Articles by Dice Staff

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  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…
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  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…
• Major Smartphone Vulnerability In Baseband

  Smartphone security is headed for an “apocalypse,” since a major vulnerability with smartphone baseband processors has gone unheeded, warns Dan Auerbach, a staff technologist at the Electronics F…
• Jacksonville, Columbus are Promising Tech Job Markets

  Jacksonville, Fla., and Columbus, Ohio, are two of America’s hidden hotbeds of technology. Forbes measured employment growth in the sectors most identified with the high tech economy (including s…
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  Yahoo's Levinsohn Tamps Down Commerce Unit

  Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn is getting down to business now that the brouhaha over predecessor Scott Thompson's resume shenanigans have quieted down (at least for now. I'll bet money things will get…
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  Jason Calacanis On How He Pivoted Mahalo [Video]

  Jason Calacanis started a human search-powered company called Mahalo. He says it achieved a level of respectable success with 15 million unique visitors a month and $500,000 in monthly revenue, b…
• Mobile Gamers Play To Kill Time [Infographic]

  Mobile game developers, I've got some good news and some bad news. Slightly more than a third of your players think your games are fun. About another third are playing for the challenge, to conne…
• An Operating System By Any Other Name

  My, how times have changed. When I first began working on computers, CP/M was the rage and PC-DOS was in existence but widely unknown. I had to broker a deal with my math teacher in high school (…
• Game Developers Find Treasure in GameStop Earnings

  Game developers looking to strike it rich with their apps would be wise to take a look at GameStop's first quarter financial results. The game retailer posted a 12 percent drop in its first quart…