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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 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.

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

Over 300 Ubuntu community developers registered their interest and willingness to work on the open-source Evernote-powered app for Ubuntu on phones, following a call for members back in September. A team of 10 have been finalised and work has begun, the scope of the project defined and initial wireframes designed. This project is pioneeri

We have been running the app design clinic every two weeks to answer any questions from community designers and developers on the apps they are working on! For this session we talked about the community submitted convergence designs for file manager and clock app (thanks everyone!) as well as answering some questions from our Canonical

Over the last decade, we’ve seen the arrival of the first smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and other connected devices; the Web completely transformed with the introduction of the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia; cloud services, music and video streaming were all introduced; millions of apps were developed; and the combination of all

Ubuntu and its hardware partners like HP are at the forefront of supplying computers to Indian students. Government in India understands that IT literacy will help drive the already fast-growing Indian economy into the sustainably profitable knowledge-based sectors vital for its future.  To enable this transformation they’ve invested in c

The Ubuntu phone is developing fast. Today, it includes all the functionality you’d expect from a smartphone and, with growing support from App partners, relevant apps will be included on Ubuntu smartphones from launch. We’re working with The Weather Channel to ensure its popular weather app will available for Ubuntu users from the moment

Over the last few months we have been running the App Design Clinic and we want to thank you for all your submissions, contribution and feedback! The Design Clinic happens every two weeks and the last one co-incided with vUDS, so we included more information on general app design as well as answering quesitons. Here’s

On 19-21 November we had our vUDS where we got to discuss and share with the community some of the design work we’ve been doing recently. Our topics ranged from our design blog to convergence designs to Juju GUI cloud to icon designs! If you missed any of our sessions, don’t worry. They are all

A quiet revolution is taking place in the global education sector: more and more institutions and students are discovering the value of the Ubuntu operating system. In the USA, Ubuntu partner ASUS has added to its long line of Ubuntu laptops.  The X201E and 1015E  are high-quality, affordable Ubuntu laptops, perfect for education. As Ubun

Enterprise environments rely on Ubuntu’s LTS (Long-term Support) release.   Its established two year release cadence and five year security and maintenance updates means sysadmins and developers can plan updates and migrations in advance. So it comes at no surprise, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is the leading reference operating system for OpenStack

This video published by the DellTechCenter shows the optimisation of Ubuntu’s cloud technologies, “Juju” and “MAAS”, as used with the Dell PowerEdge servers. Canonical’s Kent Baxley and Dell’s Jose De La Rosa, are the two experienced engineers who have been interviewed.

The backbone for scale-out workload deployments in Ubuntu, such as big data (Hadoop), cloud (OpenStack), and layered applications is a combination of Metal-as-a-Service (MAAS) and Juju.  These exciting open-source projects, offer groundbreaking functionality and just got better in Ubuntu 13.10! MAAS provisions hardware using existing and

Some of us in the Design team have been gathering on a monthly basis to have lunch together and share things we find interesting to us. Today, I’d like to share with you the Brown Bag lunch we had this week. Vesa shared with us his interest in photography and showed us some of the

In the previous post, we talked about how to design effective user testing tasks to evaluate the usability of an interface. This post continues with this topic by highlighting a number of key strategies that you may need to use when conducting a formative user testing, whose main aim is to identify usability problems and