Articles by Dice Staff

• Eating Lunch Has WHAT to do with Job Hunting?

  I am an unrepentant believer in networking, so it frustrates me when job seekers -- that would be you -- get their guard up as soon as I use the word. The problem is in the last few years, networ…
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  Mac OS X Lion Might Offer Boot to Browser

  Apple rumors are a dime a dozen but every once in a while one crops up that is too intriguing (and plausible) to ignore: Word on the street is that Mac OS X 10.7 will offer a boot to browser func…
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  Instagram's Photo-Sharing App Hits 5 Million Users with Close To 100 Million Uploads

  Instagram, a photo sharing app for iOS devices, has gotten 5 million users and 95 million uploaded photos since its inception eight months ago, says TechCrunch. These figures might fool you into…
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  Sony Ericsson's New Phone Goes A-Walking Down The Street, Singin' Do-Wop-A-Didi-Didi-Dum-Didi-Day

  Sony Ericsson's new phone -- the Mix Walkman -- is a good smartphone that does one thing that may or may not be good: You can use it for karaoke as part of a new feature, called Zappin . Here's h…
• Smart Grid Projects May - But Only May - Bring a Tech Windfall

  The Obama administration has unveiled a slew of programs and initiatives that aim to help add information technology to the power grid to make it more efficient. So far, $10 billion of public and…
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  Here's a Demo of Spiceworks, a Free Network Monitoring Service (Video)

  [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx_ZhwQBcR8&w=560&h=349] Many of you who read Dice News are probably already subscribe to Spiceworks, a free online service for network management. With 1.…
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  Acer's Revo RL100 is a Single-Minded HTPC

  Folks that live in the right parts of Asia have been able to get their hands on Acer’s clever Revo RL100 Media Center for around six months. Now what could well be described as a home theater PC…
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  Unlocked iPhone 4 Now Available In Apple's Online Store

  In a rather surprising move, Apple's begun selling an unlocked GSM iPhone 4 in its U.S. online store -- independent of carrier contracts. Available in both black and white, the unsubsidized iPhon…
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  Apple’s iMessage Apparently Caught the Carriers by Surprise, Too

  Apple is pretty good at the whole corporate secrecy thing – sure, people get snippets of information before a new product launch: a circuit board here, a case shot there; anything outsourced will…
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  Google Introduces Its Voice Search to the Desktop

  Just a week after Microsoft announced it was incorporating voice-based Bing into the Xbox 360, Google is ratcheting up its own applications with plans to add voice search to the desktop. The comp…