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Learn more about HTML5, Tizen, and much more at Orange Partner Days in Paris on June 11 and 12. Monday, June 11: HTML5 and Tizen For Tizen developers, Monday afternoon is focused on HTML5, with a team of experts from Orange, Intel, Samsung, and ... [More] others. Learn about: real developer experiences from working with HTML5 distribution opportunities for HTML5 apps how HTML5 is supported – from devices to browsers the Tizen platform, devices, and apps The event on Monday starts with lunch at noon and presentations from 1pm until 5pm. If you want to stick around, they will be showing the EURO 2012 France vs England game starting at 6pm. If you are interested in Open Data, June’s Mobile Monday Paris meetup will begin at 8pm. Registrations for Mobile Monday will be open soon. Tuesday, June 12: Open Innovation The event will continue on Tuesday with presentations on: NFC 4G/LTE LBS and M2M apps and services for pro and SMBs Mobile including HTML5, Windows 8 digital home and TV Register for the event or get more details at the Orange Partner Days website. Space for this event is limited.   [Less]

Thanks to all the developers, independent software vendors, carriers, device manufacturers, and others who joined us for the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco. With almost eight hundred people in attendance and hundreds more on the live ... [More] stream, the Tizen project is off to a great start. Your insights, feedback, and willingness to collaborate were what made the conference so interesting for all of us. We had 46 sessions on a wide variety of topics, including Tizen Architecture, Tizen WebAPIs, HTML5, In-Vehicle Infotainment, Tizen telephony, graphics, community, and much more. Don't worry if you missed something, we have video or audio and presentation materials for almost every session. Visit the schedule page to find the session that you want to watch or listen to. During the initial keynote on Tuesday morning, Imad Sousou (Director of Intel's Open Source Technology Center) and Jong-Deok Choi (EVP, Samsung Software R&D Center) gave a Tizen Project overview presentation that included demos of Tizen, product features, roadmap information, and more details about using HTML5 for Tizen development. They emphasized that Tizen brings unique value to everyone involved in building and using devices - device manufacturers, operators, app vendors, and, of course, end users. With the Tizen 1.0 Larkspur release, the focus will be on mobile, as well as In-vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) platforms. The follow-on release will be named Magnolia and will be released at the end of 2012. Magnolia will add support for Native APIs, additional web APIs, and other improvements, such as security enhancements. The demos were one of the most impressive parts of their keynote. The demos showed that HTML5-based applications can deliver native-level performance with WebGL and CSS-based animations, along with a phone call that used the Tizen Web API. They also announced the Tizen Software Development Platforms (SDPs) with an ARM CPU and Intel HSPA+ communications processor. They were distributed to eligible attendees and were only available at the conference. Our focus on HTML5 and web standards was reinforced during the keynote from James Pearce, Head of Mobile Developer Relations at Facebook, where he shared his perspective on how the web is evolving to become simultaneously more social and mobile, encouraging developers to join efforts to standardize on web platforms. He talked about the shift towards mobile and how the next wave of businesses and companies will be mobile-first, leaving the desktop age behind. Social and mobile were made for each other, and we have a far better social experience while mobile, than while sitting behind a computer because we can include our friends in our mobile experiences using social platforms. The data Pearce shared from Facebook proves this point with 1.1 billion monthly mobile visits. Pearce went on to say that Facebook has 900 million active users after 8 years, and in just half that time, they have 488 million active mobile users after only 4 years. He also demonstrated Tizen's HTML5 compliance on mobile with an ad hoc demo using Ringmark, to show that Tizen supports more HTML5 features than many other mobile and desktop web browsers. Technologies like Ringmark are becoming increasingly important as a way to demonstrate HTML5 compliance and help developers write applications that will work on their targeted mobile device. If you were unable to make the trip to sunny San Francisco last week, fear not. We have plenty of audio, video and presentation materials available for almost every keynote or session. Photo Credit to Reggie Suplido from Tizen Talk used under a Creative Commons license: Imad and JD, James Pearce. [Less]

Thanks to all the developers, independent software vendors, carriers, device manufacturers, and others who joined us for the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco. With almost eight hundred people in attendance and hundreds more on the live ... [More] stream, the Tizen project is off to a great start. Your insights, feedback, and willingness to collaborate were what made the conference so interesting for all of us. We had 46 sessions on a wide variety of topics, including Tizen Architecture, Tizen WebAPIs, HTML5, In-Vehicle Infotainment, Tizen telephony, graphics, community, and much more. Don't worry if you missed something, we have video or audio and presentation materials for almost every session. Visit the schedule page to find the session that you want to watch or listen to. During the initial keynote on Tuesday morning, Imad Sousou (Director of Intel's Open Source Technology Center) and Jong-Deok Choi (EVP, Samsung Software R&D Center) gave a Tizen Project overview presentation that included demos of Tizen, product features, roadmap information, and more details about using HTML5 for Tizen development. They emphasized that Tizen brings unique value to everyone involved in building and using devices - device manufacturers, operators, app vendors, and, of course, end users. With the Tizen 1.0 Larkspur release, the focus will be on mobile, as well as In-vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) platforms. The follow-on release will be named Magnolia and will be released at the end of 2012. Magnolia will add support for Native APIs, additional web APIs, and other improvements, such as security enhancements. The demos were one of the most impressive parts of their keynote. The demos showed that HTML5-based applications can deliver native-level performance with WebGL and CSS-based animations, along with a phone call that used the Tizen Web API. They also announced the Tizen Software Development Platforms (SDPs) with an ARM CPU and Intel HSPA+ communications processor. They were distributed to eligible attendees and were only available at the conference. Our focus on HTML5 and web standards was reinforced during the keynote from James Pearce, Head of Mobile Developer Relations at Facebook, where he shared his perspective on how the web is evolving to become simultaneously more social and mobile, encouraging developers to join efforts to standardize on web platforms. He talked about the shift towards mobile and how the next wave of businesses and companies will be mobile-first, leaving the desktop age behind. Social and mobile were made for each other, and we have a far better social experience while mobile, than while sitting behind a computer because we can include our friends in our mobile experiences using social platforms. The data Pearce shared from Facebook proves this point with 1.1 billion monthly mobile visits. Pearce went on to say that Facebook has 900 million active users after 8 years, and in just half that time, they have 488 million active mobile users after only 4 years. He also demonstrated Tizen's HTML5 compliance on mobile with an ad hoc demo using Ringmark, to show that Tizen supports more HTML5 features than many other mobile and desktop web browsers. Technologies like Ringmark are becoming increasingly important as a way to demonstrate HTML5 compliance and help developers write applications that will work on their targeted mobile device. If you were unable to make the trip to sunny San Francisco last week, fear not. We have plenty of audio, video and presentation materials available for almost every keynote or session. Photo Credit to Reggie Suplido from Tizen Talk used under a Creative Commons license: Imad and JD, James Pearce. [Less]

We want to hear your advice, product feedback, and experiences on writing apps for Tizen devices and build the knowledge base of Tizen.org members. Post a comment to this blog related to application development for Tizen devices. To be eligible for ... [More] prizes, your comment must be at least 100 words long (that’s only about the length of this section), and include one of the following: A testimonial on experience developing a Tizen app Recommendations and/or product improvements for future releases of Tizen and/or product improvements A solution to a specific challenge in Tizen development Advice or a demo on how to write an app for Tizen Porting an existing app to Tizen Using the Tizen SDK We will award $50 gift cards for the first 50 eligible entries, and three monthly prizes of a 480 GB SSD drive. The Grand Prize is an Intel Core* i7 desktop PC. Our judging panel of Tizen experts at Intel will be looking for technical accuracy, relevance, innovation, enthusiasm, community building/reaction, and overall quality of posts. Complete contest details can be found on the Intel website. Privacy Statement: Intel is committed to respecting your privacy. By commenting on this blog, you are agreeing to provide Intel with your name and email address. This information will be used only for prize distribution. If you win, Intel will ask for your permission to collect your mailing address for award delivery purposes only. Once the contest has ended and all winners’ awards have been mailed, all personal information provided to Intel will be deleted. To learn more about Intel’s privacy practices, please visit http://www.intel.com/privacy. The Fine Print: Contest open to registered members of the Tizen Community at http://tizen.org. Contest open to participants worldwide. All national and local laws and regulations of the resident’s country of residence apply. Contest is void wherever restricted or prohibited by law. No purchase necessary. Entrants must be able to speak, read, and understand English. Participants must be 18 years or older to enter. Contest runs from 7:00 PM PACIFIC May 7, 2012 to 7:00 PM PACIFIC August 7, 2012. Post must meet community and content guidelines for Tizen.org. Complete Rules and Terms of Contest Entry This contest is subject to the Complete Rules and Terms of Contest Entry found on the Intel website. Comment below. We want to hear from you. [Less]

We want to hear your advice, product feedback, and experiences on writing apps for Tizen devices and build the knowledge base of Tizen.org members. Post a comment to this blog related to application development for Tizen devices. To be eligible for ... [More] prizes, your comment must be at least 100 words long (that’s only about the length of this section), and include one of the following: A testimonial on experience developing a Tizen app Recommendations and/or product improvements for future releases of Tizen and/or product improvements A solution to a specific challenge in Tizen development Advice or a demo on how to write an app for Tizen Porting an existing app to Tizen Using the Tizen SDK We will award $50 gift cards for the first 50 eligible entries, and three monthly prizes of a 480 GB SSD drive. The Grand Prize is an Intel Core* i7 desktop PC. Our judging panel of Tizen experts at Intel will be looking for technical accuracy, relevance, innovation, enthusiasm, community building/reaction, and overall quality of posts. Complete contest details can be found on the Intel website. Privacy Statement: Intel is committed to respecting your privacy. By commenting on this blog, you are agreeing to provide Intel with your name and email address. This information will be used only for prize distribution. If you win, Intel will ask for your permission to collect your mailing address for award delivery purposes only. Once the contest has ended and all winners’ awards have been mailed, all personal information provided to Intel will be deleted. To learn more about Intel’s privacy practices, please visit http://www.intel.com/privacy. The Fine Print: Contest open to registered members of the Tizen Community at http://tizen.org. Contest open to participants worldwide. All national and local laws and regulations of the resident’s country of residence apply. Contest is void wherever restricted or prohibited by law. No purchase necessary. Entrants must be able to speak, read, and understand English. Participants must be 18 years or older to enter. Contest runs from 7:00 PM PACIFIC May 7, 2012 to 7:00 PM PACIFIC August 7, 2012. Post must meet community and content guidelines for Tizen.org. Complete Rules and Terms of Contest Entry This contest is subject to the Complete Rules and Terms of Contest Entry found on the Intel website. Comment below. We want to hear from you. [Less]

Today we are excited to announce Tizen 1.0 Larkspur, including the addition of new complimentary components, as well as source code that focuses on enhancing stability and performance. We believe that these updates and new offerings improve the ... [More] experience for developers. We are also continuing to work on improvements and additions, and we will be doing frequent updates to the SDK and source code. There are a few additional components that we plan to add in the coming weeks, and we will continue to fix bugs and add additional features. We encourage you to download the new SDK and let us know what you think! You can learn more about where to ask questions or submit bugs by visiting our community page. This release provides new features and other improvements, including the following updates to the SDK: Simulator: A new browser-based tool that supports the Tizen APIs and allows you to run and debug your web applications, and simulate running applications with various device profiles. IDE: Enhancements include more flexibility around templates and debugging tools. Emulator: Significantly improved emulator performance through Intel's Hardware Acceleration Manager for Windows and OpenGL acceleration for Linux. Updates to the platform source code include: Web: Support for additional features of W3C/HTML5 specification Location: Support for POI (Point of Interest) and route search Connectivity: Wi-Fi Direct key features added This is just a summary of the many changes, but you can see the full list by visiting the release notes pages for the SDK and the source code. We have also made a number of improvements to the community infrastructure. We have also added a bug tracker and wiki for the community. There are also a number of back-end changes, designed to improve stability and scalability of the infrastructure. We hope you enjoy all of these new improvements for the Tizen project. The Tizen Technical Steering Group   [Less]

Today we are excited to announce Tizen 1.0 Larkspur, including the addition of new complimentary components, as well as source code that focuses on enhancing stability and performance. We believe that these updates and new offerings improve the ... [More] experience for developers. We are also continuing to work on improvements and additions, and we will be doing frequent updates to the SDK and source code. There are a few additional components that we plan to add in the coming weeks, and we will continue to fix bugs and add additional features. We encourage you to download the new SDK and let us know what you think! You can learn more about where to ask questions or submit bugs by visiting our community page. This release provides new features and other improvements, including the following updates to the SDK: Simulator: A new browser-based tool that supports the Tizen APIs and allows you to run and debug your web applications, and simulate running applications with various device profiles. IDE: Enhancements include more flexibility around templates and debugging tools. Emulator: Significantly improved emulator performance through Intel's Hardware Acceleration Manager for Windows and OpenGL acceleration for Linux. Updates to the platform source code include: Web: Support for additional features of W3C/HTML5 specification Location: Support for POI (Point of Interest) and route search Connectivity: Wi-Fi Direct key features added This is just a summary of the many changes, but you can see the full list by visiting the release notes pages for the SDK and the source code. We have also made a number of improvements to the community infrastructure. We have also added a bug tracker and wiki for the community. There are also a number of back-end changes, designed to improve stability and scalability of the infrastructure. We hope you enjoy all of these new improvements for the Tizen project. The Tizen Technical Steering Group   [Less]

It's hard to believe, but the 2012 Tizen Developer Conference is just a week away. If you haven't done so, now is a great time to register. For those who are joining us, there are a number of things happening (PDF link) during the days and nights of ... [More] the conference. First, if you are new to San Francisco and want to see some sights, there will be a walking tour on Monday, leaving from the hacker lounge at noon. Then, registration begins at 3:00 pm, Monday afternoon. Stick around and see Tizen demos in the Market Street Foyer, from companies that are active in HTML5 development. On top of that, we'll be giving away an Ultrabook. Just visit some demonstrations and be there for the drawing. The winner could be you! The opening keynote will be by Imad Sousou from Intel and Jong-Deok Choi from Samsung, followed by a dinner sponsored by The Tizen Association. Afterwards, check out the Hacker's lounge, and try to beat Dawn Foster at Werewolf. On Tuesday, we have more keynotes from Dave Johnson of Adobe Systems, Kiyohito Nagata from Docomo, and James Pearce from Facebook, followed by conference sessions. Tuesday afternoon, we'll have a booth crawl with local food and beer tastings, and another chance to win an ultrabook. Afterwards, there will be a reception at The California Academy of Sciences, sponsored by Intel, Samsung, and Vodafone. Tuesday night is more werewolf, and, of course, the hacker's lounge will be open with late night snacks and drinks. Finally, on Wednesday we'll have more sessions, and finish with a hands-on Tizen developers lab. For those who can't attend, we'll be streaming the keynotes and the sessions in Grand Ballroom A. Details will be available soon. The other tracks will have audio recording. Podcasts and slides will be available following the event. Finally, we'd like to give a special thanks to all our sponsors:                                           [Less]

It's hard to believe, but the 2012 Tizen Developer Conference is just a week away. If you haven't done so, now is a great time to register. For those who are joining us, there are a number of things happening (PDF link) during the days and nights of ... [More] the conference. First, if you are new to San Francisco and want to see some sights, there will be a walking tour on Monday, leaving from the hacker lounge at noon. Then, registration begins at 3:00 pm, Monday afternoon. Stick around and see Tizen demos in the Market Street Foyer, from companies that are active in HTML5 development. On top of that, we'll be giving away an Ultrabook. Just visit some demonstrations and be there for the drawing. The winner could be you! The opening keynote will be by Imad Sousou from Intel and Jong-Deok Choi from Samsung, followed by a dinner sponsored by The Tizen Association. Afterwards, check out the Hacker's lounge, and try to beat Dawn Foster at Werewolf. On Tuesday, we have more keynotes from Dave Johnson of Adobe Systems, Kiyohito Nagata from Docomo, and James Pearce from Facebook, followed by conference sessions. Tuesday afternoon, we'll have a booth crawl with local food and beer tastings, and another chance to win an ultrabook. Afterwards, there will be a reception at The California Academy of Sciences, sponsored by Intel, Samsung, and Vodafone. Tuesday night is more werewolf, and, of course, the hacker's lounge will be open with late night snacks and drinks. Finally, on Wednesday we'll have more sessions, and finish with a hands-on Tizen developers lab. For those who can't attend, we'll be streaming the keynotes and the sessions in Grand Ballroom A. Details will be available soon. The other tracks will have audio recording. Podcasts and slides will be available following the event. Finally, we'd like to give a special thanks to all our sponsors:                                           [Less]

We have published the schedule of events, including the full list of sessions for the Tizen Conference being held May 7-9 in San Francisco. We have talks planned on a wide variety of topics, including Tizen Architecture, Tizen WebAPIs, HTML5 ... [More] , In-Vehicle Infotainment, Tizen telephony, graphics, and much more. Be sure to register for the conference before we run out of space. We also want to thank everyone for all the conference submissions. We received over 140 proposals and were able to accept 47 sessions into the program. These submissions were reviewed by the program committee and placed into two main categories: Platform and Application. We will have plenty of sessions for people developing applications and people interested in working on the Tizen platform, itself, to build devices running Tizen. We will also have beginner and advanced tracks, intended to separate the more introductory-level topics from those targeted at a more advanced technical audience. Whether you are an expert or a novice, you will find sessions that meet your needs. Check out the agenda and register for the conference before space is filled! Visit the conference page for more details on the event.   [Less]