Articles by Dice Staff
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Rumors Suggest New Macbook Pro Will Have a Changed Design
Recently rumors have been escalating about the new Macbook Pro, suggesting it will feature an entirely new case design. According to 9to5mac, MacRumors actually pointed to a February iLounge arti… -
Updated: Sony Online Down as PSN Comes Back Up
Updated with news of Sony Online Entertainment's shutdown. Sony shut down its online-gaming network after a hacker attack, even as the company tries to get its PlayStation Network back online. So… -
E-Books Are Slamming Paper Books So Hard It Hurts
E-media aficionados have predicted for years that devices like Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook and multipurpose devices like the iPad will push book publishers deeper and deeper into quick… -
WitStream: A Channel of Snark for Live Events
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjD3xD27qOc&w=560&h=349] The best part of watching The Oscars on TV is hanging with your friends and making obnoxious comments. Realizing that this layer o… -
First Word on Bin Laden Came Through Twitter
It was a tweet that first got out the word that Osama bin Laden had been killed: That honor goes to an IT consultant who identifies himself as Sohaib Athar under the Twitter handle "ReallyVirtual… -
New Fiber Optics Milestone: 100 Terabits/Sec
The highest average internet speed at the time of this writing -- 30.84 Mbps in South Korea, according to Ookla's Net Index. The actual average, without being diluted by generally slower wireless… -
BlackBerry PlayBook: A Symptom of Changing Times
The arrival of the BlackBerry PlayBook earlier this month has caused much consternation among the CIOs, IT experts and BlackBerry users who've been eagerly awaiting it. All of a sudden everyone's… -
TomTom Sells GPS Data to Governments
You'd almost think someone's declared this Privacy Awareness Week. TomTom says it sold user data collected from drivers to the Dutch police so they could set up speed traps. The data was aggregat… -
Tech Support is Trying to Do Too Much with Too Little
Some good news if you're looking for a job in tech support: Departments are understaffed and juggling too many requests, in turn leading to long wait times for people who are sure they have bette… -
Tech Interviews: How to Answer Questions from Someone Who Doesn't Know Tech
If you really understand technology, you're bound to run into someone in an interview who doesn't understand IT as well as you do. That person will ask their technical questions and disagree with…