Articles by Dice Staff
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States Work Harder to Attract Game Companies
Video games, as a business, are becoming so big, with so much money attached, that states are falling all over themselves to attract the companies that produce them. PaidContent says 21 states ar… -
SXSW Survival Tips from Those Who Lived Through It
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uZQb7bcp8w&w=560&h=349] SXSW is not an easy thing to survive. So much of it happens outside of the conference center and into the wee hours of the morning… -
Federal CTO Named, People Moves at Starbucks, Niners
PEOPLE MOVES: Department of Health and Human Services chief technology officer Todd Park has been named the new federal CTO. Park has been a leading advocate of open government within the Obama A… -
SXSW: Getting Your Boss to Send You
SXSW Interactive can be as much a professional development event as a Party for Geeks. Of course, if you ask your boss to send you, he's going to focus on the "party" part. But there are good arg… -
Engineers Can Learn a Lot from.... Nurses
Nursing is far afield from software engineering -- you can't argue that. My mom's a nurse and she's far better with blood than I am though I'm far better with computers than she is. But over the… -
BlackBerry PlayBook: A Sad Affair
The BlackBerry Playbook is sad not because it sucks. Quite the contrary, actually. It's sad because the PlayBook is so affordable, with hardware components that trump all its similarly priced com… -
Toshiba Scanner Reads Objects Not Barcodes
A Toshiba scanner that has recently been demonstrated in Japan uses object recognition to identify foods at the supermarket checkout line. The technology uses a camera that compares the food that… -
Missouri Shows Impressive Tech Job Growth
Missouri employers are saying "Meet Me in St. Louis... and Kansas City!" The two Missouri cities, perhaps best known for barbecue and fried ravioli, are among the top 10 cities for technology job… -
Wikipedia Boycotts Godaddy Over SOPA
Wikipedia recently transferred all their sites from GoDaddy due to ongoing contention over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Last December, GoDaddy couldn't seem to make up its mind regarding th… -
Microsoft Blunders Keyboard and Mouse Interaction for Windows 8
Microsoft is betting the business on Windows 8, the upcoming one-size-fits-all operating system. However, while Microsoft promises the Metro UI is usable with both touch interaction and a keyboar…