Articles by Dice Staff
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Microsoft's App Incentive Won't Excite Many Developers
Is Microsoft's incentive program for app developers a sign of desperation? The software giant's offering developers $100 for each app published in the Windows and Windows Phone stores. The cash i… -
Parity for Some, But Tech Women's Pay Lags Overall
Women and men in technology have pay parity so long as they have similar job titles, experience and education. Despite that, women's pay still lags across the overall industry. The reason, accord… -
Power Outage Takes Down DreamHost
A pair of power outages at hosting provider DreamHost took the hosting provider down for the better part of two days, leading to thousands of angry customers. Meanwhile, a frustrated DreamHost po… -
Rackspace's Academy: Training and a Job, Too?
Cynics will say that Rackspace's creation of Open Cloud Academy is self-serving, but that doesn't mean it won't help tech professionals who want to expand their skills. Rackspace, after all, is a… -
Found a Linux Job? Tell Us How You Did It
We've stirred up a controversy around the issue of whether Linux system admins have a future or not. My opinion is the long-term opportunities are limited, so only the best will find positions. O… -
How to Design an Engineering Training Plan
We've been exploring the tale of the startup and the engineer, and how their fates became entwined. First, we looked at the hiring wish list -- the job description -- drawn up by the managers of… -
Nvidia Tegra to Add CUDA Parallel-Processing Technology
[caption id="attachment_8606" align="aligncenter" width="618"] "Kayla," a board combining Nvidia's Tegra chips.[/caption] Nvidia presented an intriguing vision of a low-power computing future at… -
Tech Jobs: Rosetta Stone Hires; AT&T, VMWare Cut
Here's our weekly snapshot of who’s hiring and who’s firing across the IT landscape. Hiring Rosetta Stone, the Arlington, Va.-based developer of language-learning software, is retooling its produ… -
Mayer's Hiring Practices May Not Do Yahoo Any Favors
Marissa Mayer's ban of telecommuting at Yahoo and the hiring practices she's said to have imposed on the struggling company smack of practices at her previous employer, Google. So how come everyo… -
Google Buys Talaria To Trim Server Costs
[caption id="attachment_8587" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Talaria means "Winged Foot" in Latin. Let's see how swiftly Google incorporates its latest acquisition into its offerings.[/caption]…