Blog posts written by Canonical

Canonical
16 August 2013

Usability testing: how do we design effective tasks

User Experience Cloud and server

Previously, Charline Poirier provided an excellent post about how to recruit representative participants for usability testing. To continue the story, we are going to talk about the next stage: developing effective task sets, which is a crucial part of a test protocol. We conduct usability testing iteratively and...

Canonical
16 August 2013

Canonical
13 August 2013

An Ubuntu Edge message from Mark Shuttleworth

Article Phone and tablet

Thanks in large part to all of you, the Ubuntu Edge campaign response has been incredible. In just over three weeks more than 20,000 people have backed the project, from individuals giving a single dollar right up to Bloomberg’s fantastic $80,000 contribution. Along the way we’ve broken crowdfunding records, including...

Canonical
13 August 2013

Canonical
8 August 2013

Crowdfunding-Kampagne für Ubuntu Edge bricht Rekorde

News Phone and tablet

Großartige Unterstützung durch Technologie-Enthusiasten aus Deutschland Canonical hat mit seiner Crowdfunding-Initiative zur Entwicklung von Ubuntu Edge innerhalb kürzester Zeit mehr als 6 Millionen Euro eingesammelt. Ubuntu Edge kombiniert in nur einem Gerät den Komfort eines Smartphones und die Leistungsfähigkeit...

Canonical
8 August 2013

Ubuntu Edge now $695, thanks to major industry backing

News Phone and tablet

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
8 August 2013

Canonical
7 August 2013

Bloomberg bets big on the Ubuntu Edge

News Phone and tablet

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...

Canonical
7 August 2013

Canonical
6 August 2013

Calendar App Visuals

User Experience Ubuntu

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

Canonical
6 August 2013

Canonical
1 August 2013

T-Mobile USA joins the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

News Phone and tablet

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...

Canonical
1 August 2013

A successful (and busy!) week at OSCON

Article Cloud and server

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...

Canonical
1 August 2013

Canonical
30 July 2013

Telstra joins the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

News Phone and tablet

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...

Canonical
30 July 2013

Canonical
26 July 2013

Ubuntu Edge: Design process

Featured Ubuntu

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
26 July 2013

Canonical
25 July 2013

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

Article Ubuntu

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
25 July 2013

Canonical
24 July 2013

Bodega Aurrera stores shipping HP PCs with Ubuntu preinstalled

News Desktop

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...

Canonical
24 July 2013

Ubuntu Touch SDK beta

News Phone and tablet

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...

Canonical
24 July 2013

Could your startup use some cloud magic?

Article Cloud and server

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
24 July 2013