Articles by Dice Staff
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iOS Notifications: UILocalNotifications and Remote Notifications
My last post discussed NSNotificationCenter and Notification Center. I’ll now continue with UILocalNotification and Remote Notifications. UILocalNotification A UILocalNotification is set within a… -
IBM Expands Big Data Academic Program
With the explosive growth in Big Data and the new jobs expected to be created around it -- 4.4 million worldwide by 2015 – IBM’s working with more than 1,000 universities to prepare students to d… -
Micron Technology to Cut 1,500 Jobs
Chip-maker Micron Technology plans to cut 1,500 jobs – less than 5 percent of its global workforce -- as it continues efforts to cut costs and improve efficiency. The last U.S. maker of dynamic r… -
A Brief Intro to SharePoint's New App Model
One of the most significant new features of SharePoint 2013 is the introduction of the App Model. We are all familiar with the App Model from Apple's App Store and Google Play. An online store wh… -
Datacenter Gives Internet to 70 Percent of Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation cut the ribbon August 13 on an $8 million data center that has been under debate and development since 2000, when then-President Bill Clinton expressed shock that a 13-year-old… -
Xerox Copier Bug Will Take Weeks to Fix
[caption id="attachment_11580" align="aligncenter" width="567"] David Kriesel's sheet demonstrating how his Xerox copier was replacing numbers.[/caption] There were always plenty of ways to mess… -
Cisco to Lay Off 4,000 Workers
Cisco plans to lay off 4,000 workers beginning this quarter, the networking giant announced Wednesday. The cuts amount to 5 percent of its workforce. The layoffs come as Cisco anticipates a rocky… -
How Gamers Could Save the (Real) World
[caption id="attachment_11566" align="aligncenter" width="618"] A mockup of how the IRL plugin might look.[/caption] Three years ago, game designer and author Jane McGonigal argued that saving th… -
VMware Partner Revs Graphics in VDI
[caption id="attachment_11558" align="aligncenter" width="500"] PC-over-IP (PCoIP) VDI network.[/caption] Just a week after Citrix announced new products to improve one of the least-loved charact… -
People: Microsoft, Oculus VR, Onswipe, and More
A quick look at some of the movement among IT people this week: Microsoft’s Xbox Entertainment Studios added four new executives to its team. Lydia Antonini, previously a consultant and producer…