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Winners of #UbuntuAtMWC

by Amrisha Prashar on 19 January 2017

A couple weeks ago we held a competition to invite you to join us at MWC by telling us what you wanted to see from #UbuntuAtMWC across Cloud, Devices or IoT!...

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5 Cool things Canonical does with Go

by didrocks on 18 January 2017

We had the recent news that Google’s Go was awarded programming language of 2016 by TIOBE! One of the main reasons for winning is the ease of learning and...

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How to snap: introducing classic confinement

by David Callé on 9 January 2017

Last Thursday, January 5, the snapd team was delighted to announce a new release of snapd (2.20), the daemon that enables systems to work with snaps and...

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IoT predictions for 2017

by Amrisha Prashar on 5 January 2017

Big movements took place in the space of IoT last year from voice-controlled home assistants to block chain solutions. As we enter 2017, Maarten Ectors has...

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10 desktop snaps written in December

by Amrisha Prashar on 5 January 2017

It’s that time of the month! Evan Dandrea put together a selection of top ten snaps written in December. To recap for those of you that may not know, snaps...

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Research: Consumers are terrible at updating their connected devices

by Thibaut Rouffineau on 15 December 2016

Many developers and manufacturers of IoT connected devices will know that consumers are bad at updating the firmware on their connected devices, and that this...

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Webinar: 2017 – what’s in store for IoT?

by Amrisha Prashar on 12 December 2016

It’s nearing the end of the year! Time to take a breather and plan for 2017. As part of our ‘IoT builders’ webinar series, we have asked some of the most...

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snapd 2.18: the snap command strikes back

by David Callé on 12 December 2016

Last Thursday, December 8, the snapd team was happy to announce a new release of snapd (2.18), the daemon that enables systems to work with snaps and provides...

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IoT Builders webinar series – 2016 recap!

by Amrisha Prashar on 9 December 2016

With it nearing the end of the year we thought we’d take this opportunity to recap on all the ‘IoT builders’ webinar series we’ve hosted in 2016. The series...

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Christmas-music-carousel-snap

by Didier Roche on 8 December 2016

Ding ding ding! It’s Christmas time, and as part of the festive competition we’re hosting that asks you to build a seasonal snap on your RaspberryPi…we...

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Using the ubuntu-app-platform content interface in app snaps

by Guest on 8 December 2016

This is a guest post by Olivier Tilloy, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...