The schedule of events, including the full list of sessions for the upcoming Tizen Conference (May 7-9) has been published. There are several session tracks including:   PLATFORM INTRODUCTORY APPLICATION INTRODUCTORY PLATFORM ADVANCED APPLICATION ADVANCED PROJECT & COMMUNITY/ UPCOMING TECHNOLOGIES IVI   We have talks planned on a wide variety of topics, including Tizen Architecture, Tizen WebAPIs, HTML5, In-Vehicle Infotainment, Tizen telephony, graphics, [...]

    @realnorth with his eagle eyes tweeted that the Tizen Package Server is now available for download at the following Direct Download URL:

    The Linux Foundation Collaboration summit has been taking place in San Francisco. This was an innovation-only summit that is designed for the movers and shakers in the Linux world to meet face to face and tackle “the most pressing issues facing Linux today“. The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only summit, gathering core kernel developers, distribution maintainers, ISVs, end users, system [...]

    New EFL Release to include Eio, Ethumb, Emotion and Elementary:   We’d like to announce a new release cycle alpha release of several Enlightenment components. This round we have added Eio, Ethumb, Emotion and Elementary. Emotion is a library to handle video playback using Gstreamer, Xine or other external plugins (VLC) and display video in Evas as a standard object. It also can [...]

    One tid bit of information that has been floating around on the Inter-Web today was an interesting test result from html5test.com/. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it is a website designed to benchmark web browsers in their support of HTML5. Initially I was not going to start shouting about this but it seems the web has gone a bit mad about [...]

    Does your Company want to be showcased at the First Tizen Conference ? Be a pioneer in the Open Source Operating System world ? Sponsorship opportunities are now available. Read on for the full information. The Tizen 2012 San Francisco conference sponsorship offering presents an opportunity for visibility among a global audience of thought leaders around the latest mobile computing solution. You are [...]

    Cordova Tizen Cordova Tizen is a skeleton web application which allows a developer to build and run a Cordova web application on Tizen. Cordova port to tizen is done thanks to a simple JS wrapper (shim layer) doing the mapping of the Cordova Web API to the Tizen Web API. Set up your environment Open a terminal, and navigate to the root cordova-tizen [...]

  MeeCast an Open Source weather application for MeeGo Harmattan is winging its way towards Tizen. Developer Vasvlad has shared a video and some screenshots:     Features Sleek design User-friendly and appealing interface design optimized for minimum scren power consumption of your Nokia N9. Multiple customizable sources Choose from various weather information providers to find the most accurate for your location Multiple locations Track [...]

    Officially nothing was announced from Mobile World Congress (MWC) about Tizen but there was a invite only event where devices were shown and it look like the guys at CyberComm did a bit of Videoing. The Video below just shows the Gallery User Interface (UI) and DAMN it looks nice.     Sorry, I can’t talk now. Mouth is watering. Come on Intel [...]

    Here is Intel’s Daniel Holmlund and Michael Mahemoff having a quick chat and demo about HTML5 Playground and the AppUp programme.     The playground is similar to what you’ve seen with tools such as JSFiddle, JSBin, Tinker.io, and HTML5Rocks’ own HTML5 Playground, with the key focus here being a “sharing and learning tool” in Daniel’s words. You can see here in the [...]

    So far the Tizen Project have received over 50 proposals for the Tizen Conference but as it is with human nature, they WANT MORE !!! So the deadline to submit has been extended for another week to March 15, 11:59 PST.   We’re looking for additional sessions in all areas: application development and deployment, device and product development, platform development, and Tizen project, [...]

  EXOdesk UI Developer Preview, provided below, is aimed to help developers to create and test applications for the EXOdesk. Later this month, the publication tool will be made available to allow the participants of the EXOdesk Development Challenge to submit their applications.     EXOdesk UI is built on the HTML5 apps runtime EXOengine. An application can be built either with HTML tags or [...]

    Architecture The EXOPC architecture is built around the HTML5 standard and EXOengine, aimed to provide the missing pieces to HTML5 for software developers. EXOengine is a 400kb binary file available for Windows, Android, and MacOS. EXO file format The EXO file is a container aimed to compress and store various files composing an HTML5 application. The EXO file is easy to send from [...]

    Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), the world’s second-largest handset maker, will “significantly” increase investment to bolster its own mobile-phone operating system, pitching it as an alternative to Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Android. “We believe this is a good platform to build on,” Juha Park, senior vice president of product strategy at Samsung, said in an interview in Barcelona yesterday, referring to the company’s Bada software. [...]

    Time waits for no man and as such the Deadline to submit your papers for the Tizen Conference draws near. March 8th is around the corner. Hurry up and be part of the the First Tizen Conference. Heres all the info: The first annual Tizen Conference engages and educates developers on Tizen technology and HTML5 app development for Tizen devices. This conference is [...]