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App Design Clinic #8

This week we dedicated the short clinic to sizing, and ensuring widgets and items are usable (touchable). We covered… The Ubuntu grid unit – for more...

Smart joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

In its efforts to further democratize access to the Internet, Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), the leading wireless services provider in the Philippines,...

A bit of summer in the middle of winter

In January when the winter weather was at its worst in London we packed our laptops, designs and prototypes and headed to Cape Town, South Africa for Client...

Apache Syncope sponsor, Tirasa, shows instant IDM on Juju

“If you want to quickly switch to the cloud, then you want to look at Juju.”, says Tirasa. Tirasa is the main sponsor behind the Apache Syncope project....

Vodafone joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group

Ubuntu has gained momentum for its phone offering over the last year and has attracted much interest from the mobile industry at large. So, today, we’re...

MWC 2014 online press pack

Ubuntu phones coming to market Canonical has signed agreements with mobile device manufacturers bq (Spain) and Meizu (China) to bring Ubuntu smartphones to...

Latest from the web team — January 2014

We’re now well into 2014 and working on several exciting projects that will be released throughout the year. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu...

App Design Clinic #7

This week in App Design Clinic #7 we reviewed 3 apps: SocketWorld (for finding and comparing plug types), Flashback (an entertainment app using Trackt) and...


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Ubuntu’s Juju wins Cloud Awards ‘Best Cloud Automation Solution’

We’re thrilled to announce that, out of 200 total entries, our service orchestration tool, Juju, has been named the 2013-2014 Cloud Awards winner for Best...

Instant eCommerce

Christmas shopping habbits have changed recently. Most people just buy gifts online to avoid endless queues. A lot of small and medium companies are looking...

Sheets transition

We’ve recently been exploring how the share transitions should work when you’re previewing a photo in gallery mode. Our main goal is that there is a...

Ubuntu scores highest in UK Gov security assessment

UK government security arm CESG has published a report of its assessment on the security of all ‘End User Device’ operating systems. Its assessment compared...

New year, new website: the new canonical.com

We’ve been talking about it for a while and we are now happy to reveal Canonical’s brand new website. The brief We thought that it was more than appropriate...

Ubuntu: Web OS of the year…. ….for the 3rd year in a row

It is with great pride that we saw Ubuntu winning W3tech’s Operating System of the year award. For those of us that work on Ubuntu, increased adoption is one...

2013: a year of innovation, interoperability and convergence

Following our post about the next decade of innovation, we thought now would be a good time to look back at 2013, a year that saw huge strides toward two of...

New year links

Happy new year! Here are a couple of links that have been flying around the London office since we returned. The Verge did a recap of their most influential...


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