Articles by Dice Staff
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Consumerization Continues to Baffle IT
The "consumerization of IT" continues to spread, giving IT departments fits. The unavoidable trend is most recently highlighted in an IDC/Unisys survey that queried both users and IT pros. The bi… -
FOWA: Discovering New Opportunities in NING Communities
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-sVPihKxmE&w=560&h=349] At the Future of Web Apps conference in Las Vegas, I spoke with Jonathan Hull of NING about how users are connecting and providing… -
Update: Turmoil at RIM, Layoffs at Cisco
What Will Become of BlackBerry? Inside Research In Motion, reports say cockiness, paranoia and heated arguments among the executive team are clouding a coherent vision of the future. New carrier… -
San Diego's Looking for Engineers, IT Professionals
San Diego has about 8,000 job openings in engineering and IT. Some are for local businesses, others for larger, national firms, and recently multinational companies have been poking around, much… -
VMWare's Cloud Strategy Is Both Good and Bad for Customers
VMWare's recent product announcements appear to focus the company on becoming what the New York Times calls "the Microsoft of Cloud computing." Already virtualization's 800-pund gorilla, VMWare's… -
Boston Pulse: Some Argue for Getting Rid of Non-Competes
Rising Support of Getting Rid of Tough Non-Competes: The Boston Globe's Scott Kirsner says forcing employees to sign stringent non-competes can stifle any city’s tech sector. Because talented, sm… -
Why Job Hopping Now Can Hurt Your Job Prospects Later
A few years ago I saw a resume for a candidate who had no more than two years or so at any one job. That's usually a red flag -- a high enough red flag to make me drop the candidate from the list… -
HTC's New 'Status' Offers One-Touch Sharing to Facebook
Best Buy's gearing up to launch an HTC phone that includes a dedicated Facebook share button, making it the first smartphone so closely intergrated with the mother of all social networks. The pho… -
How The Elusiveness of Technology Can Put You at Risk
Just recently, I read a survey that said that up to a third of iPhone 4 users think their phone is a 4G device. The numbers aren't quite as high for Android and Blackberry devices, but they're st… -
FOWA: How Much Should You Spend Marketing Your Startup?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY3NccIYWuI&w=560&h=349] Don’t waste your time and money on social media, says Mike McDerment, CEO and Co-founder of Freshbooks, the online invoicing servi…