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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.

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LimeWire Ghost Town After Shut Down, Still Clings to Future Plans

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

LimeWire has let go of 29 of their 100-person workforce in the wake of a federal injunction against their operations. However, in spite of this, the peer-to-peer software outfit keeps intimating that they’re continuing work on a music-related project. Peter Kafka from …

Facebook Cleaning Up Its Streets and Its Image

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Whenever we post our personal information on the Internet, it becomes available to everyone—even people we’d rather not saw it—and in some cases, unscrupulous companies will use this information against us. In a recent debacle, a few Facebook developers were caught using …

Gag Order Denied for SAP in Oracle Lawsuit

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

A quick update from SAP vs Oracle lawsuit land from Digital Daily, Bad news for SAP, Hewlett-Packard, its new CEO Léo Apotheker and anyone else tarred and feathered in Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s recent fusillade of anti-SAP broadsides. A federal judge has …

PayPal’s Downtime Today, On Recovery Road

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

PayPal’s payment interface suffered a blow today when their API went offline. This doesn’t mean that PayPal’s website went down—that’s been working properly this entire time—but instead people haven’t been able to make or receive payments for a while. Some people have …

Apple Soars Past RIM, Still Poor Show for iAds

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

With their debut of the iPhone 4, Apple has reached the top 5 ranked vendors—leaping past Research In Motion and knocking Sony out of their spot. Nokia, however, still hangs tenaciously to their top spot with their sheer market superiority. According to …

Twitter for Windows Phone, the Official App Version

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Clean, light, easy—three adjectives that aptly describe the official Twitter app for the Windows Phone 7. This nicely rounds out their mobile app presence for the coming year, and it’s a solid display as well. We defer to the Twitter blog for …

Boosting the Web: Fiber Optic Cables and the Speed of Light

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

Anyone who survived high school physics class will probably recall silly posters on the wall postulating the Speed of Light, “c”, as a speed limit—as SiliconANGLE’s Mark Hopkins says, “299,792,458 metres per second. IT’S THE LAW.” Information is channeled across fiber optic …

Box.net Inflates the Personal Cloud with Extra Storage

NEWS By KYT DOTSON16 YEARS AGO

With storage becoming cheaper every day, we’re becoming more and more of a media producing and consuming culture. However, in-hand storage only goes so far—and when we want to work with other people, what we have in-hand isn’t as helpful as what …

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