Articles by Dice Staff

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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…
• Data Center Players Face a Growing Storm

  Last lines from The Terminator: Sarah Connor: What did he just say? Gas Station Attendant: He said there's a storm coming in. Sarah Connor: [sighs] I know. There’s one problem with clouds: they’r…
• App-Athy: Why I Deleted Foursquare

  A few weeks ago, I wrote about the explosion of interest in “Draw Something,” the Pictionary-style iPhone/Android app from OMGPop that broke an array of records – fastest to hit number one, most…
• Google Chrome Passes IE as Most Popular Browser

  Google Chrome's now the world's most popular Web browser, for now, anyway. During the week of May 14, Chrome was used for more traffic than Internet Explorer. It's the the first time that's happe…