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.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

FCC Broadband Test Means Better US Internet Visualization and 10,000 Free Wireless-N Routers

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Last year we saw the Federal Communications Commission finally take a long hard look at the Internet and the way access to it is sold to customers. As part of a U.S. wide test of broadband providers from the vantage of the …

Google Seals Intent by Becoming Principal Member of Near Field Communications Forum

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It may surprise people to know that Near Field Communications technology has been around since before 2004; it’s just taken this long to take hold within the mobile zeitgeist. That’s the year that the NFC Forum founding members gathered together to advance …

The Anatomy of the Kinect Algorithms Explained

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The Microsoft Kinect represents more than just a breakthrough in user-interface for video gamers as we’ve seen multiple times. It has a surprising number of applications throughout human-computer interaction. But how does it do what it does? Well, a paper has been …

FTC: Google Agrees to Comprehensive Privacy Program to Protect Customer Data

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

When Google Buzz came out, everyone expected that it was Google’s first salvo against Twitter—except for the fact that it lived entirely inside of Gmail. Perhaps they hoped it would become just-another-Social-Inbox-app; as opposed to the privacy horror that it grew into. …

Microsoft to Bring Near Field Communication to Windows Phone 7

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Noticing that they’re losing ground against Google and Apple when it comes to the implementation of Near Field Communication technology, Microsoft is thinking of bringing it to the Windows Phone 7. According to an article published in Business Week, two anonymous sources …

Ex-CEO Mark Hurd Drama Continues, Judge Rejects Shareholder Request for Hewlett-Packard Documents

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Back in November 2010, Hewlett-Packard Co. shareholder Ernesto Espinoza requested access to corporate documents with information about ex-CEO Mark Hurd’s relationship with contractor Jodie Fisher. Recently, a judge ruled that he is not entitled to those documents, according to an article in …

Firefox 4 for Android Picks HTML5 Over Flash

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Only a week ago, Mozilla released Firefox 4—after a great deal of work on betas for both the PC and Android versions—and now we’ve been graced with the Android release. The biggest feature apparent on the Android Firefox that belongs to recent …

Kinect Benefits Surgeons in Toronto via Hands Free Image Manipulation

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Medical imaging enables surgeons amazing insights into the inner workings of the body without having to cut into a person—it also permits them to be more precise when it comes time to make those cuts. As a result, imaging in the OR …

Amazon Appstore and the Test Drive Feature

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

This past week brought us the unveiling of the Amazon app store for Android apps and as it enables people to make purchases both from their smartphones and their PCs (to deliver to their smartphones) this opens up some very interesting capabilities. …

Google Teams Up With MasterCard and Citigroup to Extend Android NFC Penetration

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Looking to push forward as an innovator and bring the digital wallet to smartphones everywhere, Google Inc. has plans to team up with MasterCard and Citigroup to complete the use of Near-Field Communication for financial transactions—the technology, already embedded in Android phones …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

FCC Broadband Test Means Better US Internet Visualization and 10,000 Free Wireless-N Routers

Google Seals Intent by Becoming Principal Member of Near Field Communications Forum

The Anatomy of the Kinect Algorithms Explained

Microsoft to Bring Near Field Communication to Windows Phone 7

Ex-CEO Mark Hurd Drama Continues, Judge Rejects Shareholder Request for Hewlett-Packard Documents

Firefox 4 for Android Picks HTML5 Over Flash

Kinect Benefits Surgeons in Toronto via Hands Free Image Manipulation

Amazon Appstore and the Test Drive Feature

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