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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 at entering the eCommerce space. However at the moment there are three choices: You choose a hosted solution with direct lock-in. You choose an expensive commercial option. You build

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 consistent transition for sharing photos across the phone. This is the latest iteration of the explorations we’ve been doing, and, as such, these transitions are still work in progress,

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 11 desktop and mobile operating systems across 12 categories including: VPN, disk encryption, and authentication. These criteria are roughly equivalent to a standard set of enterprise

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 people of 2013.   And there’s a report from JWT pointing at some nice trends, manifestations and insights for 2014 (thank you, Daniel, for the link).

We’ve currently been working on user interaction for sending and deleting multiple SMSs and we thought it would be nice to show you where we’re going with it. Here are some of things that we’ve had to consider when making these interactions user friendly: making sure the transitions fit within our paper metaphor — for

Nobody likes to remember lots of different passwords. This is why most enterprises have implemented single sign-on (SSO) solutions. You just sign in one time and can use all the company’s web resources and applications. The problem comes when employees use easy passwords or share their passwords, either knowingly or unknowingly. The solut

Ubuntu is becoming more and more popular in the education sector globally. Every day millions of students conduct research, produce assignments, correspond with each other and their teaching staff, and do many other things using the Ubuntu desktop. Why do governments, universities, schools and learners choose Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is the reference platform for scale out computing.  Some manifestations of scale out computing include: edge of network workloads, dev/test environments, big data (Hadoop), and Cloud (OpenStack).  Not only do all these next-generation workloads run on top of Ubuntu but what’s truly amazing is you can deploy and orchestrate them wit

Ubuntu and Hewlett-Packard have shipped over one and a half million laptops directly into education. These were bought by both individuals, and institutions. In India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh the government knows that investing in laptops and making them readily available to students is a powerful way to help their knowledge econ

Canonical opens the doors to over 400,000 web developers with the announcement that Apache Cordova 3.3 will support Ubuntu. This makes it really easy for developers to bring their existing Cordova mobile apps to Ubuntu on smartphones. PhoneGap is a mobile application development framework, based on the open source Apache Cordova project.

Cost and influence on product development are widely accepted and essential considerations when bringing innovative technological products to market. Today community is a new and equally important factor. Conventional wisdom is that open source delivers the best results in all cases, so why isn’t true openness playing a bigger role in the

Over 300 Ubuntu community developers registered their interest and willingness to work on the open-source Evernote-powered app for Ubuntu on phones, following a call for members back in September. A team of 10 have been finalised and work has begun, the scope of the project defined and initial wireframes designed. This project is pioneeri

We have been running the app design clinic every two weeks to answer any questions from community designers and developers on the apps they are working on! For this session we talked about the community submitted convergence designs for file manager and clock app (thanks everyone!) as well as answering some questions from our Canonical

Over the last decade, we’ve seen the arrival of the first smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and other connected devices; the Web completely transformed with the introduction of the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia; cloud services, music and video streaming were all introduced; millions of apps were developed; and the combination of all

Ubuntu and its hardware partners like HP are at the forefront of supplying computers to Indian students. Government in India understands that IT literacy will help drive the already fast-growing Indian economy into the sustainably profitable knowledge-based sectors vital for its future.  To enable this transformation they’ve invested in c

The Ubuntu phone is developing fast. Today, it includes all the functionality you’d expect from a smartphone and, with growing support from App partners, relevant apps will be included on Ubuntu smartphones from launch. We’re working with The Weather Channel to ensure its popular weather app will available for Ubuntu users from the moment