But Lam believes that the Samsung platform is more power efficient when it uses proprietary software like eye detection, which is constantly working in the background.
The Samsung TV platform can run third-party apps, like a smartphone does, and some of them can even interact with a phone.
This is the first mobile handset to be released on Samsung's new, open mobile platform, Samsung bada, and the cornerstone of the company's commitment to provide a smartphone for every lifestyle.
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The latter is a company-wide philosophy platform Samsung kicked off at CES this year.
Adobe AIR 2.5 for BlackBerry Tablet OS and the Samsung Smart TV platform is expected to be available early 2011.
Samsung's bada platform allows mobile users to simply and easily download an abundance of applications from Samsung Apps, an integrated application store accessible from the device and online.
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Concerns for Apple surfaced overnight, focused on Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller, who criticized Samsung and the Android platform in an interview with Reuters.
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In the same quarter, Google's Android software, which serves as Samsung's operating platform, ran more than seven in ten smartphones around the world.
By providing broad access to solutions based on the latest ARM technology on a single platform, Samsung will enable the next generation of engaging applications.
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Powered by the Android 2.1 platform, Samsung Epic 4G also supports a series of advanced touch screen gestures including multi-touch pinch, long tap and zoom and vertical and horizontal swiping.
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If a Korean service provider does not choose that as a platform, Samsung's ability to market its next-generation telecom products overseas will be hampered, says Eric Hong, Samsung executive vice president for marketing.
Broadcast Interactivity, powered by its automatic content recognition (ACR) technology, SoundPrintTM, will be deployed in Samsung's SyncPlus platform, enabling new opportunities for intelligent content discovery, advertising and engagement, bringing an unprecedented level of interactivity in the living room.
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Suzuki said that it seemed easy for Samsung to come out with its Galaxy Tab tablet because its platform was similar to that of the Samsung Galaxy smartphones.
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In addition, ChatON, Samsung's cross-platform communication service, connects all phone users of any platform into a single community.
It features ChatON, Samsung's unique cross-platform communication service that connects all mobile users into a single community.
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The program will encourage artists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and other innovators to leverage Samsung's Device Solutions Architecture Platform.
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That Samsung looks determined to make the Android platform and Google vanish from users' view, hidden under its own branding and services.
Samsung is also saying that the KNOX platform will retain full compatibility with Android and the ecosystem while engineering fundamental security and management enhancements.
It appears both are at least hedging their bets by jumping on Google's platform, however along with Samsung's upcoming products these could help make Android a default option for connected TV software.
According to OpenX CEO Tim Cadogan, with whom I spoke last week, OpenX served 4 trillion ad impressions last year, not a bad basis for Samsung to show the way in cross platform ads.
The open-source platform has proved hugely successful for Samsung, which is now second only to Apple in the global smartphone race.
The platform, which will work on Samsung's mobile devices and Smart TVs, serves up recommendations and even hones its ability to gauge your interest in programs the more often its used.
Although Globalfoundries was not able to bring a FinFET transistor to market as fast as Intel, it has benefited from a decade of work on these 3D structures carried out by IBM and contributed to the Common Platform, which includes Globalfoundries and Samsung as well as IBM.
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Samsung introduced the fourth version of its connected TV platform at CES, and signed partnerships with Hulu and Adobe.
According to Samsung, KNOX is a new Android-based platform designed from the ground up with security in mind to address the shortcomings of the current open source Android platform.
It is drawn by Apple into a different innovation forum, the one described above where Samsung has to focus on the software, the platform and the services it will deliver, or which it will partner to get delivered.
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The company is proving that manufacturing can be a platform for extensive, rapid innovation (Samsung makes its own chips as well as innovating in display technology, and is moving into lighting and medical technology) but it is also illustrating something else.
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To further its ad network ambitions Samsung Ventures has invested heavily in Open X, a platform for serving ads across devices including TV and mobile.
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Instead of being placed head to head against Samsung in the tablet wars, Apple goes to war against an entire platform.
While Samsung pushes ahead on attracting apps to its Smart TVs using its own platform and LG, Sony and Vizio align with Google TV, there are still reasons to believe that the smart TV will fail to have tremendous impact as Switched On discussed last year.
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