Articles by Dice Staff

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  Letting Students Pass Digital Notes in School and Church

  [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMXse2EEvDA&w=560&h=349] How much has school and church changed in the digital age? At CIO Boot Camp at Interop in Las Vegas, I spoke with Dr. Rob Rennie,…
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  Village Takes Snapdeal's Name After the Company Donates Pumps

  Villagers in the Indian village of Snapdeal.com Nagar (formerly Shiv Nagar) used to walk over three kilometers for something most people took for granted: clean water. They no longer have to, tha…
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  'Beautiful People' Says It Was Hacked, No One Believes Them

  Sometimes you just can't win. First, the dating site BeautifulPeople.com gets hacked, and the result is the incursion of 30,000 ordinary folks. Then, apparently, the site had to apologize for kic…
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  Columbia's 'Omni-Freeze' Sportswear Will Take Away Your Sweaty Feelings of Superiority

  Since tomorrow's the first day of summer, here's a timely item: Columbia, makers of smart, techy sportswear, plans to launch Omni-Freeze, clothes that cool you using a combination of specially de…
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  Wal-Mart is Now Selling Roku XD for $79

  Perhaps you remember that a couple months ago Roku was available at Best Buy. Now, it’s available at all Wal-Mart stores across the country. Consumers were aware that the retailing giant was goin…
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  From Punch Cards to Petabytes: IBM at 100

  Happy birthday to IBM, which celebrated its 100th anniversary this week. It's been quite a ride for a company that started out as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company before changing to its…
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  E3: Games or Girls? Booth Babes Tell Us Why People Stop By to Visit

  [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OmV0w9dmeU&w=560&h=349] If you've been to E3, you know about the Booth Babes. (Don't yell at me. I didn't come up with the term.) These are the always you…
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  Google’s Vint Cerf on Multimedia Conversation Modes

  [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHcNokqw3iY&w=560&h=349] In an engaging roundtable dialogue at InterOp, Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, answered questions, bouncing from to…
• 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…