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

Egypt’s Social Future: Democracy in Preparation

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Today we got the news that President Mubarak has finally ended his 30-year reign over the Egyptian people after over two-weeks of stiff protests from citizens and heavy pressure from the rest of the world. During the protest and social siege we …

The Microsoft-Nokia Connection Rumors Finally Become Official and it May Not be a “Bad Thing”

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

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 …

Will We See the Rise of Robot Journalists? Reporters and a Carnegie Mellon team want to Know

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

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 …

Tagged Makes New Friendships with Big Data

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

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 …

HP webOS Event Underway: Announced Palm Pre 3, Veer, Touchpad

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

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 …

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop to Team, “It’s Time to Jump From This Burning Platform”

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

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 …

Play Angry Birds with this Kinect Hack Provided by KinEmote

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

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 …

INSIDE Secure Opening Up Android Open NFC

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

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 …

Kinect Hack Allows Players to Draw their Own Controller, Represents So Much More

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

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 …

Bought the Presses: AOL Purchases The Huffington Post for $315M

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

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 …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

The Microsoft-Nokia Connection Rumors Finally Become Official and it May Not be a “Bad Thing”

HP webOS Event Underway: Announced Palm Pre 3, Veer, Touchpad

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop to Team, “It’s Time to Jump From This Burning Platform”

Play Angry Birds with this Kinect Hack Provided by KinEmote

INSIDE Secure Opening Up Android Open NFC

Kinect Hack Allows Players to Draw their Own Controller, Represents So Much More

Bought the Presses: AOL Purchases The Huffington Post for $315M

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