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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
16 May 2013

Shorts, the RSS reader app

Ubuntu Notes

As you can see in the image above, I have spent some time looking at different types and contexts of reading, trying to understand what the reading experience might be for Ubuntu. The contexts of reading varies from libraries to magazine stands to the sofa in your lounge, and these each have an impact on ...

Canonical
1 May 2013

Weather & Clock app visual exploration

Ubuntu Notes

Thank you for all your positive feedback after our first blog post. We are very excited and are continuing with the designs, here’s a quick update on how we’re getting on. During the last few weeks we have been looking at the development of the weather and clock apps. We are also looking at set ...

Canonical
26 April 2013

Ubuntu 13.04 in context

Cloud and server Article

The past couple of years have seen a fundamental shift in the way enterprise IT is done. This trend started with the consumerisation of corporate devices, and the gradual introduction of BYOD policies. This has paved the way to the “user voice” being heard more than ever. We’re seeing this trend continuing into the backend ...

Canonical
26 April 2013

Responding to orientation

Ubuntu Notes

We have just published a new chapter on our App Design Guides : how to handle orientation. To cater for the different orientations of a range of touch devices, we need to design apps for Ubuntu in a responsive way. Phone orientations The primary orientation for an app on the phone is portrait. Consider using landscape orientation when we ...

Canonical
25 April 2013

Ubuntu 13.04 delivers OpenStack with high availability, scalable storage and big data deployment capabilities

Ubuntu News

Ubuntu 13.04 offers a complete solution for building highly available, flexible and secure OpenStack production clouds with scale out storage, networking and compute capabilities. ...

Canonical
17 April 2013

Designing in the open

Ubuntu Notes

On Tuesday 9th of April I gave a little talk at Mozilla’s “Designing in the Open” event. Along with the rest of the speakers I was asked to prepare a 10 – 15 minutes talk and to be prepared for a discussion to follow. In preparation for the talk I spoke to a few people ...

Canonical
16 April 2013

Enterprise cloud computing with Ubuntu on Windows Azure

Cloud and server News

The emergence of public cloud computing has changed the IT landscape for developers and enterprises, making it significantly easier and more cost effective to develop and deploy new applications, services and infrastructure. Enterprises can choose among cloud providers to meet their needs for performance, features, price and flexibility t ...

Canonical
16 April 2013

Enterprise Cloud Computing with Ubuntu on Windows Azure

Ubuntu Cloud

The emergence of public cloud computing has changed the IT landscape for developers and enterprises, making it significantly easier and more cost effective to develop and deploy new applications, services and infrastructure. Enterprises can choose among cloud providers to meet their needs for performance, features, price and flexibility t ...

Canonical
12 April 2013

Core utility apps visual exploration

Ubuntu Featured

Hi everyone, following our process post last week I’m excited to share the first round of visual exploration for three of our core utility apps; clock, weather and calendar (calculator and an updated notepad soon too I promise!). It is important to note that this is still an early stage in the design process. Our ...

Canonical
11 April 2013

Ubuntu makes a splash in media

Phone and tablet Article

The Chinese government has selected Canonical’s Ubuntu as the basis for a new reference architecture for a Chinese OS in order to provide a flexible, open, widely-used and standardised operating system. Moreover, The China Software and Integrated Chip Promotions Centre (CSIP), Canonical and the National University of Defense Technology (N ...

Canonical
11 April 2013

Rapid progress keeps development on target

Phone and tablet Article

An interview with Richard Collins, product manager for Ubuntu phones. ...

Canonical
11 April 2013

The design vision for Ubuntu

Phone and tablet Article

An interview with Marcus Haslam, head of brand and visual design at Canonical. ...

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