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Canonical
9 February 2017

openHAB arrives as a snap!

Article Internet of Things

openHAB is a completely open source smart home alternative to Apple Homekit and Samsung SmartThings. Consumers can mix and match hardware and services from different brands London, UK – February 9th, 2017: Canonical, openHAB Foundation and Azul Systems have launched the snap packaging of openHAB 2.0, a free open smart...

Canonical
9 February 2017

Canonical
7 February 2017

Who should bear the cost of IoT security: consumers or vendors?

Article Internet of Things

Anyone using the internet in Europe and the US on 21st October last year experienced what economists call an externality. It arrived in the form of a massive 1.2 Tbps DDoS attack on Dyn, a US-based internet infrastructure company. This, in turn, triggered outages at multiple sites – including PayPal, Twitter, Amazon and...

Canonical
7 February 2017

Maarten Ectors
6 February 2017

10 crazy IoT ideas that can soon become real

Article Internet of Things

1) Smart cities: revenue generating fountains What if instead of being a cost to cities, fountains become a revenue generator? Crazy idea? Just put the same coin accepting mechanism you find in vending machines and allow tourists to switch the fountain on for 30 seconds to get the ideal photo taken. But why not put

Maarten Ectors
6 February 2017

Sergio Schvezov
3 February 2017

Snapcraft 2.26 has been released

Article Internet of Things

Hello snapcrafters! We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.26 of snapcraft has been released: https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.26 Contributions This release has seen some contributions from outside of the snapcraft core team, so we want to give a shout out to these folks, here’s a team thank you...

Sergio Schvezov
3 February 2017

Amrisha Prashar
3 February 2017

The first consumer device to run snaps: Nextcloud box

Article Internet of Things

The Nextcloud box is a private cloud and IoT solution for home users, giving consumers a way to take back control over their personal data. It’s an app-enabled home gateway and the first Ubuntu-Core-enabled consumer device. Snaps and Ubuntu Core are key enablers of the “out-of-the-box” solution, sustainable auto-update...

Amrisha Prashar
3 February 2017

David Callé
2 February 2017

Run scripts during snapcraft builds with “scriptlets”

Article Internet of Things

Please note: this blog post is over 5 years old and is out of date. Scriptlets have been superseded by Overrides. If you have snapped an application, or tried to snap an application, you know that Snapcraft heavily depends on built-in plugins for specific build systems and that it provides a large array of choices

David Callé
2 February 2017

Maarten Ectors
31 January 2017

Industrial IoT revolution with Raspberry Pi compute module 3

Article Internet of Things

The Raspberry Pi Foundation released a long awaited version of their Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3. The great news is that you get 4GB storage, 1GB memory and the same processor as the Raspberry Pi 3 for $30. This means that it now becomes a real solution for anybody wanting to build industrial products and

Maarten Ectors
31 January 2017

Canonical
30 January 2017

48% of people unaware their IoT devices pose a security threat

Article Internet of Things

LONDON, U.K. – 30 January, 2017 – Nearly half (48%) of citizens remain unaware that their connected devices could be infiltrated and used to conduct a cyber attack. That’s according to a new IoT security whitepaper which was published today by Canonical – the makers of Ubuntu. The report, which includes research from...

Canonical
30 January 2017

David Callé
28 January 2017

Ubuntu Core – how to enable aliases for your snaps commands

Article Internet of Things

We are happy to announce that a new version of Ubuntu Core, based on snapd 2.21, has been released to the stable snaps channel yesterday. As with any stable release, your Ubuntu Core devices will update and reboot automatically. If you are using snaps on the desktop, the release will reach you through a snapd

David Callé
28 January 2017

Amrisha Prashar
27 January 2017

Award-winning drone technology with Ubuntu

Article Internet of Things

The market for drones is exploding as businesses and individuals embrace them. The global market for commercial applications of drone technology will balloon to as much as $127 billion by 2020 up from £2billion today (PWC.) Aerotenna is one of those innovators making this vision a reality. Aerotenna’s award-winning...

Amrisha Prashar
27 January 2017

Kyle Fazzari
27 January 2017

ROS on arm64 with Ubuntu Core

Article Internet of Things

Previous Robot Operating System (ROS) releases only supported i386, amd64, and armhf. I even tried building ROS Indigo from source for arm64 about a year ago, but ran into dependency issues with a missing sbcl. Well, with surprisingly little fanfare, ROS Kinetic was released with support for arm64 in their prebuilt...

Kyle Fazzari
27 January 2017

Guest
26 January 2017

Using the ubuntu-app-platform content interface in app snaps

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest post by Olivier Tilloy, Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Recently the ubuntu-app-platform snap has been made available in the store for application developers to build their snaps without bundling all their dependencies. The...

Guest
26 January 2017

didrocks
20 January 2017

tutorials.ubuntu.com goes live!

Article Internet of Things

We are really proud to announce that Tutorials Ubuntu went live this week! What are ubuntu tutorials? Ubuntu tutorials are a topic-specific walkthroughs, giving you a very practical experience on a particular domain. They are just like learning from pair programming except you can do it on your own! They provide a...

didrocks
20 January 2017

Amrisha Prashar
19 January 2017

Winners of #UbuntuAtMWC

Article Cloud and server

A couple weeks ago we held a competition to invite you to join us at MWC by telling us what you wanted to see from #UbuntuAtMWC across Cloud, Devices or IoT! We had some awesome entries which were very hard to limit down to 10! A big thank you to all who entered including our

Amrisha Prashar
19 January 2017

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