Articles by Dice Staff

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  States Ban Demands for Social Media Passwords

  If you’re the type of person who enjoys posting potentially career-ending comments or photos on social media sites, you’ll be happy to know several states are angling to help enable your self-sab…
• Asurion's Massive IT Hiring Plan: 500 College Grads

  Asurion has planted a proverbial "Help Wanted" sign at the Nashville-based cell phone insurer, focusing on adding 500 IT positions. Its hiring target? College grads. The company is looking for st…
• ComEd Offers Incentives to Lower Power Use

  Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), the utility company serving the Chicago area, has put in place financial incentives to help data center operators optimize power consumption. ComEd serves abo…
• Facebook Specs Water Efficiency

  [caption id="attachment_3420" align="aligncenter" width="600"] How Facebook cools its Prineville, Ore. data center. (Source: Facebook)[/caption] As part of a commitment to openness within its dat…
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  Tech Companies Care More About Balance Than You Think

  Tech companies, despite their reputations for Red Bull-fueled all-nighters, are apparently more respectful of work-life balance than most people think. MITRE, a non-profit that specializes in sci…
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  Microsoft May Be Hiring the Next-Gen Surface Team

  Microsoft could be assembling a next-generation Surface team charged with mapping out several generations of products. Since June, the company's been looking for mechanical engineers, component s…
• Micron's Trojan Horse: The SSD

  Micron plans to add PCI Express capabilities to the Virtensys appliance it acquired in January, as the company continues to push solid-state disk (SSD) drives into the data center. Ed Doller, the…
• Hewlett-Packard Takes EDS Hit

  Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman isn’t exactly taking a summer vacation. Instead, she’s doing some late spring-cleaning. This week, financial firm UBS very publicly argued that HP coul…
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  Logitech’s New HD Cam Lets You Skype Through Your TV

  Logitech's new TV Cam HD is designed to bring Skype to the living room. The device is not a simple webcam. It’s a standalone that sits atop a regular television and connects to the screen through…
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  How to Use Stack Ranking to Your Advantage [DiceTV]

  [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fC7MJlB-Os&w=560&h=315&wmode=window&h=315] Most people hate the use of stack ranking in performance reviews. But since an estimated 75 percent of companie…