Articles by Dice Staff

• Equinix to Sell 16 Data Centers

  Equinix said Tuesday that it plans to sell 16 data centers across the country for $65 million. The sites Equinix intends to keep or sell can be seen as the company’s “what’s hot and what’s not” l…
• Real-Time Analytics on the Mainframe Could Save Billions of Dollars

  [caption id="attachment_4121" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Mainframes could help IT departments actually streamline their infrastructure.[/caption] Historically, business intelligence has bee…
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  Apple Announces iPhone 5 Event With Sly Invitation

  How good is your eyesight? Better be close to 20/20 to catch Apple's sly iPhone 5 event announcement. Apple, which sent out invitations Tuesday to its upcoming Sept. 12 event, signaled the topic…
• Salesforce to Open Office in Portland, Hire 200 in Chicago

  Salesforce.com will boost hiring in Chicago by 200 jobs and reportedly will add "hundreds" of jobs in the next several months as it opens an outpost near Portland, Ore. In Chicago, Salesforce wil…
• Why Facebook Needs To Build A Superior Android App

  Facebook released a major update to its iOS app last month, transforming the slow and stress-inducing app into a snappy, decent one. I've always wondered why the world's largest social network, w…
• AMCC Readies ARM Server-on-a-Chip

  [caption id="attachment_4076" align="aligncenter" width="613"] A diagram of the X-Gene platform, which combines four dual-core 64-bit ARM v8 chips.[/caption] Executives at Applied Micro Circuits…
• Software Testing's Undervalued Role in IT Security

  Matt Heusser's report on this summer's Conference for the Association for Software Testing (CAST) is worth a careful read. Don't think that you as a security professional have much to do with sof…
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  Using Twitter to Land a Tech Job at Expedia

  Online travel site Expedia wants to hire 240 technology professionals ranging from engineers to a sizable slug of information technology specialists. And more and more, managers there are finding…
• How to Use Your Smartphone For Big Screen Demos

  I wanted to display the screen of my Galaxy I smart phone on my Linux notebook and a quick search of the Web turned up the droid VNC server as a solution. The droid VNC server allows users to dem…
• How Target Uses Social and Mobile to Hire in IT

  Target is turning to a social and mobile recruiting campaign to reach as many IT pros as possible. Now seeking to fill 165 job openings in its IT department, the retailer figures it makes sense t…