17

May

2013

by Ash

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Wow – Samsung takes 95 percent of Q1 Android profits

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  In a first quarter of this year the Android’s OS generated US$5.3 billion in operating profit, of that profit Samsung managed to capture a whopping 94.7% of the overall ...

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17

Apr

2013

by Ash

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Samsung Flexes its Open Source Muscles where you might not expect

Developer

  When you think of open source, you probably think of Linux, engines such as the WebKit browser engine and the Java language and virtual machine, and open source software ...

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16

Apr

2013

by Ash

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Adobe to Contribute To Google’s Blink Browser Engine

Developer

  Following Googles announcement that it would fork webkit to develop its own Blink browser, Today Vincent Hardy, Adobe’s director of engineering for the company’s Web Platform team, announced that ...

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11

Apr

2013

by Ash

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Linux 3.10 May Have New Multi-Platform Support

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  The Linux 3.7 kernel brought ARM multi-platform support and now with the Linux 3.10 kernel it may be extended to support the Samsung Exynos SoC family. The ARM multi-platform ...

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09

Apr

2013

by Sam

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Live Video Streaming From Collaboration Summit, Request an Invite To End User Summit and Upcoming Google+ Interview

Developer

    The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only summit gathering core kernel developers, distribution maintainers, ISVs, end users, system vendors and other community organizations for plenary sessions ...

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05

Apr

2013

by Ash

14 Comments

Google, Samsung and Mozilla leave WebKit

Developer

  Google, Samsung and Mozilla announced that they will be leaving Apple’s WebKit rendering engine and working on a new browser rendering engine. There will be two flavours one called ...

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04

Apr

2013

by Ash

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Google No Longer Cares For WebKit Either, Apparently, Forking The Engine Into New Project Called ‘Blink’

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    Man, WebKit cannot catch a break today, can it? After Samsung announced that it would be teaming up with Mozilla to build their own mobile browser engine called ...

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21

Mar

2013

by Ash

12 Comments

Samsung boss denies Google rift, announces high-end Tizen Smartphone by September

Developer

  Samsung has announced it intends to launch a high-end smartphone based on a new smartphone platform the Korean electronics maker has been co-developing with Intel, called Tizen, in August ...

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27

Feb

2013

by Ash

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Hands-on with Tizen 2.0 on Samsung’s Developer handset (video)

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    Shuffle along, shuffle along, because this couch is about to get crowded. Alongside the big four, we now have Ubuntu, Firefox OS and the latest version of Tizen ...

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17

Feb

2013

by Ash

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Can Samsung build its own ecosystem with Tizen?

All Categories , Smartphone

    Samsung Electronics has emerged as a global corporation commensurate with U.S. technology giant Apple but a weakness in software is still the Korean firm’s Achilles heel. The world’s ...

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25

May

2012

by Ash

14 Comments

HP’s WebOS Enyo Team is Going to Google

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10

Mar

2012

by Ash

9 Comments

Google Play unveiled – the new place for Music, Apps, Books and Video

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    Google’s content portal for Android apps, music, books and video content has been consolidated under a new name — Google Play. Google Play which is now live on ...

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18

Jan

2012

by Ash

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Samsung Seeks to Merge Smartphone Operating Platforms

All Categories , Smartphone

    Samsung Electronics Co plans to merge its own ‘bada’ mobile phone operating software with an open-source Tizen platform as the world’s biggest smartphone maker seeks alternatives to Google’s ...

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17

Jan

2012

by Ash

21 Comments

Samsung Says to Merge Bada mobile OS with Intel-Backed Tizen

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    Samsung Electronics Co said on Tuesday it planned to merge its ‘bada’ mobile software with a platform backed by chipmaker Intel Corp in its latest push to diversify ...

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20

Dec

2011

by Ash

197 Comments

Flash Player 11.1 Released With Android 4.0 Support

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  Adobe launched Flash Player 11.1 — its final mobile browser plug-in for Android smartphones and tablets — along with AIR 3.1. While it’s set to give way to HTML5, ...

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