Articles by Dice Staff

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  Toshiba's New Excite Tablets: Light, Thin, and Great Resolution

  Toshiba's unveiled three Android-powered Excite tablets that come in three display sizes: 7.7 inches, 10.1 inches and 13.3 inches. Each Excite has an elegant aluminum design on the back and a scr…
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  How to Become Batman Without Buying the Suit

  Who hasn't wanted to be a super hero? For me it's Batman -- I love the idea of brooding on a roof, even if I do live in a ranch. It hasn't been lack of Bruce Wayne's money that's kept me from bul…
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  Silicon Valley Salaries Crack Six-Figure Mark for First Time in Decade

  The Golden State is living up to its name and high tech and engineering-related professionals are cashing in. The Dice Annual Salary Survey found Silicon Valley-based tech workers received a five…
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  Wordpress Could Be The Way For You to Show Off

  Wordpress has quickly become one of the most popular blog platforms around, if not the most popular. It's currently being used by 49 percent of the top 100 blogs in the world, an increase from 32…
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  Facebook Expands Its Office in Seattle

  Facebook's Seattle office has moved to a new space to accommodate its 90 engineers and allow for more hires. The company opened the office in 2010 in order to broaden its resource pool beyond Sil…
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  Data Mining, Analysis Are Key Big Data Skills [Poll]

  Big Data was the subject of last week's snap poll, specifically the skills you think are most important to its use. The results demonstrate what we already know: This is a field just beginning to…
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  Microsoft Forms Open Source Subsidiary

  Microsoft, after a contentious history with the open source world, is coming to embrace it. The Linux Foundation recently ranked the Redmond software maker No. 17 among its Top 20 contributors to…
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  Data Center 'Pods' Allow Engineers to Sleep Onsite

  The 2012 Summer Olympics is sure to impact data center performance in London because of exceptionally high traffic. What's an operations staff to do? Sleep with the servers. That's what the Inter…
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  Big Data Implementation Requires Prepping Now

  Just days after EMC's Jeetu Patel talked to me about how data analysis skills will become part of every business unit, it's interesting to read that Google is beefing up the ranks of data scienti…
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  HP Cloud Service Aims at Developers, Software Vendors

  Hewlett-Packard says it will offer HP Cloud Services beginning May 10. A long time coming, it's the company's first generation of public cloud infrastructure, platform services and cloud solution…