Samsung has confirmed to have joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member. It is the highest tier of membership at the Linux Foundation that will earn the Korean company a place in the Board of Directors. Samsung’s investment reiterates its commitment to the Linux platform as they’ve been using the Linux kernel, Linux-based […]
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Samsung Tizen Developer Device gets a video demo
Samsung is one of the founding members of the Tizen OS and it comes as no surprise the Tizen developer conference was showcasing a developer device produced by Samsung. The phone which will be used by developers to test out their Tizen apps features an ARM-based 1.2GHz dual-core processor, which is interesting because Intel […]
Samsung to integrate bada OS with Tizen, hints at non-phone bada devices
Samsung will merge its home-grown bada OS with Tizen OS, an executive has confirmed. In an interview with Forbes, Tae-Jin Kang, Senior Vice President of Samsung’s Contents Planning Team confirmed that they’ll merge both the operating systems. Kang refrained from giving an exact timeline but said the work is “already underway” and will support […]
Samsung and Intel to spearhead development of Tizen OS
It’s a known fact that Samsung is one of the key members of the LiMo Foundation and in the past, have dabbled with few devices running LiMo OS. Now the news comes from LiMo and Linux Foundation that they have come together to develop a new open-source OS called Tizen. Tizen will be an […]