Articles by Dice Staff
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Cisco Pushes Nexus Line into 40 GbE Territory
Apparently skating toward where the puck is headed, Cisco has added 40-Gbit capabilities to its Nexus 6-series switches plus the Nexus 550 series, beefing up some of its older products in the pro… -
Canonical Wants More Apps for the Ubuntu Smartphone
Canonical's new Ubuntu mobile OS isn't yet available as a package download to anyone interested in trying it out, but it holds great promise. The target market is equipment manufacturers who can… -
Samsung Adopts Tizen OS. Stay Calm
Samsung's finally released its much-anticipated Tizen smartphone, a welcome development in a market dominated by just two operating systems, Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Tizen's goal is to c… -
Freescale Launches Crypto Chip for Data Centers
Freescale has announced a new cryptography coprocessor for the data center—an interesting choice, given that some server chips announced last summer have dedicated crypto blocks to accelerate tho… -
Lockheed Martin Seeks Voluntary Buyouts from Senior Workers
Lockheed Martin on Monday announced a voluntary layoff program for high-level engineers and managers tied to its Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) unit, the second-largest of its bus… -
Apple's Doing Mac Game Developers No Favors
Ever since the first Mac appeared in 1984, Apple has nurtured the idea that its products are so new, so slick, that anyone who used them was cooler than everybody else. So as the popularity of ev… -
Where the iPhone 5 Kicks the Mars Rover's Butt
Giving the Mars Rover Curiosity the brains she needs to operate took 5 million lines of code. And while the Mars Science Laboratory team froze the code a year before the roaming laboratory landed… -
Comebacks for When They Say 'Your Code Sucks'
It's tough enough to have people criticize your code, especially when the comments are coming from an intern. On Slashdot, one anonymous user had precisely that gripe. After ten years as a develo… -
Microsoft Nears $1 Billion in Virginia Data-Center Investment
The state of Virginia announced Jan. 30 that Microsoft is investing $348 million more to expand its modular data center in Mecklenberg County, bringing its total investment in the facility to nea…