Articles by Dice Staff

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  Will Layoffs Turn Playforge Into a Zombie?

  Mobile game developer The Playforge has cut some of its staff and plans to step away from developing new games, according Inside Mobile Apps. This means the creator of the Zombie Farm and Tree Wo…
• How NSA Hacked Yahoo, Google Datacenter Networks

  [caption id="attachment_13578" align="aligncenter" width="529"] Secret NSA diagram shows where it broke Google's encryption.[/caption] The National Security Agency secretly broke into the network…
• Kutcher 'Hire' Shows Marketing Outranks Engineering at Lenovo

  [caption id="attachment_13569" align="aligncenter" width="545"] Lenovo's product engineer, Ashton Kutcher, veteran of more than a year of undergrad engineering training[/caption] It's not clear w…
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  September Jobs Report a Mixed Bag for Tech

  While it might seem that the hottest IT job prospects might be in fixing the glitchy HealthCare.gov website – and everybody has advice on doing that -- government honchos swear that work will all…
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  Six Tech Fields Students Should Watch

  Students who concentrate on courses related to math, science, engineering and technology will have the widest array of job options upon graduation, says a top observer of corporate hiring. John C…
• Erased, Discarded Mobile Phones Still Pose Security Risk

  [caption id="attachment_13546" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Even discarded mobile phones threaten data leaks.[/caption] Smartphones and other mobile devices used in the workplace can pose a s…
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  How Online Marketer Yodle Hires Engineers

  Yodle, an online marketing firm with approximately 1,200 employees, serves more than 35,000 businesses of varying sizes. The New York-based company maintains offices in Austin, Sugar Hill, Ga., C…
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  Software Engineers Earn More at Smaller Companies

  Amid the frenzy to hire top software engineers, the top names don’t necessarily pay the top salaries, according to a new report from Glassdoor. The report is based on the self-reported salary dat…
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  Seattle Executives Optimistic About Tech Scene

  What's New This Quarter Now that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced his upcoming resignation and penned a series of memos about the future of “One Microsoft,” pundits are speculating about…
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  Anti-Poaching Lawsuit Becomes Class Action

  A federal district court granted class-action status in a lawsuit against Apple, Google, Adobe Systems and Intel. The plaintiffs allege the companies worked to suppress compensation by agreeing n…