Articles by Dice Staff

• SAP Acquires Ariba For Cloud

  Enterprise behemoth SAP AG announced Tuesday it's acquiring cloud-based business commerce company Ariba, in a deal valued at $4.3 billion. Under the deal, SAP plans to operate Ariba as an indepen…
• Kansas Schools Streamline Path to Avionics Degrees

  Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kan., is bulking up its programs for students interested in pursuing avionics degrees. The college has signed an agreement with Kansas State Uni…
• Security: User-Generated Content Best Practices

  MilitarySingles.com's treasure trove of user passwords recently came under attack by hackers, who devised a new twist in exploiting a weakness in the upload filter for user-generated content. Sec…
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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…
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  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…
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  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…
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  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…