Articles by Dice Staff
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Closings, Mergers Threaten Hospital IT Jobs
IT workers at the nation’s hospitals are watching as healthcare’s shifting tides reshape how they do their jobs – and if they’ll be able to keep them. Hospitals are grappling with regulatory chan… -
Transact-SQL Grows in Popularity
People with Transact-SQL skills may find themselves increasingly popular. During 2013, those skills showed the most growth among programming languages on the TIOBE index. Transact-SQL is a key pi… -
Zappos to Ditch Job Titles, Bosses for Self-Managed Teams
Online shoe merchant Zappos is going flat in an attempt to avoid bureaucracy. Or at least flat-ter. It’s joining companies such as weatherproof fabric maker Gore-Tex and games vendor Valve in nix… -
Surround-Ultrasound Creates "Anti-Gravity" Forcefield
[caption id="attachment_15734" align="aligncenter" width="542"] Video shows particles flying in T formation under force of ultrasound arrays.[/caption] Researchers at the University of Tokyo have… -
The Future: Self-Tweeting Sharks, Printers That Breed
[caption id="attachment_15724" align="aligncenter" width="505"] The future: Sharks Tweet shark alerts, 3-D printers that print printers, wireless fishing.[/caption] Most people go through their h… -
Dilbert Digs at Google Engineers
Dilbert’s cynical take on office politics can be cruel, for sure, and Google has certainly taken its blows in the strip over the years. But this time, its creator Scott Adams has pointed his pen… -
Job Hunting Tricks for Older Tech Workers
Is there any place in tech for a worker over age 50? Not according to a number of once-successful professionals who lost jobs before or during the recession and now find it all-but-impossible to… -
Buffer Shares Staff Salaries in Bid for ‘Radical Transparency’
Practicing what Joel Gascoigne, founder and CEO of Buffer, calls "radical transparency," the company has made all its staff salaries public. In fact, the company, which enables clients to schedul… -
At CES, PC Makers Pitch Win8/Android, Laptop/Tablet Combos
[caption id="attachment_15686" align="aligncenter" width="507"] Asus' Transformer Book Trio is a laptop/tablet running both Windows and Android[/caption] PC makers have been slammed during the pa… -
Even Software Wizards’ Resumes Must Focus on Results
Tech startups continue lean on snazzy titles -- guru, rock star, wizard or ninja – in job postings, though these titles might be a means to compensate for lower salaries and small staffs, accordi…