Articles by Dice Staff

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  D.C. Web Startups Need Open Source, Product Skills

  Washington, D.C., area tech startups can't find the people they need to create new products and services. Many of the reasons will sound familiar to employers in other areas of the country: too f…
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  iPhone Pocket Geiger Counters Are Hot. No Cool...

  The Pocket Geiger and Pokega Type 2 are two relatively inexpensive add-on devices that allow your iPhone to act as a Geiger counter. The Pocket Geiger, which is housed in a “Frisk” mint box, is o…
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  Github Hacker Spotlights Huge Security Flaw

  Github's been hacked. VentureBeat's Ben Popper writes: Github, the service that many professional programmers use to store their work and collaborate on coding, was hacked over the weekend. A you…
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  Ikea-Inspired Home Makes its Portlandia Debut

  Ikea was said to be getting into the home-building business by previewing an "Aktiv" model at the Portland Home & Garden Show. Now, alas, The Wall Street Journal says it's not true. By way of exp…
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  EU Court Asked to Rule on Legality of ACTA

  After protests across Europe and other parts of the world, signatories to ACTA may be in retreat. After Germany balked, ratification efforts have been suspended in Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, the…
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  Toshiba to Release New Excite Tablet

  Toshiba confirmed this week that they will release the Excite 10 LE tablet on March 6 at a price of $529. This just happens to be one day ahead of Apple's iPad 3 announcement. Toshiba says the Ex…
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  Cybersecurity: How to be Truly Great

  Security people, really good ones, are hard to find. In the U.S, there are maybe a dozen true recognized experts—those with the right technical background, practical experience and mindset to pra…
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  Android Apps Can Share Photos Without Permission

  Android apps, it turns out, can not only access, but also publicly share, your photos without your permission. The New York Times followed up on its story earlier this week that apps on Apple dev…
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  Nokia Pushes New Tools for App Developers

  Nokia's pushing to get more developers working on apps for its phones. At this week's Mobile World Congress, Stephen Elop, Nokia's president and CEO, told a keynote audience that the company's "c…
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  Nokia Shows Off King of Camera Phones

  Nokia has introduced a revolutionary camera phone with a 41-megapixel camera. Yes, forty-one, no typo here. "Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything," St…