Articles by Dice Staff

• VMware Kills Despised vRAM Pricing Model

  VMware did away with its overly complex licensing model Aug. 27, eliminating its vRAM program and providing more simplified pricing based on physical processor cores. That’s good news for VMware’…
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  A Dozen Ways to Recruit on a Budget

  With a recruiting team of three and a tiny budget, Lars Schmidt (@ThisIsLars), Director of Talent Acquisition for NPR, has had to think of creative, economical ways to extend his recruiting reach…
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  Phones in Space: Android Will Ride NASA’s Nanosatellites

  NASA is embracing low-cost, commercial technology in its Small Spacecraft Technology Program, an exciting new effort that embraces rapid prototyping and uses only commercially available hardware,…
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  Bluefish is a Great Tool for Writing Clean HTML

  If you write articles, create Web pages or write Kindle ebooks, chances are that you'll need a fast, no-frills HTML editor. I've been doing all these jobs for a number of years and I think the Bl…
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  Take Advantage of the Mainframe Talent Shortage

  Mainframe developers, especially those with COBOL skills, may not get as much attention as, say, app developers -- except from a number of employers. While the development community has been dazz…
• Who Wants to Own Their Own Servers Forever?

  Owning or leasing your own onsite compute infrastructure is a given for most businesses—or at least those businesses capable of affording it. Most of us assume that will be true forever, but it w…
• Want to Transform Your iPads Into Telepresence Robots? Kinda Creepy, Kinda Cool

  I watched Star Wars and I, Robot years ago, but I never thought that a walking robot would be viable, at least not right now. Once again, I'm wrong. I’m happy to say robots are walking among us,…
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  Apple Wins in Samsung Patent Case; $1 Billion+ Damages Award

  Apple scored a major victory in its patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, receiving a favorable jury verdict that calls for $1.05 billion in damages. The jury verdict, accordin…
• Adapteva's Co-Processor May Challenge GPUs in Servers

  Adapteva this week released the company’s Epiphany-IV chip, a coprocessor that can sit alongside the main processor in a data center and dramatically accelerate its computational performance at a…
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  How Google Play's Taming Aggressive Apps and Ads

  Aggressive, non-relevant ads, along with a host of other questionable content, will soon be a thing of the past in Google Play. In an effort to tighten the reigns and eliminate rogue apps, Google…