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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.


Canonical
17 February 2014

Update on Ubuntu for smartphones

Phone and tablet Article

Everyone is welcome to join our Town Hall Hangout this Wednesday, 19 February at 16.50 UK / 17.50 Europe / 08.50 Pacific / 11.50 Eastern. Just visit: http://ubuntuonair.com/ to hear an update about Ubuntu for smartphones and direct your burning questions to the team: Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Canonical and Ubuntu Cristian Parrino, VP ...


Canonical
14 February 2014

Canonical/Ubuntu enables instant NFV

Cloud and server Article

Mobile World Congress (MWC) taking place in Barcelona next week is arguably the biggest event in the Telco and Operator calendar attracting upwards of 72,000 visitors. It is renowned as the venue where the leading vendors launch new devices and Ubuntu may or may not have some announcements of its own in this area. Less ...


Canonical
12 February 2014

App Design Clinic #8

Ubuntu User Experience

This week we dedicated the short clinic to sizing, and ensuring widgets and items are usable (touchable). We covered… The Ubuntu grid unit – for more information, see http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/qml/sdk-1.0/UbuntuUserInterfaceToolkit.resolution-independence/) Minimum touch target size – 4×4 gu A sneak preview of the updated widgets co ...


Canonical
12 February 2014

Smart joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

Phone and tablet News

In its efforts to further democratize access to the Internet, Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), the leading wireless services provider in the Philippines, has joined the Carrier Advisory Group (CAG) of Ubuntu, a global forum set up to give operators the opportunity to influence the development of smartphones powered by the world’s most ...


Canonical
10 February 2014

A bit of summer in the middle of winter

Ubuntu Notes

In January when the winter weather was at its worst in London we packed our laptops, designs and prototypes and headed to Cape Town, South Africa for Client Platform Sprint. This design sprint was a mid cycle checkpoint and the target was to get some important 14.04 designs, including Dash and Right edge swipe, reviewed ...


Canonical
10 February 2014

Apache Syncope sponsor, Tirasa, shows instant IDM on Juju

Cloud and server Article

“If you want to quickly switch to the cloud, then you want to look at Juju.”, says Tirasa. Tirasa is the main sponsor behind the Apache Syncope project. Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in J2EE technology and released under Apache 2.0 license. By moving Syncope ...


Canonical
6 February 2014

Vodafone joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

Phone and tablet News

Ubuntu has gained momentum for its phone offering over the last year and has attracted much interest from the mobile industry at large. So, today, we’re announcing Vodafone as the latest addition to our Carrier Advisory Group. Vodafone Group is part of the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group (CAG). As a member of the CAG, Vodafone ...


Canonical
1 February 2014

MWC 2014 online press pack

Phone and tablet News

Ubuntu phones coming to market Canonical has signed agreements with mobile device manufacturers bq (Spain) and Meizu (China) to bring Ubuntu smartphones to consumers globally. Canonical is working with these partners to ship the first Ubuntu devices on the latest hardware in 2014. About Ubuntu on phones and its new partners Canonical anno ...


Canonical
29 January 2014

App Design Clinic #7

Ubuntu Design

This week in App Design Clinic #7 we reviewed 3 apps: SocketWorld (for finding and comparing plug types), Flashback (an entertainment app using Trackt) and Capitals (a game about capital cities). For this session we covered questions such as – First use prompting and introductions – Margins and alignment – App structure, linking from one ...


Canonical
17 January 2014

Instant eCommerce

Cloud and server Article

Christmas shopping habbits have changed recently. Most people just buy gifts online to avoid endless queues. A lot of small and medium companies are looking at entering the eCommerce space. However at the moment there are three choices: You choose a hosted solution with direct lock-in. You choose an expensive commercial option. You build ...


Canonical
13 January 2014

Sheets transition

Ubuntu Featured

We’ve recently been exploring how the share transitions should work when you’re previewing a photo in gallery mode. Our main goal is that there is a consistent transition for sharing photos across the phone. This is the latest iteration of the explorations we’ve been doing, and, as such, these transitions are still work in progress, ...


Canonical
10 January 2014

Ubuntu scores highest in UK Gov security assessment

Desktop Article

UK government security arm CESG has published a report of its assessment on the security of all ‘End User Device’ operating systems. Its assessment compared 11 desktop and mobile operating systems across 12 categories including: VPN, disk encryption, and authentication. These criteria are roughly equivalent to a standard set of enterprise ...