Articles by Dice Staff
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Texas Instruments Sees ARM Chips as Data Center Coprocessors
Texas Instruments has its eye on the cloud—specifically ARM-based servers designed for cloud applications. At the Electronica 2012 show in Germany, TI unveiled six new multicore systems-on-a-chip… -
Do Some Tech Jobs Really Pay $12 an Hour? Yes
Horror stories of low-ball offers abound on the Dice message boards, though we have to admit we think some smack of embellished truths. But after some investigation we found that, indeed, there a… -
Navy SEALs Disciplined for Video Game Work
Seven U.S. Navy SEALs received letters of reprimand and had their salaries reduced for two months for spending two days as paid consultants on Electronic Arts' single shooter game Medal of Honor:… -
Intel Formally Launches Xeon Phi Coprocessors
Intel’s Xeon Phi co-processor, designed to optimize computing capability in the data center, has reached its general availability milestone. Wait, you might be thinking: hasn’t Intel already anno… -
Amazon Opens Data Centers Down Under
Amazon announced Nov. 13 that it has taken its AWS services to Australia, adding a ninth region to its seemingly ever-expanding cloud-computing platform. The new Sydney region will serve the Asia… -
Big Data Meetup Crunches Numbers In a New Way
Big data is all about numbers, right? Wrong. If you follow the logic of Tom Jacobs, organizer of the Big Data Analytics: Mobile, Social and Web meetup in Silicon Valley, there are trends and topi… -
After Sandy, Thinking About Offsite Backup
Data backup, archiving and recovery aren’t exactly sexy. They are mundane tasks that IT doesn’t get too excited about. But then along comes a once-in-a-decade event like Superstorm Sandy, and sud… -
How to Get Started as an App Developer
Apple's highly anticipated iPad Mini with its 7.9-inch screen is going head to head with Google's Nexus 7. Apple also says that it has sold 100 million iPads and that customers have downloaded 35… -
Windows Leader Sinofsky Exits Microsoft
Steven Sinofsky, one of the brightest minds behind Microsoft's Windows, will leave the company after 23 years. Julie Larson-Green, who's been with Microsoft since 1993, will takeover his position… -
Why Hams Make Great Mobile Developers
Hurricane Sandy knocked out approximately one fourth of all cell sites across ten states, according to the Washington Post. What's more, nearly the same amount of cable customers lost their servi…