Kyt Dotson
Latest from Kyt Dotson
The Microsoft-Nokia Connection Rumors Finally Become Official and it May Not be a “Bad Thing”
The announcement came down today in a joint letter between Nokia’s Stephen Elop and Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer. The letter described a comprehensive deal between the two corporations with a great deal of deep integration between Nokia’s products and the Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft software family (including Bing, Microsoft’s flagship search product.) This comes almost ...
Will We See the Rise of Robot Journalists? Reporters and a Carnegie Mellon team want to Know
In an experiment designed to use intelligent systems to write news stories an coalition of journalists and computer scientists aim to test current computing technology and human power to see if they can’t generate automated news stories. The experiment doesn’t expect to produce anything that could replace actual human reporters; but it will demonstrate the ...
Tagged Makes New Friendships with Big Data
Back in 2004, about the same time MySpace came into its popularity, Tagged began its journey. As a social network, Tagged is a social discovery network—it’s less about keeping up with friends, and more about discovering new relationships. Where sites like Facebook put people together with people they might already know, Tagged puts people together ...
HP webOS Event Underway: Announced Palm Pre 3, Veer, Touchpad
As we all may know by now, Hewlett-Packard acquired Palm last summer to the smoking tune of $1.2 billion and we’ve been looking forward to HP putting them to good use. Today, HP is holding a press conference covering just that. Mike Melanon over at ReadWriteWeb has some excellent coverage of the opening gestures of ...
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop to Team, “It’s Time to Jump From This Burning Platform”
In a brutally honest memo, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop addressed his company and employees with what might be a corporation’s version of hitting the collision alarm and cramming the tiller hard to port. In sailing school, students are often reminded of the phrase, “tiller towards trouble,” because of a particular nautical fact that the boat ...
Play Angry Birds with this Kinect Hack Provided by KinEmote
A homebrew hacker named Joel Griffin Dodd has gone and done the possible—but still amazing—and combined the smartphone phenomenon Angry Birds with the Xbox Kinect motion capture peripheral. Now you too can freely use your hands in front of a TV screen to hurl ornery ornithopters at petulant porcines. Perhaps you could get this hack ...
INSIDE Secure Opening Up Android Open NFC
INSIDE Secure, a leading provider of NFC hardware and other secure communication products for use inside smartcards, smartphones, and other mobile devices has announced that they’re launching a further abstracted API for accessing Android NFC. From the looks of it, the release is part of a marketing and value scheme in order to make their ...
Kinect Hack Allows Players to Draw their Own Controller, Represents So Much More
The Kinect tagline “You are the controller,” just took another turn for the different when a homebrew use of the device showed how the technology could recognize buttons drawn onto a piece of paper. This is the outcome of a contest run by Willow Garage—best known for their open-source Robot Operating System. The first place ...
Bought the Presses: AOL Purchases The Huffington Post for $315M
With all the Super Bowl news zinging about we thought we’d be in for the usual strange announcements and new product lines being presented through new advertising. Then AOL came along in the last minute and announced their purchase of The Huffington Post for about $315 million, most of which it turns out was in ...
The $3 Million Heritage Health Prize: Big Data Enhancing Wellness Across the World
In his presentation, Anthony Goldbloom of Kaggle called this the biggest ever data prize. Right now, they’re running a competition in cooperation with Heritage Provider Network looking for programmers to develop the next Big Data health-related algorithm for helping re-envision health care systems across the world into something that will actually promote and predict health ...
