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Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

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Carrier IQ-gate Redux: The Wolf in the Smartphone

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Over the past few weeks, there’s been something of a brouhaha brewing over the discovery of a diagnostic app embedded in almost all modern smartphones used by carriers to determine what’s gone wrong with a phone. The app is called Carrier IQ …

Critical Adobe Reader Zero-day Vulnerability Seen in the Wild

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Yesterday, researchers at the Lockheed Martin Computer Incident Response Team (CRT) and members of the Defense Security Information Exchange informed Adobe that their products were being exploited by hackers. The exploit affects all versions of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 9.x and …

Despite Setbacks Nexon Sets $1.2 billion IPO for Dec. 14

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

With the upcoming Zynga IPO—and the subsequent roller-coaster ride of scheduling, rescheduling, and then getting raked through the mud—the massively-multiplayer gaming front almost feels like it’s a little bleak but for the drama of late. So it’s with some new news that …

The Strange History of SMS as Text Messaging Turns 19

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

As communication protocols go, SMS (or Short Message Service) hails from a Nordic birthplace, the same land that brought us Nokia, the once (and hopefully future) king of mobile. The protocol has a deep past from its most nascent and infant steps …

Mars Rover Curiosity Equipped with Laser Death Ray for Science!

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

In 247 days, about the beginning of next year’s autumn, NASA’s newest robotic observer, Curiosity, will land on Martian soil. Any science fiction reader who has studied astronomy and followed humanity’s ever expanding interest in the sky and of our neighboring planets, …

Augmented Reality Chipsets from Intel Integrated by Total Immersion

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The field of augmented reality is becoming an important part of the mobile ecology. Enabling tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices to “see” and overlay reality with meta-information. Total Immersion, an outfit who write software to enable developers to take advantage of …

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