Articles by Dice Staff

• 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…
• Tech Companies Favor Contract-To-Hire Workers- Try Before You Buy

  It's amazing the things you learn when you sit next to a sales team. For several years, I worked at a company where my desk was next to them. They had a really interesting sales technique called…
• IBM, Worried About Security, Bans Siri and Dropbox

  IBM's policy of allowing employees to bring their own devices to work and use them to access internal networks is causing some misgivings. Specifically, it's 5,000-person IT staff is getting ants…
• Uppidy App Helps Employers Keep an Eye on You

  Here's another reason to worry about what your employer can learn about you. Uppidy, a startup based in the Washington, D.C., area, has launched a product that backs up your SMS messages to the c…
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  Catch A Thief, Be A Thief

  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAyrdJ2qfIo&w=560&h=349] GroupOn's Aaron Bedra, a senior software engineer, wants to unleash developers' inner hacker when they're building secure Web site…