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41 posts from February 2017

Community Initiative UBports launches Ubuntu Fairphone 2

By Canonical, 8 February 2017

The Ubuntu Community UBports has one mission: to have the open source software Ubuntu on every device, starting with smartphones. UBports’ actions are based...

Who should bear the cost of IoT security: consumers or vendors?

By Canonical, 7 February 2017

Anyone using the internet in Europe and the US on 21st October last year experienced what economists call an externality. It arrived in the form of a massive...

10 crazy IoT ideas that can soon become real

By Maarten Ectors, 6 February 2017

1) Smart cities: revenue generating fountains What if instead of being a cost to cities, fountains become a revenue generator? Crazy idea? Just put the same...

Cloud Chatter: January 2017

By James Donner, 3 February 2017

Welcome to the first edition of 2017. In this issue we showcase what you can expect from us and invite you to meet with us at Mobile World Congress if you’re...

Snapcraft 2.26 has been released

By Sergio Schvezov, 3 February 2017

Hello snapcrafters! We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.26 of snapcraft has been released: https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.26...

The first consumer device to run snaps: Nextcloud box

By Amrisha Prashar, 3 February 2017

The Nextcloud box is a private cloud and IoT solution for home users, giving consumers a way to take back control over their personal data. It’s an...

Run scripts during snapcraft builds with “scriptlets”

By David Callé, 2 February 2017

Please note: this blog post is over 5 years old and is out of date. Scriptlets have been superseded by Overrides. If you have snapped an application, or tried...

January’s reading list

By Inayaili de León Persson, 1 February 2017

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the first month of 2017: A Guide to 2017 Conferences Information Literacy Is a Design Problem Pattern...