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19 posts from March 2012

Ubuntu: helping drive business insight from big data

By Canonical, 13 March 2012

Today, Big Data isn’t just for big companies, and it isn’t just happening on the web. In fact more and more organisations in multiple sectors are recognising...

Improving Hardware Support in Ubuntu

By Victor Tuson Palau, 7 March 2012

Anthony Wong, Project Technical Lead at Canonical, presented our process for improving hardware support in Ubuntu at our 2011 Hardware Summit. He did such a...

Choosing, moving, wallpapers

By Canonical, 6 March 2012

All the way back in January we kicked off the submissions process for the next released of Ubuntu. We did this using Flickr and since then the group has been...

Notes from the Mobile World Congress 2012

By Canonical, 5 March 2012

Ubuntu and Canonical had a very strong presence at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The main attraction was our Ubuntu for Android prototype...

About Usability Testing – Recruiting

By Canonical, 2 March 2012

Every three months, I conduct benchmark usability testing. I’m calling these tests ‘benchmark testing’ because the aim of these sessions is to measure our...

Testing, testing, testing. It prints!

By Canonical, 2 March 2012

Back in 2008 Nick Ellery noticed that the default printer test page used more ink that it really needed to: Bug #298935 (“test print uses far too much ink”)....

Ubuntu for Android success at Mobile World Congress

By Canonical, 1 March 2012

The Ubuntu booth at Mobile World Congress has been a resounding success. In the first two days of the show alone, over 4,000 delegates visited the stand to...