During the month of October, there are a couple of developer conferences happening. Samsung is resuming what had been their regular Developers conference (there wasn’t one in 2020, for obvious reasons). Like so many other conferences, this one is going to be online on 26 October. Details of what will be in it haven’t been shared yet, but I noticed a few things from the iconography of their promotional video.

he Tizen logo is present, specifically on a representation of a TV. It looks that Samsung has abandoned the Tizen OS for anything else. They generally don’t make an announcement that they are sunsetting a technology and instead opt to quietly let it disappear. A few months ago Google made the ambiguous announcement that Samsung and Google were combining their wearable operating systems into a single platform while not directly saying that Tizen was going away. Just before the release of the Gear 4 watch (which runs Android Wear, not Tizen) Samsung made an announcement that they were still supporting Tizen. But with no new products on the horizon and the reduction in support in the store, this looks more like a phased product sunset.

Some of the other products suggested by the imagery include wearables, Smart Things (home automation), Bixby (voice assistant) and Samsung Health.

October 12-14, Google is hosting their Cloud Next conference. Registration for this conference is open now, and available at no cost. Google has made the session catalog available. The session categories include AI/Machine Learning, Application Development, Security, and more.

And last, if you have an interest in the USA’s developing responses to technology issues, this Thursday the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is holding a hearing with Facebook’s head of safety over some recent reports published by the Wall Street Journal about the impact of it’s apps on younger audiences. The hearing (with live stream) will be Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 10:30am EDT. The livestream will be available at www.commerce.senate.gov.

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