likes of Micros…