Articles by Dice Staff

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  AMD Will Lay Off 15 Percent of Its Workforce

  Advanced Micro Devices will cut 15 percent of its workforce -- about 1,800 people -- by the end of the year as it struggles to deal with ever-shrinking revenues amid weak PC sales. While some emp…
• Dell Touts Active Infrastructure All-in-One Solution

  In a bid to stay competitive in the data center, Dell has announced a new standards-based, converged infrastructure offering it calls Active Infrastructure. The first pre-integrated offering in t…
• Is Juniper Up for Sale? Probably Not

  The blogosphere buzzed Oct. 18 with news that EMC might snatch up Juniper Networks. Benzinga.com reported that Juniper had hired J.P. Morgan as advisors to negotiate alternatives, including a sal…
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  Developing for Amazon's Kindle Fire

  Developing for the Kindle Fire is fundamentally the same as developing Android proper. The Kindle Fire HDs run on ICS, and the original model runs on Gingerbread. I was hoping the Kindle Fire HD…
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  Coding Interviews: The Hiring Manager's View

  Ahh, the infamous coding question. The very idea that a candidate might be asked to code during an interview caused some furor among commenters to a recent post by my colleague Dawn Kawamoto. I t…
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  Google Said to Be Readying iOS 6 Native Maps

  A set of mysterious screen shots that surfaced on Sunday are reported to belong to an alpha version of a native Google Maps app running on an iPhone 5. If the whole Apple Maps fiasco is getting y…
• Why Would Anyone Use an ARM Processor in a Datacenter?

  At the heart of the Innovator’s Dilemma is the concept that smart people can be blind to new opportunity because they have invested themselves in a current business model. New innovation infiltra…
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  Take The Annual Dice Salary Survey

  Participate in the Dice.com salary survey. We'll make it worth your while. Our annual survey profiles the landscape of tech compensation. Be part of the data set to determine if you’re making wha…
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  Games, Processing Speed Spur Resurgence of C++

  Remember all that talk about the imminent death of C++ in the mid-2000s? Morbid headlines like: C++ IS DEAD!!! and Java Sounds the Death Knell for C++? Adding to the angst were statistics that sh…
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  Google, Facebook, Apple Pay Most to Software Engineers

  Five of the top 20 companies paying the most in base pay to software engineers are brand names located in Silicon Valley: Google, Facebook, Apple, eBay and Zynga, in that order. Their pay levels…