Articles by Dice Staff
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Creating the Photon-Controlled Optical Switch
Researchers at MIT have created an optical switch so small it can be controlled by a single photon, raising the possibility of creating microprocessors based on the passage of light through a cir… -
Patches Coming for Serious Microsoft Security Holes
Microsoft has warned that next week's Patch Tuesday release will include fixes for critical flaws in every version of Windows running on every type of computing hardware, from the biggest datacen… -
System Admins and Hackers: Now What?
The last couple of weeks have brought tons of coverage on the government’s metadata gathering, the privacy concerns of American citizens and who has access to data in large, sprawling systems. As… -
What Interviews Say About a Company's Culture
We hear a lot about how interviewing is a two way street, and how you should be interviewing the company to learn as much about them as they're learning about you. But did you know that you can l… -
What Microsoft Axing TechNet Subscriptions Means for You
Microsoft plans on axing its TechNet subscription service, which provides a variety of software—ostensibly for development and evaluation purposes—and technical information to IT specialists arou… -
Apple Powering Nevada Datacenter with Solar Farm
[caption id="attachment_10770" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Apple already has experience in building out solar arrays.[/caption] Apple’s Nevada data center has been in the works for quite som… -
Look to Japan For Next-Generation Smartphone Influences
Upcoming smartphone releases from Sharp and Kyocera to Japan’s AU KDDI network may hint at the future direction of other manufacturers. Samsung’s Galaxy S4 videos trumpeted the fact that it has t… -
What is Agile, Anyway?
In this series by organizational problem-solving expert Johanna Rothman, uncover the mystery behind agile project management. What is it? How does it apply to your workplace each day? Why should… -
Cisco's Vision Moves Beyond SDN, But Product Plans Don't
Cisco Systems failed to live up to its own hype June 26. The company offered a vision of its future in the form of a few new switches and automation software—but declined to announce long-awaited… -
Node.js and MongoDB Turn JavaScript into a Full-Stack Language
For all its warts and headaches, JavaScript has emerged as the lingua franca of the modern Web, arguably second in adoption only to HTML itself, which obviously is just a markup standard rather t…