Articles by Dice Staff
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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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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…