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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Android WiFi Takes Blows in Tracking Class-Action Lawsuit and Tether-Wars

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

A class-action lawsuit has finally emerged from complaints against Google Android over handsets tracking customer locations. This seemed only inevitable after Apple found itself on the receiving end of its own lawsuit involving the furtive tracking of users. The differences between the …

Twitter Doesn’t Compete with Broadcast Media, It Amplifies

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The recent reports of the death of Osama bin Laden have brought up some interesting remarks about the role that social media has begun to play in the journalistic sphere. In fact, Twitter became the kindling the lit the fire behind the …

Memo Reveals How Important WiFi Location Services are for Google Android

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Location services are becoming a big part of what smartphones do for us and as a result they gather a lot of information about where we are. With the recent debacle of Apple’s iOS recording everywhere you go by pinpointing nearby WiFi …

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Amazon EC2 Crash

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Last week generated the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for the cloud and specifically Amazon’s cloud when their service crashed and took down a multitude of sites that depended on it. It’s taken a week, but Amazon has finally generated …

Zappos.com Puts Crowdsourcing where its Mouth is with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The idea behind crowdsourcing has always been taking the combined efforts of a large group and directing them towards a single task. In a lot of venues, crowdsourcing can be used for charity by taking small donations from large numbers of people, …

Hulu Plus on Xbox LIVE this Friday, First Week is Free

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Like chocolate and peanut butter, Hulu and Xbox LIVE are great tastes that will go great together and they will be together this Friday. Starting April 29th, Hulu Plus is coming to Xbox LIVE and through a promotion the opening week will …

Apple Reaches into iCloud.com; Facebook Acquires Daytum

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It’s a strange week for acquisitions involving personal data and the lives of users this week as both Facebook and Apple have generated stories about what acquisitions they’re making. On the Apple site, we’re watching from a precipice overlooking a cloud-filled vale …

News Corp Looks to Sell MySpace as Friendster Goes Extinct

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It’s the end of an era. This week Friendster announced that it’s finally giving up the ghost and will delete user photos and blog posts as it is shoved into the sepulture of old ventures. Now the owner of MySpace, News Corp, …

RIM Acquires Tungle to Round Out their Corporate Social Standing

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Research In Motion, the developer of the Blackberry, has acquired Tungle in a move today that fits well with the business-centric mobile company’s past cultural decisions. Tungle.me, which produces social-calendar software, provides a powerful interface for multiple parties to schedule events and …

Android Video Enhanced with Skyfire 4.0 Web Browser

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Android phones are in for a treat now that Skyfire 4.0 is out of the beta frying pan and into the Android Market fire. The free-to-use browser has been enhanced with eight new killer social feature that include one premium-accessible video acceleration …

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