Articles by Dice Staff
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GoDaddy Reverses Itself on SOPA
Even if the vote for SOPA has been postponed to January, every day that passes the bill seems to lose more support. GoDaddy initially supported the bill, but yesterday reversed itself. Why? It co… -
GoDaddy Drops Support for SOPA
UPDATE: GoDaddy, the largest domain name registrar in the world, has reversed itself and no longer supports the SOPA bill. Earlier, the company's backing of the bill sparked anger among customers… -
Amazon Plans To Open Boston Office In February
Amazon's hurrying to set up an office near Boston that could be home to up to 150 people, many of them software engineers. The company's zeroing in on the Kendall Square area of Cambridge, quietl… -
IT Grads See Promising Job Market
While the employment outlook continues to look cloudy for many job seekers in 2012, when it comes to technology jobs, recent IT college graduates might be in luck. Recruiters, industry analysts,… -
What's in a Title?
What is in a title? That depends. Perhaps much; your title is industry standard and perfectly describes your area of responsibility. Perhaps little; an industry standard that is insufficient to d… -
Facebook Threatens to Sue (Israel's) Mark Zuckerberg
This is a classic case of a publicity stunt gone too far. An Israeli entrepreneur, formerly known as Rotem Guez, operates an online business by the name of LikeStore, which provides services to b… -
Gamification in the Real World: VW's Experiment With Fun
Remember Big, the movie with Tom Hanks about a kid who grows into an adult's body but keeps his 12-year-old mind? There's a great scene where he and Robert Loggia, playing the CEO of a toy compan… -
Mozilla and Google Search Deal Renewed
Mozilla Firefox's marriage to Google will go on--for at least three more years. The first deal between Mozilla and Google was signed in 2006 when the world's biggest Web search engine agreed to i… -
Would You Try to Sign In With a Picture Password?
Microsoft has been publishing information about some of their projects on their blog as it develops Windows 8. The latest: "Signing in with a picture password." Many laptops have implemented simi… -
BlackBerry's Model Madness
Every time you stop by the drug store to pick up some toothpaste, you face the paradox of choice, a phenomenon first described by psychologist Barry Schwartz. Schwartz believes that when consumer…