Internet of Things archives
89 posts from 2016
Still and rigid or adaptable? Tell us about your app
By Amrisha Prashar, 1 June 2016
Competition time! Calling all developers – how well does your app converge across devices? We have a new competition to inspire you in making your app...
Snaps on NAS: IOT apps for your private network
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 31 May 2016
QNAP selects snaps and Ubuntu to bring IOT apps to its NAS On Friday QNAP announced that they were adopting snaps as the application format of choice for...
Digital signage solution Screenly chooses Canonical’s Ubuntu Core
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 18 May 2016
Increased security, reliability and ease of use, now available on Raspberry Pi May 18, 2016, London. Today Screenly, the most popular digital signage solution...
Ubuntu Core sees the light on NXP/Freescale i.MX 6 and HiKey
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 16 May 2016
This week the worlds of open source and embedded development are all gathering in Austin for OSCON and the NXP FTF. This is the opportunity for Canonical to...
Ubuntu Core now available for Samsung ARTIK 5 and 10
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 5 May 2016
If you have been waiting to try Ubuntu Core on the Samsung ARTIK 5 or 10… the wait is over! Developer images for the 2 boards are now available from...
Security confinement in Ubuntu Core
By Gustavo Niemeyer, 4 May 2016
As much anticipated, the recent release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS included integrated support for snaps on classic Ubuntu. The snap format is part of Ubuntu Core, a...
Samsung Developer Conference 2016
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 26 April 2016
It’s arrived! Samsung’s big yearly developer event kicks off from April 27th – 28th in SF. A place where developers, creators and builders alike come together...
Flying mobile base stations are coming to the UK
By Maarten Ectors, 26 April 2016
EE, the largest mobile operator in the UK and now part of BT, just announced a collaboration with Lime Micro, a leader in the next big phase of open source...
Canonical unveils 6th LTS release of Ubuntu with 16.04
By Canonical, 20 April 2016
Introduces “snaps” for new robust, secure app format Introduces LXD pure-container hypervisor with OpenStack Mitaka Supports IBM Z and LinuxONE systems with...
infographic: How many people use Ubuntu?
By Alexia Emmanoulopoulou, 7 April 2016
Discover the range of industries, people and services that are using Ubuntu right now. Netflix. Snapchat. Dropbox. Uber. Tesla…and the International space...
When a projector and app-enabled software-defined radio cross paths
By Maarten Ectors, 7 April 2016
We had a chat with our head of IoT, Maarten, to discover what happens when a projector crosses paths with an app-enabled software-defined radio (limeSDR.org)...
MWC 2016: Our biggest show yet
By Canonical, 23 March 2016
For the whole Canonical team, Mobile World Congress 2016 was a momentous event. Not only were we sitting alongside some of the biggest technology companies...