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Top 5 Tech Stories of the Week: Chromebooks, LibreOffice, Fire Phone, Dropbox and Microsoft
Summer is in its middle, but no vacation is for IT industry newsmakers. If you’ve overslept a great part of news, we’ve definitely got something for your here.
And again about Chromebooks… US B2B sales of Chromebooks are the thing to be proud about. Businesses, schools and governments those are the institutions who made Chromebooks sales increases by 250 percent on last year. Get details in overview. They even have charts there.
Continuing on good. While Libreoffice team is celebrating a good news about the UK government selection of the Open Document Format (ODF), Libreoffice users could celebrate their own small holiday - final Release Candidate version of LibreOffice 4.3 is now out and ready for testing.
Amazon users still need to wait a bit to see a new Amazon-based Fire phone in stores, however they could enjoy The Verge’s journalist deep review of the device, and his user experience, while he’s been playing with it for several days.
Dropbox is taking care of its business users by implementing new sharing and search features. Hoping this new tools will make premium business features more attractive.
Microsoft claims the great cloud earnings growth in Q4. Chief executive Satya Nadella is quite excited about new figures. Check in details.
Seem all our news was positive. Hope next week we’ll not tell you anything disappointing.
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Top 5 Tech Stories of the Week: Chromebooks, Tizen, Zocalo, GIMP
Collaborations and competitions are turbulating technology air constantly. Chromebook seems to be a leader of our news thread this week . So here we go to the details.
Critics on restricted functionality didn’t stop the demand on Chromebooks especially in educational sector. Read how Dell is going to deal with the demand on the Chromebook 11.
Worries about Chromebooks high demand bother not only Dell vendor. Microsoft is coming on the arena in gladiator fight for a cheap laptops segment.
New cloud market surprise is presented by AWS. Their new cloud enterprise-class storage Zocalo is forecasted to be a strong competitor to Dropbox and Google Drive. Time will show.
Last week Samsung’s delay with a Tizen-based phone delivery popped out each article title. However this week we are recollecting the well-organised Tizen Developer Summit in Moscow in the roundup from TizenExperts.
The last but not the list. Useful tips are always welcomed. Do you know what is the best way to edit images in your web browser? We do, it’s a GIMP app available via rollApp. See for yourself.
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Samsung Didn’t Bring Its Tizen Phone to Russia. But We Rocked Dev Summit Anyway
In our previous post, we highlighted the Samsung Z Unpacked Event where Samsung’s first consumer-ready Tizen smartphone was scheduled to launch on July 10th for the Russian market.
However, the event was cancelled at the last moment and so team rollApp joined the Tizen community only at the Developer Summit in Moscow.
Tizen faces another delay as Samsung Z fails to launch http://t.co/hlJFELm0r4 pic.twitter.com/rffFvm3xrZ
— CNET (@CNET) July 11, 2014Why Tizen Smartphone Postponed
In a statement sent to The Verge, Samsung said that it “plans to postpone” the Russian release of the phone, but will continue to “actively work with Tizen Association members to further develop TIzen OS and the Tizen ecosystem.”
Vlad Pavlov, rollApp CEO and founder, in his talk with Wall Street Journal’s Olga Razumovskaya commented: “I definitely see movement, it’s just a natural process — this is how business works.” In a statement to WSJ, the Korean company said “the smartphone will appear on the Russian market later, when we can offer our users a fullest portfolio of applications.”
How rollApp Brings Cloud-Based Apps to Tizen
And that’s exactly where rollApp steps in – our online virtualization technology already allowed us to port over 50 applications to Tizen OS. See how we did it in this handy presentation.
rollApp CEO Vlad Pavlov and CTO Dima Malenko rehearsing their presentation.
During the summit, we unveiled rollApp’s cross-platform development for Tizen, shook hands, smiled a lot, and listened to awesome people like Kirill Danilov, Renat Nyazhemetdinov, Ash Nazir, Kirill Chuvilin among many others with their insights on Unity-Tizen tools, Zvooq for Tizen, Tizen App Store, Android vs Tizen, and even the future of Uber.
You can easily imagine how awesome it was by checking out our photos from the event. Visited #TDSR14? Tag yourself in a photo and give rollApp a like! We’ll see you all next time.
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The State of Tizen Samsung Z: News, Opinions and Hands-On
Tizen, a Linux-based open-source OS, just about to enter the world of mobile platforms. By catapulting more than 50 cloud apps to Tizen Store, we at rollApp are proud to be a significant part of the process. On top of that, we’ve broadened our vision on developing cross-platform cloud applications – as you probably know, previously we launched them on the iPad and Chromebooks.
Just before the Tizen Samsung Z Unpacked Event to be held in Moscow, Russia on July 10, 2014 – where Samsung’s first Tizen Smartphone will be officially launched – we’d like to highlight some major recent advances, turning points and expectations around the smartphone.
So here are our top picks that cover all the major news around Tizen Samsung Z:
Samsung Electronics unveiled the Samsung Z, the first commercially available smartphone powered by the Tizen platform, on July 02, 2014 in San Francisco. Complete with a 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display and a 2.3 GHz Quad-core processor, the Samsung Z makes the perfect choice for consumers who want a differentiated user experience in an efficient and light-weight smartphone. Samsung Z will be available in Russia in the third quarter of 2014.
Ladies and gentlemen, the industry’s first #Tizen Smartphone – the #SamsungZ http://t.co/MyH6rGaqX2
— Samsung Electronics (@SamsungTMRW) June 2, 2014Jonathan Cheng, Wall Street Journal – Samsung Amps Up the Google Love: “The indirect reference is a reminder that, for all the affection Samsung is publicly voicing for Google, even the best of friends go through tough times. If there’s any larger strategy at play, Samsung says, it’s not trying to muscle out Android with Tizen; it’s simply that the company wants to offer consumers all kinds of choices — between Android, Windows Phone and Tizen, for instance.”
Sam Byford, The Verge – Samsung hedges Android bet with first Tizen phone: "The Samsung Z is the first Tizen smartphone, representing a third pillar alongside Samsung’s efforts with Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows Phone.“
Ewan Spence, Forbes – Samsung Releases An Avalanche Of Androids For A Smartphone Summer: "If it is as successful as Samsung hopes (and potentially, as Google fears), then I would expect next year’s batch of low-to-mid range handsets to feature some Tizen powered handsets in the mix.”
Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch – Samsung Outs Its First Tizen-Powered Smartphone: “It is of course fantastically unlikely that Tizen is going to grow to the point where it entirely replaces Android in Samsung’s portfolio. But the platform gives Samsung another string to its bow.”
Ashiq Nazir, TizenExperts: hands-on with Tizen-based Samsung Z:
Michael Sawh, Trusted Reviews – Samsung Tizen OS: 6 Things You Need To Know: “We were quite impressed by Tizen. Samsung has worked with Intel to develop Tizen. It is Linux-based platform built from Nokia and Intel’s ditched MeeGo. Tizen is a HTML5-based operating system. For the user, it means we can expect slicker mobile web applications for phones and tablets.”
Michael Kan, PC World – Tizen OS gets Baidu, ZTE, Softbank and Sprint among 15 new partners: The new partnerships are a sign of growing interest in the mobile OS at a time when Google’s Android is dominating the smartphone market.
Ben Woods, TheNextWeb – Samsung Gear Live and LG G Android Wear smartwatches available to pre-order today: “The decision for Samsung to launch an Android Wear-based smartwatch is an interesting one considering the company recently made the switch to using its own Tizen OS for its second generation Galaxy Gear smartwatches.”
In this video Gameloft shows three of their upcoming games on Tizen - Let’s Golf 3, Real Football, and Asphalt 7:
Another awesome app: Tizengram, Instagram-Style Camera App From Satoru Hashimoto, Japan:
And here’s how rollApp delivers 50+ popular desktop apps on Tizen, from OpenOffice and LibreOffice – the most popular open-source alternatives to Microsoft Office – to graphics tools and games.
See more photos from our presentation in San Francisco at Tizen Developer Conference on June 2-4, 2014.
That’s all for this episode. Tell us about your favorite Tizen resources, tips or insights in comments below or on Facebook: fb.com/rollApp
The 5 Mobile Computing Stories You've (Probably) Missed This Week
It was a huge week for mobile computing – Amazon, Google and Samsung were among the week’s hottest app releases and product/platform launches.
Here’s rollApp’s top five news stories of the week (June 23-27, 2014). Of course, we didn’t include anything the FIFA World Cup-related but, hey, you can always follow Alexi Lalas on Twitter @AlexiLalas.
Without further ado, let’s go.
1. All dates are finally set. rollApp will be launching 50+ applications at Tizen Samsung Z Unpacked Event in Moscow, Russia on July 10, 2014.
From the hands-on with Samsung Z by Ashiq Nazir: “We do not have any lag with the user interface that many android users seem to detest with hardware manufacturers own custom user interface skins that run on top of vanilla android, another reason to come over to Tizen.”
2. Android’s upcoming L release reveals its ‘L Developer Preview’, an early glimpse at the next version of Android. During its I/O keynote, Google showcased “a detailed approach to typography and spacing” and created new design guidelines.
Everything Google announced at Google I/O 2014 in one handy list.
3. Google Play for Education comes to Chromebooks:
“Google Play for Education started with tablets, but teachers told us they wanted to use it to find apps, books, and videos for Chromebooks too. So today we’re expanding Google Play for Education to US K-12 Chromebook schools.” said Pratip Banerji, Product Manager. “Share Chrome apps instantly, with the whole class or with individual students. Soon we’re adding brand new apps from partners.”
4. Amazon released a new device - the Fire Phone: “The new phone’s sexiest feature is Firefly. At a push of a button on the side of the phone, the back camera recognizes products in the real world, with bar codes and other product information, then displays ways to buy the product on Amazon.”
5. Upcoming Linux Foundation and Tizen events announced:
The Tizen Developer Summit in Seoul, Korea November 11-12 and Shanghai, China October 27 - 29, 2014.
If your favourite mobile computing news isn’t here or there’s anything else that you think would be good to be included, let us know in the comments or on Twitter (@rollApp).