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Crowdsourcing the #AppEnabledHome: GE, FirstBuild and Canonical

by Maarten Ectors on 22 September 2015

  IoT is changing the home. Soon you will have apps and app stores on any type of home appliance. Earlier this year, GE’s FirstBuild brought to market the...

Winners crowned in the China Mobile and Ubuntu developer contest

by April Wang on 26 August 2015

Celebrate Ubuntu: China Hackathon

by April Wang on 15 July 2015

To celebrate the Developer Edition Ubuntu phone launch in China, Canonical organized a “celebrate Ubuntu” hackathon for the phone in Beijing. It was also...

A seachange in front-end best practice (but not for a while)

by Robin Winslow on 11 March 2015

Despite some reservations, it looks like HTTP/2 is very definitely the future of the Internet. Speed improvements HTTP/2 may not be the perfect standard, but...

Ubuntu Core on Internet Things

by Canonical on 20 January 2015

New Snappy Ubuntu Core on smart devices delivers bullet-proof security, reliable updates and the enormous Ubuntu ecosystem at your fingertips – bringing the...

Developer Innovation Contest launched with China Mobile

by Canonical on 18 December 2014

“AND Your Dream Come True” Million Youths Entrepreneurship and Employment Programme “Ubuntu Developer Innovation Contest” officially launched China Mobile and...

Ubuntu 14.10 desktop: security for global users

by Canonical on 23 October 2014

Ubuntu 14.10 desktop delivers latest applications and developer support Over 30 million computers preinstalled with Ubuntu have shipped globally in two years...

Saving ubuntu.com on download day: Caching location specific pages

by Robin Winslow on 28 August 2014

On release day we can get up to 8,000 requests a second to ubuntu.com from people trying to download the new release. In fact, last October (13.10) was the...

Cloud 9 IDE now runs Ubuntu containers via Docker

by Canonical on 31 July 2014

As announced during the Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS release, Docker is now fully integrated with Ubuntu Server, available through a simple apt-get. Since then,...

Ubuntu Touch SDK beta

by Canonical on 24 July 2013

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...

Developers get the full support they need

by Canonical on 15 February 2013

An interview with David Planella, Ubuntu Community and David Pitkin, Online Services Native and HTML5 apps.

Unity Technologies releases 4.0 including game export for Ubuntu

by Canonical on 15 November 2012

The Unity cross-platform development tool version 4 has been released from beta into the growing world of Ubuntu game development. Every Unity developer is...