Articles by Dice Staff

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  IBM Sees Layoffs, Salesforce Cancels Office Plans

  DICE NEWS ROUNDUP: IBM Layoffs Are Coming, But How Many? What IBM is calling a “rebalancing” is actually a flurry of layoffs, but it remains unclear exactly how many people are being let go and f…
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  Azavea Game Could Save Your Life

  Azavea has developed a Web app and two Web applications for the University of Pennsylvania’s MyHeartMap Challenge. The contest combines crowdsourcing and geospatial analysis (GIS) software to loc…
• Should You "Try and Buy" Your Way into a Job?

  I spent some time working in enterprise storage (that's a rockin' industry, let me tell you!). We sold large systems typically costing hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. Our potential cus…
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  Job Tips for Software Engineers

  It's official: you love being a software engineer, and you'd like that to continue. There's just one small problem: you need a (new) job. The good news is that the market for software engineers i…
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  Bring Back the Engineering Magic

  Many of us became software engineers because we love to write code. We love the challenge and the puzzle of it. We love that feeling of bending 1s and 0s to our will. And then we get a job. It's…
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  Windows 8 Tablet Won't Replace Your PC

  Windows 8, on the surface, is a dream come true to many people. For the first time ever, Microsoft has created an operating system that will work well on a tablet. The Metro interface and apps bu…
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  Google Play is Better than iCloud

  Google's Play Store is an exciting new advancement, even though it seems a lot like Apple's iCloud. It marks the unification of several Google services: Android Market, Google Music, Google Books…
• Microsoft Hires FTC Attorney, More People Moves

  Randall Long, a former senior Federal Trade Commission attorney, has been hired by Microsoft as director of regulatory affairs in Washington, D.C. Long, a deputy assistant director in the FTC's B…
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  SXSW: How to Survive Five Crazy Days

  SXSW Interactive starts Friday, bringing with it panels, parties, demos, parties, speakers, and parties. If you're going, you have to plan, rest, and possibly drink a lot of Red Bull. Our friend…
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  Apple's New iPad Has Retina Display, A5X, 4G LTE

  Apple has unveiled a powerful new iPad that features a 2048 x 1536 retina display, an A5X quad core chip, 4G LTE and the same price points as the previous version: $499 at the low end, $829 at th…