Articles by Dice Staff

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  Play Hard, Win a Gaming Scholarship

  Here's your chance to thumb your nose at all those people who've told you that playing video games - for hours - won't get you anywhere. It turns out, it may help you pay for college. Online gami…
• HP's Vertica Team is Losing Key Executives

  Hewlett-Packard's bleeding talent from Vertica, originally cast as one of the pillars of HP's Information Management business unit. Vertica's ability to analyze structured data was considered a p…
• Second Life, the Holodeck, and You

  Do you remember Second Life? It was kind of like chat on steroids -- you logged in, designed yourself an avatar, then wandered from place to place, meeting other avatars so you could interact wit…
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  How to Survive A Merger With an Apple or a Dell

  Not too long ago, small companies and their employees dreamed of an IPO. Stock options represented a significant portion of employee benefit packages, and paper millionaires bought fast cars and…
• Google Puts .lol On Wish List For New Top-Level Domains

  Google is looking to add a little humor to new top-level domains (TLDs) when they're eventually issued. That, in part, explains its .lol application prior to ICANN's deadline last week for new TL…
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  11 Cool (Mostly Free) Tech Tools to Improve Social Recruiting

  While recruiters will tell you that their work is about relationships, building and maintaining those relationships now requires social media savvy. Because social content is becoming increasingl…
• How to Do B.I. on the Cheap

  [caption id="attachment_1373" align="aligncenter" width="617" caption="YellowFin is just one of many inexpensive commercial B.I. tools."] [/caption] B.I. doesn't have to be expensive (as SlashBI…
• Getting Out of the Office to Network Doesn't Have to Suck

  It's easy for developers and freelancers -- and job seekers -- to become isolated and frustrated as they bang away on their keyboards, writing code, attending to virtual clients and tweaking cove…
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  What Electronic Arts Looks For in Job Candidates

  Electronics Arts is in hiring mode -- to the tune of 600 people, roughly 40 percent engineers. If you're headed to E3 next week, here's how you can increase the odds of becoming one of the 600. N…
• Apple Salaries: Art Director Tops Senior Engineers

  Are Apple’s salaries as attractive as its prestige? Business Insider looked through data at Glassdoor and found that salaries from Genius Bar workers all the way up to the boardroom directors, Ap…