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Tizen pops up as HTML5 winner
No one has seen the Tizen mobile platform in action yet, but whatever browser the in-development platform is using has blown away the competition for HTML5 performance. Listed only as “Tizen 1″ on The HTML5 Test (THT) site, the development version of the Tizen browser scored 387 points out of a possible total of [...]
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Tizen SDK Beta Download
The Tizen SDK is a comprehensive set of tools for developing Tizen Web applications. It consists of Web IDE, Emulator, toolchain, sample code, and documentation. The beta release of the Tizen SDK runs on Windows*, as well as Ubuntu*. Tizen Web applications may be developed without relying on an official Tizen IDE, as long as [...]
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What will an open webOS mean for Tizen?
So Friday, just in time for the weekend, HP announced that it would be making the webOS mobile platform an open source operating system. And was there much rejoicing? No, no there was not. Search for “webOS” in your favorite news searching tool and you will see that the predominant theme in the coverage from [...]
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Tizen Could Be a Giant Step Back for Mobile Linux
The fact that MeeGo was itself a consolidation and continuation of other Linux-based mobile and device OS projects — Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo — is yet another historical theme being repeated with Tizen. These repetitions from the mobile Linux of the past include the reshuffling of ownership and leadership, merging of efforts, changing target [...]
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From MeeGo to Tizen: the making of another software bubble
Just a short 1.5 years from MeeGo’s birth, Intel dumps it to shift focus to a new platform, Tizen, in partnership with Samsung. Guest author Dave Neary discusses the underpinnings of Tizen and why both MeeGo and Tizen are software bubbles]. This illustration is our first go at a comic strip – like it? Feel [...]
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Acer, Asus to join new Tizen project
Asustek Computer and Acer are both set to add development for the recently announced Tizen operating system project, while High Tech Computer (HTC) is currently evaluating its decision, according to market watchers. Tizen is a new open source mobile and device operating system based on Linux which will be designed to support multiple device categories, [...]
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Meego and Tizen Will Have Some Interoperability
Applications written for Meego netbooks will work on devices running Tizen, the new Linux-based mobile OS project from Intel and Samsung, but Meego apps written for smartphones won’t work on Tizen devices, Intel said. On Wednesday, the LiMo Foundation announced the development of a new mobile operating system that will be hosted by the Linux [...]
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Intel Ditches MeeGo Mobile OS for HTML5-Centric Tizen
After months of speculation, Intel has officially abandoned the Linux-based MeeGo mobile operating system it launched in 2010 with Nokia. Instead, Intel will focus on Tizen, an open-source Linux build being developped with Samsung. Like MeeGo, a hybrid of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo, Tizen is hosted by the Linux Foundation. At the Tizen Project [...]
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MeeGo to be folded into Tizen, slated to arrive in 2012
The future of Meego has become a little clearer this morning, now that the Linux Foundation has announced that it’ll be replaced with Tizen — a new Linux-based, open-source OS. Samsung and Intel have been tapped to lead the development of the platform, in collaboration with the LiMo Foundation — a consortium of companies including [...]
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Welcome Tizen to The Linux Foundation
Today we are welcoming a new project hosted at The Linux Foundation. Tizen is a Linux-based, open source platform designed to address the future of HTML5-based applications across a variety of device types. We think the project has a lot of potential, both for its technology and the major players it has involved in it. [...]
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