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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.


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 ...


Canonical
26 July 2013

Ubuntu Edge: Design process

Ubuntu Featured

Right… so where should we start? First post. Hello, my name is Chee, and I am an industrial designer. In this post I will share some materials, stories and process during the development of the Ubuntu Edge.   We started off by pulling the key elements of the Suru theme, and expanded on that, in ...


Canonical
25 July 2013

Interested in Ceph Cloud storage? Come and join us at a Ceph Day.

Ubuntu Article

We are pleased to announce Canonical are participating in Inktank’s forthcoming Ceph Days, taking place on: – 1st August – New York, NY – 12th September – Santa Clara, CA – 9th October – London, UK Attendees will get hands on through a Ceph installation workshop, and talk with  experts in open source storage and ...


Canonical
24 July 2013

Bodega Aurrera stores shipping HP PCs with Ubuntu preinstalled

Desktop News

Good news for Ubuntu users in Mexico! Walmart-owned Bodega Aurrera has teamed up with HP and is now selling PCs preloaded with Ubuntu across Mexico. Consumers can now get their hands on the PCs and notebooks in-store or through the Bodega Aurrera website at http://www.bodegaurrera.com.mx/. The HP Pavillion PCs preloaded with Ubuntu 12.04 ...


Canonical
24 July 2013

Ubuntu Touch SDK beta

Phone and tablet News

Today we are announcing the Ubuntu SDK Beta. The SDK provides a set of APIs that includes the UI toolkit, enabling developers to create responsive and interactive applications with a native Ubuntu mobile UI. Qt Creator is an IDE with a visual interface for writing, testing and deploy applications; its API documentation and a developer ...


Canonical
24 July 2013

Could your startup use some cloud magic?

Cloud and server Article

As a small startup, it’s frustrating to watch the big companies pushing code to production multiple times a day. In an ideal world we’d all be able to continuously deploy, but few startups have the time or skills required. That’s where we’d like to help. We’re looking to collaborate with startups in building a best-in-class ...


Canonical
22 July 2013

Ubuntu Edge

Phone and tablet News

Canonical targets crowdfunding record with campaign to accelerate mobile technology with Ubuntu Edge superphone / PC combination $32m campaign to deliver world’s first truly converged personal computing device based on Ubuntu phone OS and pioneering hardware. Ubuntu Edge harnesses crowdfunding to accelerate innovation in smartphone and co ...


Canonical
22 July 2013

Juju GUI for continuous deployment/integration and cloud orchestration

Cloud and server News

Juju, the leading tool for continuous deployment, continuous integration (CI/CD), and cloud-neutral orchestration, now has a refreshed GUI with smoother workflows for integration professionals spinning up many services across clouds like Amazon EC2 and a range of public OpenStack providers. The new GUI speeds up service design – conceptua ...


Canonical
18 July 2013

Shorts visual exploration

Ubuntu Featured

Hey After all the work we have done on the Rituals app designs it was time to start exploring other core apps. I thought it would be good to share with you our recent exploration of the RSS Reader App. Please note that those are only the key screens and settings are not covered yet. ...


Canonical
16 July 2013

MTN Group joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

Phone and tablet News

The newest member of Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group is MTN Group, Africa’s largest multinational mobile telecoms provider operating in 21 countries across the region. MTN has a significant number of  business customers who can benefit from Ubuntu’s convergence and security capabilities. Pieter Verkade, Chief Commercial Officer at MTN Group ...


Canonical
12 July 2013

See your photos and illustrations in Ubuntu 13.10

Ubuntu Design

Each cycle we get together as a community to select some fine default wallpapers for the new release of Ubuntu. Your pictures and illustrations could be in the 13.10! ...


Canonical
11 July 2013

Verizon Wireless joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

Phone and tablet News

Verizon Wireless is the latest member to join the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group. Verizon Wireless is the largest mobile network operator in the US and being able to work closely with them gives us an opportunity to shape Ubuntu into the most compelling new, alternative platform for mobile.  Samir Vaidya from the Device Technology team ...