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Hi everyone So ends a crazy month. We’ve broken records, we’ve been written and talked about across the world, we’ve worn out our F5 keys, and we’ve learned a lot of invaluable lessons about crowdfunding. Our bold campaign to build a visionary new device ultimately fell short, but we can take away so many positives.

Music apps that allow users to switch between player and queue mode can be quite complex. Some challenges of music apps in general: Deep navigation through the music library: Home › Artists › Artist › Album › Play queue Switching between play queue and library And a challenge unique for the Ubuntu phone: Keeping play

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 throughout the product li

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 the fastest project

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 eines Desktop-PCs. Beso

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?

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 of Canonical worksh

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

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 to join the CAG. M

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 Guide to Conflict, Hack

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 convergence capabi

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

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

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 with Ubuntu 12.04

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 and a developer

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