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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
29 January 2014

App Design Clinic #7

Ubuntu Design

This week in App Design Clinic #7 we reviewed 3 apps: SocketWorld (for finding and comparing plug types), Flashback (an entertainment app using Trackt) and Capitals (a game about capital cities). For this session we covered questions such as – First use prompting and introductions – Margins and alignment – App structure, linking from one ...

Canonical
17 January 2014

Instant eCommerce

Cloud and server Article

Christmas shopping habbits have changed recently. Most people just buy gifts online to avoid endless queues. A lot of small and medium companies are looking at entering the eCommerce space. However at the moment there are three choices: You choose a hosted solution with direct lock-in. You choose an expensive commercial option. You build ...

Canonical
13 January 2014

Sheets transition

Ubuntu Featured

We’ve recently been exploring how the share transitions should work when you’re previewing a photo in gallery mode. Our main goal is that there is a consistent transition for sharing photos across the phone. This is the latest iteration of the explorations we’ve been doing, and, as such, these transitions are still work in progress, ...

Canonical
10 January 2014

Ubuntu scores highest in UK Gov security assessment

Desktop Article

UK government security arm CESG has published a report of its assessment on the security of all ‘End User Device’ operating systems. Its assessment compared 11 desktop and mobile operating systems across 12 categories including: VPN, disk encryption, and authentication. These criteria are roughly equivalent to a standard set of enterprise ...

Canonical
6 January 2014

New year links

Ubuntu Notes

Happy new year! Here are a couple of links that have been flying around the London office since we returned. The Verge did a recap of their most influential people of 2013.   And there’s a report from JWT pointing at some nice trends, manifestations and insights for 2014 (thank you, Daniel, for the link). ...

Canonical
23 December 2013

Messaging interaction

Ubuntu Featured

We’ve currently been working on user interaction for sending and deleting multiple SMSs and we thought it would be nice to show you where we’re going with it. Here are some of things that we’ve had to consider when making these interactions user friendly: making sure the transitions fit within our paper metaphor — for ...

Canonical
20 December 2013

Making the world more secure, instantly

Cloud and server Article

Nobody likes to remember lots of different passwords. This is why most enterprises have implemented single sign-on (SSO) solutions. You just sign in one time and can use all the company’s web resources and applications. The problem comes when employees use easy passwords or share their passwords, either knowingly or unknowingly. The solut ...

Canonical
17 December 2013

Ubuntu Desktop: a proven, leading-edge, low-cost OS perfect for education

Desktop Article

Ubuntu is becoming more and more popular in the education sector globally. Every day millions of students conduct research, produce assignments, correspond with each other and their teaching staff, and do many other things using the Ubuntu desktop. Why do governments, universities, schools and learners choose Ubuntu? ...

Canonical
17 December 2013

Juju: a robust cloud strategy built on choice

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu is the reference platform for scale out computing.  Some manifestations of scale out computing include: edge of network workloads, dev/test environments, big data (Hadoop), and Cloud (OpenStack).  Not only do all these next-generation workloads run on top of Ubuntu but what’s truly amazing is you can deploy and orchestrate them wit ...

Canonical
11 December 2013

Ubuntu and HP: a successful team in the education sector

Desktop Article

Ubuntu and Hewlett-Packard have shipped over one and a half million laptops directly into education. These were bought by both individuals, and institutions. In India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh the government knows that investing in laptops and making them readily available to students is a powerful way to help their knowledge econ ...

Canonical
10 December 2013

More options for app development in Ubuntu on phones with Apache Cordova

Phone and tablet Article

Canonical opens the doors to over 400,000 web developers with the announcement that Apache Cordova 3.3 will support Ubuntu. This makes it really easy for developers to bring their existing Cordova mobile apps to Ubuntu on smartphones. PhoneGap is a mobile application development framework, based on the open source Apache Cordova project. ...

Canonical
9 December 2013

Open source economics | Ubuntu at Le Web 2013, Paris

Phone and tablet Article

Cost and influence on product development are widely accepted and essential considerations when bringing innovative technological products to market. Today community is a new and equally important factor. Conventional wisdom is that open source delivers the best results in all cases, so why isn’t true openness playing a bigger role in the ...

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