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

Sony Sets Kazuo Hirai as Possible CEO Successor to Howard Stringer

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Currently bearing the distinction of being the President of Sony Computer Entertainment—Sony’s videogame hardware arm that brought us the PlayStation—Kazuo “Kaz” Hirai (平井一夫) may be looking forward to stranger pastures as he’s been tapped as the likely successor of Sony’s Chief …

Clash of the Titans: The Cloud Climbing Mount Olympus

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

The cloud has been changing the very face of computer technology and it’s largely been innovated by the newcomers with the old, faithful behemoths of the industry moving slowly but inexorably in their wake. In an article published at Bloomberg Buisnessweek, “The …

Kinect Lands Spot in the Pages of the Guinness Book of World Records

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Microsoft’s peripheral for the Xbox 360 has been dubbed the Fastest-Selling Consumer Electronics Device by the Guinness Book of World Records. After their explosively popular debut that left pretty much every other similar peripheral in the dust, this could be considered the …

Fusion-io Preps for IPO; Though Not Quite Ripe, Facebook Already a Data-Center Customer

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

As big-time innovators in solid-state storage as it combines with distributed storage models, Fusion-io has been pushing the cloud-envelope on multiple fronts. Since their emergence into the scene as a start-up in 2006, they’ve inducted the Woz as their chief scientist and …

Stack Overflow Injects $12 Million, Mutates Into Stack Exchange

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

The extremely popular questions-and-answers site, Stack Overflow, has just announced that they’ve finished a Series B funding round netting $6 million. This comes after an initial round of $6 million during May of last year. Commentary on this round of funding comes …

Craigconnects: The Power of Crowdsourcing and Social Media Meets Nonprofits

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Craig Newmark—better known to the Internet at large as Craig of Craigslist—would like your attention and energy. He’s starting a social-media philanthropy venture to demonstrate and guide his efforts towards buttressing nonprofit organizations that he sees worthy of praise and attention by …

Adobe Meets Apple Head On with HTML5, Releases Flash Converter

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Apple has been at war with Flash for some time now—in fact, it’s persona non grata on iOS devices in lieu of hardware-accelerated, Johnny-come-lately HTML5. As a result, Adobe’s Flash gets left in the dark when it comes to iPod Touch, iPads, …

Microsoft’s Defense for Nokia Deal Could Hurt Bottom Line

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

The news is rolling in about a gigantic exchange of money from Microsoft to Nokia as part of the newly minted deal between the two corporations that would spread the Windows Phone 7 operating system far and wide. Two sources with knowledge …

Google Purchases UK Comparison Shopping Site BeatThatQuote.com for $61.5 Million

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Adding to their long line of acquisitions, Google has just purchased the UK-based comparison shopping site BeatThatQuote.com. The purchase price has been set at £37.7 million (about $6.1 million.) The site allows consumers rate comparisons amid a multitude of financial products including …

PrimeSense Kinect Technology Makes Its Way into Fitness via MayaFit

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

We’ve seen the Microsoft Kinect become the center of a mindstorm of innovation involving gesture controls, animation, and numerous other applications in the homebrew hacker sphere—and, of course, the framework for building on top of it’s underlying technology has been released in …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Sony Sets Kazuo Hirai as Possible CEO Successor to Howard Stringer

Kinect Lands Spot in the Pages of the Guinness Book of World Records

Adobe Meets Apple Head On with HTML5, Releases Flash Converter

Microsoft’s Defense for Nokia Deal Could Hurt Bottom Line

Google Purchases UK Comparison Shopping Site BeatThatQuote.com for $61.5 Million

PrimeSense Kinect Technology Makes Its Way into Fitness via MayaFit

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