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

The Strange History of SMS as Text Messaging Turns 19

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

As communication protocols go, SMS (or Short Message Service) hails from a Nordic birthplace, the same land that brought us Nokia, the once (and hopefully future) king of mobile. The protocol has a deep past from its most nascent and infant steps …

Microsoft Debuts New Xbox 360 Experience: Energizes TV-Viewing, Social Gaming, Kinect Voice Control

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Microsoft has fastened the armor on the Xbox, donned their helmet, and grabbed their jousting lance, and thrust their ever-popular console into the arena where it’s certain to dominate as the entertainment-center of the living room. Not only does the Xbox connect …

Mars Rover Curiosity Equipped with Laser Death Ray for Science!

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

In 247 days, about the beginning of next year’s autumn, NASA’s newest robotic observer, Curiosity, will land on Martian soil. Any science fiction reader who has studied astronomy and followed humanity’s ever expanding interest in the sky and of our neighboring planets, …

Verizon Xbox LIVE FiOS TV Lackluster on Broadcast Content

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It looks like Verizon has taken a leap towards making their FiOS TV service a reality via Xbox LIVE thus sealing the dominance of the Xbox as an Internet TV platform and a major player in the set-top-box market. The Verizon app …

Augmented Reality Chipsets from Intel Integrated by Total Immersion

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The field of augmented reality is becoming an important part of the mobile ecology. Enabling tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices to “see” and overlay reality with meta-information. Total Immersion, an outfit who write software to enable developers to take advantage of …

Facebook Fattens Up Status Update Character Limit from 5K to 60K+

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

In what almost feels like an exponential progression, Facebook has updated their previous 5,000 character limit to a whopping 60,000 characters. The change was first discovered by All Facebook on the Facebook+Journalists page announcing the upped limit as well as outlining the …

Microsoft Boasts Biggest Sales Week in Xbox History, 1 Million Consoles Sold

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The Xbox 360 has been out for almost seven years—that’s also how old Blizzard’s colossal MMO World of Warcraft is—and it’s still going extremely strong. According to the Official Microsoft Blog, last week closed the biggest sales week in Xbox 360 history: …

Carrier IQ Android App Caught Secretly Logging Keypresses, HTTPS Queries

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

A recent YouTube video posted Monday by Trevor Eckhart, an Android app developer, says that a particularly popular app that hides from plain view and watches everything that happens on the phone. During the video, Eckhart used a packet sniffer and a …

Nexon’s MapleStory Hacked, 13.2 million Korean Online Gamers’ Data Exposed

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Last week, a massive private data breach struck Nexon’s extremely popular massively multiplayer online game, MapleStory that affected nearly three quarters of the 18 million players. According to the MMO publisher, much of the sensitive stolen information had been encrypted; however, as …

Rumor: Is Microsoft really in the ‘early stages of licensing’ for a Kinect-enabled TV?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Microsoft is working hard behind the scenes and right up in front to bring Kinect technology into commercial enterprise. It has already proven itself as a powerful human-computer interface for video games, and now with the Kinect Accelerator program, but what about …

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The Strange History of SMS as Text Messaging Turns 19

Mars Rover Curiosity Equipped with Laser Death Ray for Science!

Verizon Xbox LIVE FiOS TV Lackluster on Broadcast Content

Augmented Reality Chipsets from Intel Integrated by Total Immersion

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