Francisco De Jesùs.
AccuWeather today
announced it has joined the Tizen Association Partner Program to help
further the development and deployment of the Tizen Operating System
(OS) platform. The Tizen Association is an industry consortium that
supports the development of an open-source software platform and
operating system – Tizen – for a wide range of connected devices. As a
Tizen Association Partner, AccuWeather will have the opportunity to join
relevant Tizen Association Working Groups and to participate in Tizen
Association meetings, giving the company more insight and potential
input into the development of the Tizen OS.
"AccuWeather is very pleased to work with Tizen to bring weather with
Superior Accuracy™ to users of mobile devices of all types," said Steven Smith,
Chief Digital Officer for AccuWeather, Inc. "Working with world-leading
partners on the Tizen platform fulfills our goal of delivering the
weather that helps people all over the world make better decisions and
run their lives."
The Tizen Association brings together some of the world's largest and
most innovative companies developing products, services, software and
apps for the growing ecosystem of connected devices. From smartphones
and tablets to appliances and in-vehicle infotainment systems, Tizen
Association partner companies around the globe are collaborating to
build an independent open-source platform that drives innovation across a
number of product and services segments.
"I am delighted to welcome AccuWeather to our ever-growing membership," said Ryoichi Sugimura,
a Tizen Association Board Member from NTT DOCOMO. "Their contribution
will support the development of the Tizen OS and ecosystem, and further
drive Tizen's vision of building and supporting a cross-architecture,
open source software platform that spans across multiple device
segments."
The Partner Program officially launched in November 2013
with 36 members including eBay, KONAMI, McAfee, Panasonic and others.
New members include AccuWeather as well as mobile game publishers,
operators, application developers, mobile software management vendors
and major telecommunications companies.
With dozens of members worldwide, the TA Partner Program includes
best-of-breed technology partners with the shared commitment to drive
development of the Tizen project and platform.
AccuWeather, along with Tizen, will be part of the Mobile World Congress 2014 conference in Barcelona, Spain.
Find AccuWeather demoing at Tizen booth H65 in Hall 8.1 to learn how
they are advancing forecasting information that helps users make
decisions and improve their lives.
About AccuWeather, Inc. and AccuWeather.com
Every day over a
billion people worldwide rely on AccuWeather to help them plan their
lives, protect their businesses, and get more from their day.
AccuWeather provides hourly forecasts with Superior Accuracy™ for nearly
3 million locations worldwide, with customized content and engaging
video presentations available on smart phones, tablets, free wired and
mobile internet sites, connected TVs, and Internet appliances, as well
as via radio, television, and newspapers. Founded in 1962 by Dr. Joel N. Myers
- a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society who was recognized as
one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur
Magazine's Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs - AccuWeather also delivers a
wide range of highly-customized enterprise solutions to media, business,
government, and institutions, as well as news, weather content, and
video for more than 72,000 third-party websites.
Visit www.AccuWeather.com for additional information.
About Tizen
Tizen is an open source project managed by the
Linux Foundation. The goal of the project is to build and support a
cross-architecture, open source software platform that spans across
multiple device segments, including smartphone, tablet, Smart TV,
appliances, netbook and in-vehicle infotainment systems. The Tizen
Association is an industry consortium of operators, device manufacturers
and their suppliers, independent software developers and mobile
application developers. For more information on the Tizen Project,
please visit www.tizen.org. For more information on the Tizen Association, please visit www.tizenassociation.org.
For more information contact:
Justin Roberti / 814.235.8756 / roberti@accuweather.com
AccuWeather, Inc. / 385 Science Park Road / State College, PA 16803
Golin Harris / 909 Third Avenue, 9th Floor / New York, NY 10022
SOURCE AccuWeather.
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