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

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 …

The $3 Million Heritage Health Prize: Big Data Enhancing Wellness Across the World

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

In his presentation, Anthony Goldbloom of Kaggle called this the biggest ever data prize. Right now, they’re running a competition in cooperation with Heritage Provider Network looking for programmers to develop the next Big Data health-related algorithm for helping re-envision health care …

EnterpriseDB Rolls Out Postgres Security Tools

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

We’ve heard it already, security in the cloud has become an important thing so when EnterpriseDB has released a new security suite for PostgreSQL our ears perked up. Notably because we’ve been watching EMC and their move to enable the open-source cloud—to …

Scott Yara of Greenplum on Why Big Data is…the Next Big Thing

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

For a long while, computing power, storage, and network speed were bottlenecks to building an empire of data within the Information Technology sector—we’ve certainly always had the information, but the technology to harness it still needed its internal-combustion engine revolution. All that …

Strata Keynote Sees Data Marketplaces for the Future

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Taking in the keynote from the Strata has felt a lot like watching what amounted to a advertising blitz—each of the speakers took less than ten minutes a piece and focused on an individual industry sector rather than outlining things to come. …

IPv4 Going Extinct, It’s Way Beyond Time We Started Migrating to IPv6

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

“You have reached the end of the Internet. Please go back.” According to the Internet Address and Naming Agency (IANA), which hands out blocks of Internet addresses, they will be allocating the last seven remaining blocks this month. The IPv4 address set …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

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

The $3 Million Heritage Health Prize: Big Data Enhancing Wellness Across the World

Strata Keynote Sees Data Marketplaces for the Future

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