Samsung Hires One Of Android's Most Notorious Hackers
Samsung Mobile has hired Steve Kondik aka Cyanogen, known as one of the most notorious and successful Android Hackers, for an undisclosed amount as a Software Engineer. Looks like with the heating competition in the mobile handset space Samsung has opted to hunt down talent, while others are stockpiling patents.
Kondik is most prominent as the creator of CyanogenMod, an after-market customized firmware that provides new features and functionality to the Android platform. The Cyanogen firmware furnishes more than 40 different Android devices and as of mid-July 2011, it has been downloaded and installed on more than half a million devices.
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