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Canonical
8 August 2013

Ubuntu Edge now $695, thanks to major industry backing

Phone and tablet News

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 limited quantities, no more price changes. You wanted a more affordable Edge, and now you’ve got it. How are we able to do this? ...


Canonical
7 August 2013

Bloomberg bets big on the Ubuntu Edge

Phone and tablet News

The record-breaking Ubuntu Edge crowdfunding campaign has its first major corporate backer, Bloomberg LP. Bloomberg, the financial information, analytics and news leader, pledged $80,000 towards the campaign in exchange for the Enterprise 100 perk, which includes a batch of 100 Ubuntu Edge devices and access to a range of Canonical worksh ...


Jon Melamut
6 August 2013

UbuntuKylin steals the show at OCOW Summit

Ubuntu Article

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. ...


Canonical
6 August 2013

Calendar App Visuals

Ubuntu User Experience

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 same time useful. In this post I’ll take you through some of the directions we’re looking at right now and where we hope to eventually go. At this stage ...


Mark Baker
2 August 2013

When it comes to scale, size doesn’t matter

Cloud and server Article

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 challenges in a world where numbers can grow very large very fast. Whether it’s huge amounts of data being collected for analysis, websites that ...


marina-engelvuori
2 August 2013

Join us at Mobile Monday in San Francisco

Phone and tablet News

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 Innovating Mobile Devices and Wearables”, and is sponsored by Canonical. The development cycle for robust operating systems and hardware is not just a simple two-week cycle for ...


Canonical
1 August 2013

T-Mobile USA joins the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

Phone and tablet News

T-Mobile USA is the newest member of the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group. T-Mobile USA reaches almost 300 million American consumers and business people today. As a member of the CAG, T-mobile USA will join discussions to influence the development of Ubuntu for smartphones. National and multi-national carriers are invited to join the CAG. M ...


Canonical
1 August 2013

A successful (and busy!) week at OSCON

Cloud and server Article

Last week, we attended OSCON in Portland, Oregon and had a jam-packed event! We presented seven sessions throughout the week, including Community Management Training, Service Orchestration In The Cloud With Juju, Ubuntu Phone and Tablet – Intro to Design and Development, Burnout and Bickering: a Community Manager’s Guide to Conflict, Hack ...


Victor Tuson Palau
1 August 2013

LastPass backs Ubuntu Edge campaign

Phone and tablet News

The Ubuntu Edge campaign has new backing from LastPass, provider of the leading online secure password management tool. ...


James Troup
30 July 2013

Ubuntu Forums are back up and a post mortem

Ubuntu Canonical News

As announced previously, there was a security breach on the Ubuntu Forums. The Ubuntu Forums are now back up and running. What follows is a detailed post mortem of the breach and corrective actions taken by the Canonical IS team. In summary, the root cause was a combination of a compromised individual account and the ...


Canonical
30 July 2013

Telstra joins the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

Phone and tablet News

Following from our recent Carrier Advisory Group announcement, we’re delighted to announce Telstra has joined the group to shape the priorities of the Ubuntu team delivering our mobile experience. Telstra is recognised for its focus on the corporate market, a key audience for Ubuntu, with its strong security profile and convergence capabi ...