Articles by Dice Staff

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  AMD Said Planning To Cut 30 Percent of Its Workforce

  AMD is reportedly preparing to cut 2,200 to 3,300 employees, or 20 to 30 percent of its total workforce of 11,000. The rumor machine started up last week when the company revealed that its quarte…
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  Can Microsoft's Infusion Give Nook a Chance?

  Microsoft is investing $300 million in a partnership with Barnes & Noble that will develop digital reading products. The Nook Media venture was first announced in April under the name NewCo. The…
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  Oracle Touts VDI That Goes Beyond Windows

  [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYcngFIH5Lk&wmode=window&h=315&w=640&h=360] Oracle's joining the fray of the many providers offering virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions. At VMw…
• Symphony of Self-Destruction: Strengthening Security With a Red Team

  According to Rafal Los, Security Strategist for HP Software, policy is a poor substitute preparation. Organizations across the globe have implemented technical defenses, authored policies, develo…
• McAfee Launches Data Center Security Suites

  McAfee said Oct. 15 that it has released four new security solutions for the data center: database monitoring, blacklisting support, application whitelisting, and optimized virtualization support…
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  Convincing Employers Your Online Degree is a Strength

  By Lauren Bailey Online education has been around for a while, slowly gaining respectability. In the last year or so, their credibility has gotten something of a push when schools like MIT, Stanf…
• Flight Attendants Get Free Wifi. Can We?

  American Airlines will hand out 17,000 Samsung Galaxy Note devices to flight attendants to record meal and beverage preferences and access customer information as needed -- all while in flight. B…
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  PayPal Plans to Cut 400 in Product and Tech Groups

  Facing competition from established players like Google Checkout and Bitcoin as well as startups like Stripe, PayPal plans to lay off up to 400 employees. The cuts, which equal about 3 percent of…
• ARM CoreLink Aims to Accelerate Data Center

  Chip designer ARM has whipped the curtain back from its CoreLink CCN-504, a low-power cache-coherent network can deliver a terabit of bandwidth per second via a high-speed interface. That could h…
• Google's Web Optimization Tool Finally Finished

  [caption id="attachment_5163" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google's "Waterfall" graph demonstrating the various elements of a Webpage load.[/caption] Google has moved its mod_pagespeed module…