Qt Partners with LG to make better IVI
Monday, January 28, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
The Qt Company announced a partnership with LG Electronics Vehicle Component Solutions Company to enhance LG Vehicle Component’s development of highly advanced in-car experiences. The new collaboration expands The Qt Company’s long-time partnership with LG Consumer Electronics to also cover software development of in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems for a ...
AllSeen Alliance merges with Open Connectivity Foundation for the good of IoT
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF), sponsor of the IoTivity open source project and AllSeen Alliance, which provides the AllJoyn open source IoT framework, announced that the two organizations’ boards have approved a merger under the OCF name and bylaws. This merger will advance interoperability between connected devices from both groups, enabling the full operating...
Smartphone Market Grows 25 percent While Samsung Loses Grip on Android Market
Monday, November 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker for the third quarter of 2014, increased emphasis on emerging market smartphone releases drove global smartphone shipments above 300 million units for the second consecutive quarter. According to preliminary data, vendors shipped a total of 327.6 million units during the ...
Smart TV Alliance Offers App Developers New Version of Universal SDK
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The Smart TV Alliance has released v4.0 of its universal SDK which is available through the Alliance’s Common Developer Portal providing a “build once, launch everywhere” system for Smart TV apps.The Smart TV Alliance was launched in 2012 by founding members LG Electronics, TP Vision and Toshiba. One of the main purposes of the organization is to streamline smart TV app...
LG Debuts QCircle and QPair SDKs for the LG G3 Smartphone
Sunday, June 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
LG Electronics has announced the availability of its new QCircle and QPair SDKs, enabling Android developers to hook into UI features unique to the LG G3. Joining LG’s QSlide Function and QRemote SDK, which are also based on features inherent to LG devices, the LG QCircle and QPair SDKs provide a new opportunity for developers to tap into LG’s G series smartph...
Smart TV Alliance’s New Common App Developer Portal is Now Available
Sunday, June 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Developers interested in creating apps for Smart TV’s can now use a single, integrated process to publish their apps to compliant Smart TV Alliance members’ smart TVs through the Smart TV Alliance Common Developer Portal.The Smart TV Alliance was launched in 2012 by founding members LG Electronics, TP Vision and Toshiba. The organization has worked to create a “bui...
Google Believes it Will Rule Smart Wearable App Market With New SDK
Thursday, March 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Sundar Pichai with Google has dropped the news that Google will release an SDK for the wearable’s market in a couple of weeks. He discussed the SDK during a presentation at SWSX on Sunday.It’s the latest salvo in the war for app domination by the two biggest players in the market. Last week Apple launched CarPlay with Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Hyunda...
LG to Launch webOS Platform for Smart TV Apps
Monday, January 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
LG Electronics has announced that webOS, which was purchased from Hewlett-Packard in March last year, has been reinvented and reintroduced as LG’s new Smart TV platform. The webOS platform will be implemented in more than 70 percent of LG’s Smart TVs in 2014. The Linux-based webOS was initially developed and launched by Palm in 2009 and the plat...
App Developers Will Find it a Little Easier to Submit Apps for Smart TVs
Sunday, January 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
We reported in September that the Smart TV Alliance was creating a single app developer submission process to launch apps across a number of Smart TV formats as well as releasing a new SDK 2.5 that will facilitate multi-screen app development.The companies behind the Alliance, led by LG Electronics, TP Vision and Toshiba, realize that the battle for developers...
