Articles by Dice Staff
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Breeding a Company Culture that Attracts Top Talent
Rackspace is one of those young companies, like Google, Facebook, Zynga, and Zappos that has a culture of fun. It’s a great talent attractor. At the Talent Net Live conference at SXSW, I asked Mi… -
Google-Motorola Mobility Job Cuts Here, Not There
Google's $12.5 billion Motorola Mobility buyout closed today, raising the specter of potential layoffs. Here's where potential Motorola IT jobs may be at risk and where others may be sitting on m… -
7 Tips for Making the Most of LibreOffice Impress
LibreOffice, a successor to the OpenOffice.org project, is a full-featured set of productivity applications, much like Microsoft Office. I use LibreOffice Impress, which is similar to PowerPoint,… -
GoPro Unveils Dive Camera Housing
Dive photographers face a dilemma when weighing the cost-benefit of protecting expensive cameras. Do you pony up more than the price of your DSLR for a housing that will let you take better photo… -
Game Players Increasingly Seek Niche Titles
The next generation of online games may not be about strategies or farming, unless you're thinking of strategies or farming that apply to narrow audiences. Organic farming, maybe. Citing publishe… -
Microsoft Opens So.cl, Its Version of a Social Network
Microsoft's officially opened So.cl, which it calls a social network for everybody. But it's done so quietly: I tried to find an official statement and ended up with nothing. Announced last year… -
Mobile Agile Development: Nine Winning Rules
Developers often complain that their project development environments aren’t “agile” enough. Sadly, they fell more under the “waterfall” methodology, which meant projects simply were taking too l… -
MaKey MaKey: Replace Your Touch Screen With Bananas
Computers and bananas, bananas and computers. If your dream is to use bananas to control your computer, you're in luck. Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum, both final-year Ph.D. students at the MIT Me… -
Talent42: The Tech Talent Shortage is Real
Yes, the technology talent shortage is real. Why is it happening and what can you do? At Talent42: Tech Recruiting Excellence Conference, spend June 13-14 in Seattle with colleagues, experts and… -
How to Fix Resource Issues on a Project Team
During my entire project management career, it's always been an interesting challenge to create the right path for escalating a resource issue. I've read all kinds of books and have had the right…