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26 February 2014

Announcing the third Ubuntu app showdown contest!

Phone and tablet News

Today we announce the launch of our third Ubuntu App Showdown contest! We are excited to bring you yet another engaging developer competition, where the Ubuntu app developer community brings innovative and interesting new apps for Ubuntu on mobile devices. Contestants will have six weeks to build and publish their apps using the new Ubunt ...

Canonical
21 February 2014

Ubuntu looks stunning on phones and tablets at MWC 2014

Phone and tablet Article

The latest development of Ubuntu for phones and tablets is on show at this year’s Mobile World Congress – including the visually stunning “scopes”, a new mobile UI paradigm. Ubuntu has announced partnerships with Meizu, a hot manufacturer of phones in China, and BQ, a specialist European phone manufacturer, to bring the first range of ...

Mark Baker
20 February 2014

When it comes to cloud and scale out, Ubuntu has the winning model

Ubuntu open source

Two of the most frequently asked questions about Ubuntu and Canonical are: * So, just how do you make money when Ubuntu is free? and * Ubuntu is great for developers, but is it really suitable for ‘enterprise use’? We’re trying to do things differently, so we’re not surprised by these questions. What many people ...

Mark Baker
20 February 2014

Canonical welcomes Joyent to its Certified Public Cloud Programme

Cloud and server News

Launching applications and workloads in the cloud should be a seamless experience, so today we announced a partnership with Joyent to bring optimised and fully supported Ubuntu server images to users of Joyent’s cloud platform. Ubuntu is the most popular guest OS in the cloud and combined with Joyent’s High Performance platform developers ...

Canonical
19 February 2014

Canonical announces first partners to ship Ubuntu phones

Phone and tablet News

bq and Meizu sign agreements to deliver and ship Ubuntu phones Online campaigns with bq and Meizu will make Ubuntu phones available globally Strong support for Ubuntu devices has also been received from carriers worldwide 19th February 2014, London: Canonical today announces it has signed agreements with mobile device manufacturers bq (ww ...

Canonical
18 February 2014

Growing app ecosystem for Ubuntu phones

Phone and tablet News

It is an exciting time for Ubuntu on phones, with the ecosystem growing positively. We are delighted to announce new partnerships across key app categories from those that bring entertainment and productivity, to developer tools as well as partners helping bring your apps to Ubuntu. Our partners will support Ubuntu on phones at launch to ...

Canonical
17 February 2014

Update on Ubuntu for smartphones

Phone and tablet Article

Everyone is welcome to join our Town Hall Hangout this Wednesday, 19 February at 16.50 UK / 17.50 Europe / 08.50 Pacific / 11.50 Eastern. Just visit: http://ubuntuonair.com/ to hear an update about Ubuntu for smartphones and direct your burning questions to the team: Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Canonical and Ubuntu Cristian Parrino, VP ...

Canonical
14 February 2014

Canonical/Ubuntu enables instant NFV

Cloud and server Article

Mobile World Congress (MWC) taking place in Barcelona next week is arguably the biggest event in the Telco and Operator calendar attracting upwards of 72,000 visitors. It is renowned as the venue where the leading vendors launch new devices and Ubuntu may or may not have some announcements of its own in this area. Less ...

Jon Melamut
14 February 2014

Ubuntu Kylin booms in China with over 1,300,000 downloads in less than

Desktop News

The Chinese love Ubuntu Kylin, a version of Ubuntu optimised for them. Its popularity has built quickly with 400,000 downloads after its first release in April 2013 and a rise to over 1,300,000 new downloads after its second release in October. That’s impressive for a downloadable operating system since most consumers in China, the world’ ...

Canonical
12 February 2014

App Design Clinic #8

Ubuntu User Experience

This week we dedicated the short clinic to sizing, and ensuring widgets and items are usable (touchable). We covered… The Ubuntu grid unit – for more information, see http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/qml/sdk-1.0/UbuntuUserInterfaceToolkit.resolution-independence/) Minimum touch target size – 4×4 gu A sneak preview of the updated widgets co ...

Canonical
12 February 2014

Smart joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

Phone and tablet News

In its efforts to further democratize access to the Internet, Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), the leading wireless services provider in the Philippines, has joined the Carrier Advisory Group (CAG) of Ubuntu, a global forum set up to give operators the opportunity to influence the development of smartphones powered by the world’s most ...

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