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187 posts from 2013
Ubuntu Edge thank you
By Canonical, 22 August 2013
Hi everyone So ends a crazy month. We’ve broken records, we’ve been written and talked about across the world, we’ve worn out our F5 keys, and we’ve learned a...
Music app: focus on the content
By Canonical, 20 August 2013
Music apps that allow users to switch between player and queue mode can be quite complex. Some challenges of music apps in general: Deep navigation through...
Usability testing: how do we design effective tasks
By Canonical, 16 August 2013
Previously, Charline Poirier provided an excellent post about how to recruit representative participants for usability testing. To continue the story, we are...
An Ubuntu Edge message from Mark Shuttleworth
By Canonical, 13 August 2013
Thanks in large part to all of you, the Ubuntu Edge campaign response has been incredible. In just over three weeks more than 20,000 people have backed the...
Crowdfunding-Kampagne für Ubuntu Edge bricht Rekorde
By Canonical, 8 August 2013
Großartige Unterstützung durch Technologie-Enthusiasten aus Deutschland Canonical hat mit seiner Crowdfunding-Initiative zur Entwicklung von Ubuntu Edge...
Ubuntu Edge now $695, thanks to major industry backing
By Canonical, 8 August 2013
With 14 days to go, it’s time for our biggest announcement yet. From now until the end of the campaign, we’re fixing the price of the Ubuntu Edge at $695! No...
Bloomberg bets big on the Ubuntu Edge
By Canonical, 7 August 2013
The record-breaking Ubuntu Edge crowdfunding campaign has its first major corporate backer, Bloomberg LP. Bloomberg, the financial information, analytics and...
UbuntuKylin steals the show at OCOW Summit
By Jon Melamut, 6 August 2013
UbuntuKylin was awarded the Number 1 China Open Source Project for 2013 at the eighth Open Source China – Open Source World Summit in Beijing at Beihang University.
Calendar App Visuals
By Canonical, 6 August 2013
Over the past few weeks we’ve been exploring visual directions for the calendar app. It’s a pretty exciting opportunity to create something fresh and at the...
When it comes to scale, size doesn’t matter
By Mark Baker, 2 August 2013
This is the first in a series of articles about the best ways to manage scale out workloads. Scale. We hear a lot about managing scale being one of the key...
Join us at Mobile Monday in San Francisco
By marina-engelvuori, 2 August 2013
And learn more about Ubuntu Edge Mobile Monday Silicon Valley is hosting a meetup in San Francisco on August 12th at 6pm. The session will be “Challenges in...