Internet of Things archives
89 posts from 2016
The 4th China Mobile Global Partner Conference Forum
By April Wang, 22 December 2016
China Mobile units 24 industry leaders forming the Digital Home Cooperation Alliance Canonical attends the partner conference and becomes a member of the...
Research: Consumers are terrible at updating their connected devices
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 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...
Webinar: 2017 – what’s in store for IoT?
By Amrisha Prashar, 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...
snapd 2.18: the snap command strikes back
By David Callé, 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...
IoT Builders webinar series – 2016 recap!
By Amrisha Prashar, 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...
Christmas-music-carousel-snap
By Didier Roche, 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...
Using the ubuntu-app-platform content interface in app snaps
By Guest, 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...
Jamming with Ubuntu Core
By April Wang, 7 December 2016
We celebrated the launch of Ubuntu Core 16 hackathon, or shall we say Snapathon, that took place in Shenzhen between 26-27th November. The 30+ hour gathering...
Competition: Build a seasonal snap on your Raspberry Pi
By Amrisha Prashar, 1 December 2016
And our present for you this Christmas is… a competition to create a seasonal snap on your Raspberry Pi 2 or 3! We’d love to see the entries that are the most...
10 desktop snaps written in November
By Didier Roche, 1 December 2016
It’s that time of the month again where we round up our top ten snaps from the last month! For those that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to...
Ubuntu SDK meets snapcraft
By Benjamin Zeller, 28 November 2016
Everyone who has followed Ubuntu lately for sure stumbled across the snappy technology, which does not only bring the new cross-distro packaging format “snap”...
Pycom and Canonical to enable LPWAN communications via snaps
By Maarten Ectors, 25 November 2016
Pycom is the company behind the disruptive products such as the LoPy and SiPy which enable developers to easily get LoRa and Sigfox low-power WAN (LPWAN)...