Kyt Dotson
Latest from Kyt Dotson
Clash of the Titans: Facebook to Unveil E-mail System to Rival Google
The web is resonating with speculation today as to what’s going to be unveiled by Facebook at an event Monday. Invites went out to various news outlets today, stylized to look like an express mail letter, including large messaging iconography. The prevailing thought is that the announced “Project Titan” could become the release of personal ...
YouTube’s Continues to Dominate at 35 Hours of Video Uploaded a Minute
The metric for recording our lives and storing it digitally is still being decided on, but YouTube would certainly be high on that chart with this stat: over 34 hours of video are being uploaded every minute. According to GigaOM, this means the video sharing site and Google are looking for better ways to view ...
Motorola, Microsoft Trading Blows With U.S. Patent Lawsuits
Motorola Mobility Inc., a subsidiary of Motorola, said it sued Microsoft on Wednesday over patent infringement, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. This makes up almost the third round of lawsuit filings between the two industry giants as Microsoft filed earlier last month over Android mobiles—mostly a royalties scuffle there. Now, Motorola ...
Twitter Gets Pinged with iTunes Music
A lot of people out there are guilty of typing the lyrics of whatever they’re listening to into their Twitter stream—almost like they want to sing along to their thousands of followers—other services even allow them to post the current song playing on their desktop streaming media player. Now Ping, the Apple iTunes’s music social ...
Intel AppUp Developer Program Opens MeeGo Portal
What happens when you merge two already powerful mobile-based software development suites into one OS and SDK? You get MeeGo. Intel Moblin and Nokia Maemo announced their unification at Mobile World Congress in February 2009 and recently announced the 1.1 core OS and SDK release of MeeGo in late October. To celebrate this launch, Intel ...
Unidentified Flying Missile-like Object Seen off California Coast
A streak across the sky visible rising out of the Pacific has sparked a great deal of discussion and concern as nobody seems to be taking credit for it—from NASA to the U.S. military. Two videos have surfaced of the “launch” but neither of much quality to actually see much more than a blur and ...
Google Calls Facebook to the Mat as Contact Portability Smackdown Continues
“Trap my contacts now,” reads the Google contacts export form when viewed during Facebook registration. This stems from a battle between Facebook and Google over data portability—or particularly, that Facebook just doesn’t like to let go of anything it takes in (even when the user wants them to.) Yesterday, SiliconANGLE covered how Facebook found a ...
Kinect Open Source Drivers Finished: Full RGB Input With Depth Sensing
It looks like Hector Martin may be one step closer to the $3,000 bounty offered by Adafruit for open source Kinect drivers. Just today he announced and published full drivers with some caveats and to-do yet: TODO: 9 – TONS of cleanup. I mean LOTS. 10 – Proper buildsystem (CMake probably) 11 – Determine exactly ...
Google Improves AdSense with New Interface
Google is rolling out a brand new interface for their AdSense backend for advertisement publishers. The beta appears to totally revamp the underlying paradigm of the back end to shuffle things into different areas, putting an overview screen front and center, with earnings, alerts, messages, etc. We picked up this story from the Google Inside ...
Android and SOCOM: The New Meaning of Killer App
Android is going black beret. With the military always on the lookout for technology that can better aid their fighting forces in the field and the proliferation of out-of-the-box solutions already available in the civilian markets for smartphones, they’re looking to Android to fill the gap. We tune into Cody Hahn at Android Guys, who ...