Articles by Dice Staff

• Surface and iPad, Function and Form

  An hour after Microsoft showed off its new Surface, I got a little snippy on Twitter: "If I see one more person ask if the iPad's in trouble tonight, I am going to freaking scream. One word, peop…
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  Here Are Companies Hiring Hadoop Experts

  Hadoop is quickly being deployed at virtually every company that has scads of data to be crunched. And in this rush to beef up your training to learn Hadoop, it pays to know where you can go once…
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  Microsoft Unveils Surface Tablet, Enters PC Hardware Space

  After years of speculation, Microsoft finally announced its tablet, called Surface, during an event in Los Angeles on Monday. It's quite amazing that it doesn't compare with the other tablets. In…
• Facebook Will Ask You to Confirm Your Account Via Mobile

  Facebook's decided to stand up and bulk up its security. TechCrunch reports that soon the social media giant's desktop users will be required to confirm their accounts with a mobile phone number.…
• Facebook Acquires Face.com

  Facebook continues its prowl for photo properties, snapping up face recognition company face.com. The deal is designed to bring face.com's face recognition photo tagging capabilities in-house for…
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  Insurer USAA Tops List of Best IT Places To Work

  Insurance and finance company USAA captured the No. 1 spot in Computerworld's 100 Best Places to Work In IT 2012 list, released Monday. And the best part is they're planning to fill more IT posit…
• 3 Linux Resources Worth Learning About

  Here are three items geared toward real-world, hands-on learning for Linux enthusiasts. For details on all of these, see our links below. Want to try your hand at embedded Linux Development? The…
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  Coding Portfolio Increases Odds of Job Interview

  When you're a software engineer, the resume is a tricky beast. A resume can describe the technologies you've worked with, but can't say what you were able to do with them. For example, saying: "U…
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  Facebook CTO Bret Taylor Heading Back to Startup World

  Facebook CTO Bret Taylor is reportedly gearing up to leave the social networking giant by the end of summer to launch a startup. His decision comes less than a month after Facebook's famed IPO fl…
• B.I. and Big Data Can Play Together Nicely

  [caption id="attachment_1709" align="aligncenter" width="618" caption="An example of the complexity of data analytics, in the case of eBay. From a presentation by eBay's Shalini Madan (slideshare…