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Kyle Fazzari
22 March 2017

Distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps

Internet of Things Article

One of the key tenets of snaps is that they bundle their dependencies. The fact that they’re self-contained helps their transactional-ness: upgrading or rolling back is essentially just a matter of unmounting one snap and mounting the other. However, historically this was also one of their key downsides: every snap must be standalone. For ...


Guest
21 March 2017

When products and digital signage speak the same language

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Dominique Guinard, Co-founder & CTO at EVRYTHNG. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Digital signage is booming. From stores to offices and public buildings, screens are now commonplace. This is a domain our partner Screenly masters, managing 10,000 screens and ...


Thibaut Rouffineau
20 March 2017

Three flaws at the heart of IoT security

Internet of Things Article

This blog has been syndicated from SCMagazine UK, contributed by Thibaut Rouffineau – head of devices marketing. According to the latest estimates by Gartner, the total number of connected devices will reach 6.4 billion by the end of this year. From connected homes, to autonomous vehicles, to futuristic smartdust, the Internet of Things h ...


Canonical
16 March 2017

The Orange Pi community gets a snap store

Internet of Things News

Shenzhen Xunlong Software partners with Canonical to build the Orange Pi App Store Developers can distribute their applications packaged as snaps to Orange Pi owners Hackers and tinkerers can install complex IoT and server projects in seconds Shenzhen Xunlong Software benefits from the existing snap community through the branded store off ...


Tom Callway
16 March 2017

Webinar: Learn the secrets to innovative and scalable VNF deployment

Cloud and server Webinar

Experts from Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, and Fraunhofer FOKUS explain how Open Baton, an open source, carrier-grade NFV Management and Orchestration (MANO) platform can integrate with Canonical’s Juju to easily deploy scalable VNF services. If you’re a service provider interested in understanding the state-of-the-art for orchest ...


Canonical
14 March 2017

NXP and Canonical to demo Ubuntu Core on the LS1043A at Embedded World

Internet of Things News

The LS1043A, NXP’s quad-core ARM 64bit-powered SoC, is built for embedded networking and IoT Gateways with high throughput needs. Ubuntu Core is a versatile operating system for IoT and networking equipment based on snaps, the cross-platform Linux package format. Device manufacturers can use snaps and branded stores to quickly go from dev ...


Canonical
14 March 2017

Introducing Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance)

Canonical announcements Article

  Canonical announced the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) release almost 5 years ago, on April 26, 2012. As with all LTS releases, Canonical has provided ongoing security patches and bug fixes for a period of 5 years. The Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) period will end on Friday, April 28, 2017. Following the end-of-life of Ubunt ...


Maarten Ectors
13 March 2017

The smart multi-personality vending machine

Internet of Things Article

This vending machine is unlike you have seen before. It is a telecom operator in a box. Minutes later it cures the chronic ill via an Uber for Doctors and saves public health care billions. Sell you a house. Be your bank. Anything is possible.   The vending machine we displayed at MWC 2017 was ...


Maarten Ectors
13 March 2017

This elevator catches intruders, saves lives, generates money, …

Internet of Things Article

The world is becoming software defined and most people don’t realise what this means until software apps and app stores invade their day to day objects like elevators. This blog post is about the smartest elevator demoed at MWC17 and the future of elevators with app stores. What happens if we add artificial intelligence to ...


Maarten Ectors
11 March 2017

The cheapest and smartest mobile and IoT base station of MWC17

Internet of Things Article

How to solve the top telecom industry problems (declining revenues, spiralling costs, slow time to market) and revolutionise the wireless industry? Open Source Mobile and IoT Base Stations with App Stores. At MWC15 we presented the smartest top of the rack switch of the show. Many network experts did not believe that the cheapest server ...


Canonical
9 March 2017

Mobile World Congress 2017. One for the records – bigger and better!

Internet of Things Article

Mobile World Congress was one for the record books! For starters, we blew-out last year’s number of visitors to Canonical’s Ubuntu booth. The mixture was consumer targeting businesses looking for device/mobility updates, IoT advances, and innovation around artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality. On the other hand, enterprise b ...