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

Google Calls Facebook to the Mat as Contact Portability Smackdown Continues

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

“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 …

Kinect Open Source Drivers Finished: Full RGB Input With Depth Sensing

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

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. …

Android and SOCOM: The New Meaning of Killer App

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

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 …

Groupon Seeking $3 Billion Valuation

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

In true journalistic fashion, several anonymous sources materialized to tell Bloomberg about Groupon’s private search for new funding—to the tune of a $3 billion valuation. Looking at how well saturated the web seems to be with the company’s advertisements (I happen to …

New Windows Phone 7 Models Appear In U.S. Stores, Now Also With Xbox LIVE

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Microsoft has released a new operating system version for Windows Phone 7 and those phones are beginning to hit the shelves now. The new models appearing in U.S. stores debut at around $200 retail, but discounts may bring them down as low …

Kinect Camera Feeds Already Cracked, Hacker Not Interested in the Bounty

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Like most hackers, Alex P knew a challenge when he saw one and couldn’t resist. He spent this last weekend playing around with Microsoft’s brand new Xbox Kinect camera and has successfully gotten it to work on a Windows 7 machine. This …

Clearwire in the Midst of Layoffs Due to Financial Drain

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Wireless Internet service provider Clearwire has gone into crisis mode recently with significant losses in revenue from a lack of financing and constantly extending costs. To stave off financial doom, the company is cutting its workforce by almost 630 people (15% of …

Android’s Past the Terrible Twos, Still Suckling HTML 5 for Google Instant

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

The Google Android OS has turned 3 today. Happy birthday Google Android—we hope to see more of you as you grow into HTML5 along with the rest of the industry. Google hopes so too, as HTML 5 has become an important part …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Google Calls Facebook to the Mat as Contact Portability Smackdown Continues

Kinect Open Source Drivers Finished: Full RGB Input With Depth Sensing

Android and SOCOM: The New Meaning of Killer App

Groupon Seeking $3 Billion Valuation

New Windows Phone 7 Models Appear In U.S. Stores, Now Also With Xbox LIVE

Kinect Camera Feeds Already Cracked, Hacker Not Interested in the Bounty

Clearwire in the Midst of Layoffs Due to Financial Drain

Android’s Past the Terrible Twos, Still Suckling HTML 5 for Google Instant

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