Samsung Merging Its Bada OS With Intel-Backed Tizen Project

Samsung is merging its bada smartphone operating system (shown here) with the Tizen open-source OS it is creating with Intel.

“We have an effort that will merge bada and Tizen,” said Tae-Jin Kang, Senior Vice President of Samsung’s Contents Planning Team in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Kang said he didn’t know when the work would be complete but that it was already underway.

When the integration is finished, Tizen will support mobile applications written with bada’s SDK (software development kit). That support will include backwards compatibility for previously published bada apps...