Articles by Dice Staff

• Dell, Calxeda Develop Second ARM Server

  [caption id="attachment_5460" align="alignleft" width="599"] A Calxeda server by Penguin Computing.[/caption] Dell announced Oct. 24 that it had taken the next step into the low-power server mark…
• New Team Member, New Team Dynamics

  So you have a new team member. Or, you are a new team member. It's the first day and we're all gonna get things kicked off on the right foot. But how? In one place I worked, the first week was sp…
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  Using The Remote Desktop Viewer Under Ubuntu

  Say you want to remotely log into a desktop on another machine. One way to do it is by using an approach called VNC. It stands for "virtual network computing" and has been around for quite a whil…
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  Favi SmartStick Turns Your HDTV into a Smart TV

  If you are thinking of buying a Smart TV, maybe you should pause to reconsider. The guys from Favi will soon release a smart stick that could turn almost make your existing TV smart, without near…
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  RackSpace Takes on Amazon with Block Storage

  RackSpace announced Oct. 24 that it has begun delivering Cloud Block Storage powered by the OpenStack protocol. As the name suggests, the solution adds blocks of storage to RackSpace’s Cloud Serv…
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  Pressured Zynga to Cut 5% of Its Workforce

  Zynga will cut 5 percent of its workforce as it begins a major restructuring as it contends with weak results from its Web games and delayed launches of new titles. Facing weak results from its W…
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  Run Linux On Your Android Phone

  What can you do with Linux on your Android phone? With LinuxonAndroid and the Complete Linux Installer app, you can find out. First, you'll need a rooted phone. Mine is an antique, first generati…
• Coping with Too Much Data: How Boeing, Nike and Others Did It

  [caption id="attachment_5397" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Nike is just one company that benefited from creating a unified data architecture.[/caption] Businesses wring their hands over havin…
• Bulk of Data Center Traffic Internal: Cisco

  Internal workloads, and not individual consumers, will continue to produce the vast majority of data traffic within the data center. That’s according to Cisco’s Global Cloud Index released Oct. 2…
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  SoftBank Will Make Life Interesting for Sprint's Employees

  Masayoshi Son is back in town. As the second richest man in Japan, 55-year-old Son-San, as he is often called, is an interesting character with a unique business style that I’ve seen up close. No…