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

Akamai Provides Game Companies Shelter from Thunderstorms in the Cloud

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

As casually as customers approach the Internet and the cloud, there’s still a bit of risk that we take on personally every time we go online. This fact is amplified by leaps and bounds for companies that provide content to clients—they’re online …

Expression Recognition in Avatar Kinect Continues to Capture the Imagination

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The Microsoft Kinect peripheral has been seen as an innovative technology for human-computer interaction and not just for video games as it had been released. Along came CES and Steve Ballmer himself introduced Avatar Kinect to surprised and adoring audience. The technology …

New PlayStation Network Exploit Discovered, Exacerbated by Recent Hack

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Security in the cloud is an evolving process based on solving for current understandings of potential attacks against a system and managing the risk for customers. Today it was discovered that an exploit in the PlayStation Network’s password reset service allows attackers …

Bill Gates Advocated Skype Takeover as Microsoft’s Shadow Looms Over Mobile

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Like the Cylon’s from Battlestar Galactica, Microsoft obviously has a plan and the software giant has probably been scheming ever since they laid down a cool $8.5 billion to purchase Internet calling software company Skype. Even giant multinational corporations don’t just rush …

Square Enix Confirms 25,000 E-mail Addresses Taken in Website Breach

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The PlayStation Network hasn’t been the only video game outfit to suffer a data breach in the past weeks, a breach at Eidos Montreal suffered one recently that has gone relatively unnoticed. It seems to be part of a trend where more …

Rumor: Skype Only an Appetizer as Microsoft Aims for Nokia Aqusition

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Russian technology blogger, Eldar Murtazin, has set the mobile world on fire today with a Twitter post suggesting that Microsoft might be whetting their appetite for a purchase of Nokia’s mobile division. This would be in addition to the software giant’s recent …

Possible FTC Scrutiny of DropBox Sheds Light on Personal Security in the Cloud

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

With more than 25 million users, to call cloud-based personal-storage software DropBox wildly popular would be an understatement. It’s an excellent little on-desktop app with a multitude of connectivity functions to being able to publish files directly from desktop to the web …

SAPphire 2011: Tony Pagliarulo Talks Virtualization and Business Intelligence

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

As the Vice President of IT at EMC, Tony Pagliarulo sits in a very interesting place when it comes to choosing what software and enterprise production will be taking EMC into the future. John Furrier and Dave Vellante interviewed him in The …

As the PlayStation Network Comes Back Online, Amazon’s EC2 Cloud Discovered as Part of Attack

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

This weekend has seen the beginning of the end of the saga of the PlayStation Network downtime that left millions of customers in the dark and dragged Sony into the glaring spotlight of Congressional scrutiny. Burning the downtime to an end racks …

Facebook Hired PR Company Burson-Marsteller to Plant Negative Google Stories

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The social networking giant, Facebook found themselves caught up in a campaign-level fiasco today when news outlets caught them secretly hiring a PR firm to distribute negative press about Google. The plot revolved around producing FUD (Fear-Uncertainty-and-Doubt) directed at Google’s social application …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

New PlayStation Network Exploit Discovered, Exacerbated by Recent Hack

Bill Gates Advocated Skype Takeover as Microsoft’s Shadow Looms Over Mobile

Rumor: Skype Only an Appetizer as Microsoft Aims for Nokia Aqusition

SAPphire 2011: Tony Pagliarulo Talks Virtualization and Business Intelligence

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