Articles by Dice Staff

• Tattoo Preventing You from Landing a Job?

  You might love the tattoo of an anaconda wrapped around your arm. But employers might think otherwise, even in the casual blue jean, t-shirt clad environment of an IT campus. Which may have somet…
• Thunderbolt Finally Arrives for Non-Apple Technology

  Intel’s finally installing a Thunderbolt port in a non-Apple motherboard. That may signal a few more Thunderbolt devices may be headed to market. I hope so. Right now, Asus and MSI both have Thun…
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  Microsoft Protects Copyrights With Google Transparency

  Google's Transparency Report is a great tool for analyzing how many URL removal requests the search giant is processing. The weekly number of URLs removed reached about 285,000 the week of May 14…
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  Apple Hints At New iPhone, Siri, TV Features

  Apple CEO Tim Cook dangled a few morsels of information about the company's iPhone, iPad, TV and Siri product plans Tuesday. His tidbits will undoubtedly whet the appetite of any iOS developer he…
• CIOs Value IT Professionals' Soft Skills

  CIOs are increasingly seeking workers who not only possess technical skills -- but soft skills, as well. Driving this need is the dilemma of melding a company’s business goals with emerging techn…
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  Sony May Announce a PS3 Cloud Partnership at E3

  E3 is just around the corner but this year we doubt that either Sony or Microsoft will lift the lid on a new gaming console. That doesn’t mean you won’t hear anything from them, though. One rumor…
• SAP HANA May Be a Faster Way into Big Data Development

  App developers looking to move into Big Data would be wise to get themselves up to speed on SAP HANA, even as they slog their way through learning Hadoop. Maybe I should clarify. Chances are you…
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  Video Game Companies Turn to Crowdsourcing

  Video game companies are increasingly finding that large numbers of fans are willing to donate a few bucks in order to see a game they want developed. And sometimes those few bucks add up to big…
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  How Much to Pay Tech Pros with Michael Schrage

  After speaking on a panel about trying to find the best tech talent, I chatted with research fellow, Michael Schrage of MIT. Schrage had a very passionate response about giving money to employees…
• Cloudy Future for Data Backup and Recovery

  More and more, organizations are looking to the cloud as the ultimate place for data backup and recovery. This approach can reduce the need for provisioning local storage, sparing IT pros some co…