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

Ex-CEO Mark Hurd Drama Continues, Judge Rejects Shareholder Request for Hewlett-Packard Documents

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Back in November 2010, Hewlett-Packard Co. shareholder Ernesto Espinoza requested access to corporate documents with information about ex-CEO Mark Hurd’s relationship with contractor Jodie Fisher. Recently, a judge ruled that he is not entitled to those documents, according to an article in …

Firefox 4 for Android Picks HTML5 Over Flash

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Only a week ago, Mozilla released Firefox 4—after a great deal of work on betas for both the PC and Android versions—and now we’ve been graced with the Android release. The biggest feature apparent on the Android Firefox that belongs to recent …

Kinect Benefits Surgeons in Toronto via Hands Free Image Manipulation

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Medical imaging enables surgeons amazing insights into the inner workings of the body without having to cut into a person—it also permits them to be more precise when it comes time to make those cuts. As a result, imaging in the OR …

Amazon Appstore and the Test Drive Feature

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

This past week brought us the unveiling of the Amazon app store for Android apps and as it enables people to make purchases both from their smartphones and their PCs (to deliver to their smartphones) this opens up some very interesting capabilities. …

Google Teams Up With MasterCard and Citigroup to Extend Android NFC Penetration

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Looking to push forward as an innovator and bring the digital wallet to smartphones everywhere, Google Inc. has plans to team up with MasterCard and Citigroup to complete the use of Near-Field Communication for financial transactions—the technology, already embedded in Android phones …

Look Out PlayStation Move, Homebrew Hacker Hooks Kinect to PS3

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

In what must be a particularly funny maneuver in Sony’s eyes, a hacker has managed to make the Microsoft Kinect work with a PlayStation 3. In a video demo he’s shown that he’s managed to get the peripheral to operate on the …

NPD Group Believes Shuttering LimeWire has Caused Dip in American P2P Piracy

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

An NPD Group report is right now making the rounds touting an apparent decline in the illicit use of P2P networks to pirate music since the shutdown of LimeWire last October. The study cites a drop in overall P2P piracy from 16% …

MocoSpace Announces First Recipients in HTML5 Mobile Game Developer Fund

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Last month, MocoSpace—an HTML5 mobile gaming platform—announced a fund of $1 million to help accelerate the development of HTML5 games for smartphones. The fund would then become a jumpstart for a select few developers who wanted to make their way into mobile …

Visualization: Big Data’s Engine of Discovery and Communication

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Anyone who has taken a photography class—or even a presentation class—has heard the constant adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” It’s a revelation about how people process information conveyed to them and what we’ve learned is that sometimes pictures can …

Angry Birds Rio Hits the Amazon App Store Like a Ton of Feathers (Get it Free: Only Today)

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

A big hearty welcome back to everybody’s favorite feathered Rube Goldberg engines of destruction and their slingshot in Angry Birds Rio. Amazon.com has just opened an alternative marketplace for Android apps with their very own app store and it’s doing insanely well. …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Ex-CEO Mark Hurd Drama Continues, Judge Rejects Shareholder Request for Hewlett-Packard Documents

Firefox 4 for Android Picks HTML5 Over Flash

Kinect Benefits Surgeons in Toronto via Hands Free Image Manipulation

Amazon Appstore and the Test Drive Feature

Look Out PlayStation Move, Homebrew Hacker Hooks Kinect to PS3

Angry Birds Rio Hits the Amazon App Store Like a Ton of Feathers (Get it Free: Only Today)

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