Articles by Dice Staff

• 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…
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  Facebook Hiring Machine To Ramp Post IPO?

  Missed out on snaring a Facebook job before its IPO? Too bad, too sad. But even if you're not among a quarter of Facebook's workforce that reportedly stands to become millionaires after its IPO o…
• AMD Trinity Ready To Face Intel's Ivy Bridge

  Advanced Micro Devices is competing with Intel head-on with the release of its new accelerated processing units, called Trinity. While Intel Ivy Bridge processors use 22- nanometer technology, AM…
• 5 Fast Android Network Analysis Tools

  Nobody wants to wait around for a laptop to boot up, just so you can scan for WiFi access points. Smart phones and tablets, with their powerful, instant-on capabilities, have revolutionized mobil…
• R, Octave, and Python: Which Suits Your Analysis Needs?

  Some businesses want all the benefits of a top-shelf data analysis package, but lack the budget to purchase one from SAS Institute, MathWorks, or another established, proprietary vendor. However,…
• Project Management A Case of Common Sense? Not

  A few days ago, I overheard another project manager say: "project management is easy - it's just common sense." I cringed a bit when I heard this. Is that all it is? Really? I've thought about th…
• Set Software Engineering Contractor Rates Right

  Software engineers make a pretty good living, when working for an employer, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Salaried computer programmers earn about $34.92 per hour on average. That'…
• Kodak Had Nuclear Reactor; Forgot to Tell City

  Kodak may be a sinking ship, but apparently it's a nuclear sinking ship. Or was. For more than 30 years the company kept a small reactor running in its basement in Rochester, N.Y., used for resea…