Articles by Dice Staff
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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… -
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… -
Is Netflix Really Bigger Than Comcast?
Netflix (NFLX) released its quarterly earnings yesterday and, while the market was somewhat underwhelmed, subscriber numbers are impressive. In fact, GigaOm declares, "Netflix Now Officially Has… -
At Microsoft, Black is the New Blue (Screen of Death)
Users of the Windows OS have all been aware of the Blue screen of Death (BSOD), an error screen which turns your desktop screen into a blue background with lots of numbers related to certain erro…