Articles by Dice Staff
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Will the Ubuntu Phone Actually Mean Anything?
Canonical recently rolled out plans for an Ubuntu smartphone, a year after unveiling its Ubuntu-powered TV. Over the years, the company's done a great job of promoting Linux, and it shows in Ubun… -
IT Automation Evolving Thanks to New Open-Source Tools
One of the simplest ways to tell whether a data center is being well managed is to see if the individual servers have pet names. Naming a server suggests the machine has some characteristics that… -
Data Centers Will Prioritize Blocking DDoS Attacks in 2013
Data-center owners and other service providers are prioritizing investments in technology designed to prevent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, according to a new survey from Infoneti… -
What We Mean When We Talk About HTML5
HTML5 has generated a great deal of buzz lately. It’s bursting with potential as an application platform that could augment or even outright replace traditional technology stacks. Yet even with i… -
Our New Guidelines on Discussions and Comments
I’ve written in the past about the guidelines we publish to make sure conversations and comments on Dice are courteous and on-point. (You can read them here.) Many of these are obvious: be courte… -
IT Security: When Protection Becomes Prohibitive
In the business world, security is sold as a protective measure and discussed as an enabler of productivity. But what happens when security hinders work, slowly killing the business from within?… -
NVIDIA's Tegra 4 Could Reshape Mobile Gaming
NVIDIA's Tegra SoC platform has always been interesting, but with the next generation 22-nm Tegra 4 boasting six times the graphical processing power as its quad core predecessor, it's gone from… -
More on Taking the Pain Out of Code Reviews
Code reviews are one of the most valuable exercises we conduct in software engineering. They're also among the most painful. Last week, I looked at different approaches and the circumstances wher… -
5 Low Priorities for 2013 Tech Hiring
In IT, not every skillset is created equally. As technology evolves and priorities change, you'll find your tech hiring shift, too. Certain disciplines and levels of experience will rise to the t… -
Atipa Wins 3.4 Petaflop Supercomputer Contract
The Department of Energy's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory has ordered up a 3.4-petaflop supercomputer designed to replace “Chinook,” once one of the top 25 fastest supercomputers in…