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17 December 2013

Ubuntu Desktop: a proven, leading-edge, low-cost OS perfect for education

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Ubuntu is becoming more and more popular in the education sector globally. Every day millions of students conduct research, produce assignments, correspond with each other and their teaching staff, and do many other things using the Ubuntu desktop. Why do governments, universities, schools and learners choose Ubuntu? ...

Canonical
17 December 2013

Juju: a robust cloud strategy built on choice

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu is the reference platform for scale out computing.  Some manifestations of scale out computing include: edge of network workloads, dev/test environments, big data (Hadoop), and Cloud (OpenStack).  Not only do all these next-generation workloads run on top of Ubuntu but what’s truly amazing is you can deploy and orchestrate them wit ...

Canonical
11 December 2013

Ubuntu and HP: a successful team in the education sector

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu and Hewlett-Packard have shipped over one and a half million laptops directly into education. These were bought by both individuals, and institutions. In India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh the government knows that investing in laptops and making them readily available to students is a powerful way to help their knowledge econ ...

Canonical
10 December 2013

More options for app development in Ubuntu on phones with Apache Cordova

Phone and tablet Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical opens the doors to over 400,000 web developers with the announcement that Apache Cordova 3.3 will support Ubuntu. This makes it really easy for developers to bring their existing Cordova mobile apps to Ubuntu on smartphones. PhoneGap is a mobile application development framework, based on the open source Apache Cordova project. ...

Canonical
9 December 2013

Open source economics | Ubuntu at Le Web 2013, Paris

Phone and tablet Ubuntu tech blog

Cost and influence on product development are widely accepted and essential considerations when bringing innovative technological products to market. Today community is a new and equally important factor. Conventional wisdom is that open source delivers the best results in all cases, so why isn’t true openness playing a bigger role in the ...

Canonical
9 December 2013

Pioneering community develops app for Evernote

Phone and tablet Ubuntu tech blog

Over 300 Ubuntu community developers registered their interest and willingness to work on the open-source Evernote-powered app for Ubuntu on phones, following a call for members back in September. A team of 10 have been finalised and work has begun, the scope of the project defined and initial wireframes designed. This project is pioneeri ...

Canonical
5 December 2013

App Design Clinic #6

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We have been running the app design clinic every two weeks to answer any questions from community designers and developers on the apps they are working on! For this session we talked about the community submitted convergence designs for file manager and clock app (thanks everyone!) as well as answering some questions from our Canonical ...

Canonical
5 December 2013

The next decade of innovation | Ubuntu at Le Web 2013, Paris

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Over the last decade, we’ve seen the arrival of the first smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and other connected devices; the Web completely transformed with the introduction of the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia; cloud services, music and video streaming were all introduced; millions of apps were developed; and the combination of all ...

Canonical
4 December 2013

Ubuntu helps millions of Indian students to learn

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu and its hardware partners like HP are at the forefront of supplying computers to Indian students. Government in India understands that IT literacy will help drive the already fast-growing Indian economy into the sustainably profitable knowledge-based sectors vital for its future.  To enable this transformation they’ve invested in c ...

Canonical
4 December 2013

The Weather Channel comes to Ubuntu on smartphones

Phone and tablet Ubuntu tech blog

The Ubuntu phone is developing fast. Today, it includes all the functionality you’d expect from a smartphone and, with growing support from App partners, relevant apps will be included on Ubuntu smartphones from launch. We’re working with The Weather Channel to ensure its popular weather app will available for Ubuntu users from the moment ...

Canonical
3 December 2013

App Design Clinic #5

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Over the last few months we have been running the App Design Clinic and we want to thank you for all your submissions, contribution and feedback! The Design Clinic happens every two weeks and the last one co-incided with vUDS, so we included more information on general app design as well as answering quesitons. Here’s ...

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