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Blog posts tagged
"developers"

Martin Wimpress
5 July 2018

Make your snap store page pop!

Tutorials Article

Last updated: February 2019 When you publish a snap you want to grab the attention of as many users as possible. The Snap Advocacy team regularly review high quality, new and interesting snaps published in the store so that we can feature them in Editor’s Picks, blog about them here or promote them via social ...

Canonical
3 July 2018

Introducing the Dell Precision 7530 and 7730 with Ubuntu

Desktop Article

We’re excited to see Dell announce the availability of the latest Precision mobile workstations which come preinstalled with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Canonical have been part of Dell’s Project Sputnik since Day 1, and over 5 years later we are excited to see continuous innovation in open source computing solutions. The Dell Precision 7530 and 77 ...

Sarah Dickinson
28 June 2018

Fing snaps up 30,000 customers with a secure, future-proof IoT device

Internet of Things Article

The number of IoT devices set to be in use worldwide is due to explode depending on the source over the next couple of years. According to Gartner, the figure is set to be as much as 20.4 bn devices by 2020 with consumer products representing 63% of this figure. Many of these will be low-cost ...

Canonical
21 June 2018

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS certified for Intel NUC for IoT device development

Canonical announcements Canonical News

Canonical and Intel® are pleased to announce that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is now certified on selected Intel® NUC Mini PCs and boards. This partnership will aid device manufacturer’s and their developers to a smoother path to the development and deployment of IoT devices. Applicable to a range of use cases from digital signage to home ...

Sarah Dickinson
19 June 2018

Zenkit: The influence of developer communities in progressing snaps

Desktop Article

Last month, Zenkit published their project management tool as a snap. For those not familiar with Zenkit, they introduced themselves in a guest blog at the time the snap was published which can be read here. Since then, we caught up with Philipp Beck, Full Stack Developer at Zenkit, to discover his opinion on snaps ...

Jamie Bennett
1 June 2018

The key IoT use cases that will drive 5G adoption

Cloud and server Article

2020, the year that we expect 5G networks to begin turning on is not that far away with some already starting early so it is inevitable that the IoT will adapt to the new features that it brings. Our increasingly connected world, sometimes affectionately called the ‘hyper-connected IoT’, is driving demand for bandwidth through the roof. ...

Canonical
15 May 2018

Trust and security in the Snap Store

Desktop Article

Last Friday (11 May 2018) we learned that a snap was mining cryptocurrency in the background while the application was running. The practical implication of that is the overuse of local resources on a user’s system, well beyond what a typical application would use, consuming more energy than would be expected. The net effect is ...

Guest
8 May 2018

An introduction to Zenkit – now available as a snap

Desktop Article

This is a guest blog written by Siobhan O’Rorke of Zenkit. In October 2016, Zenkit was released as an app designed to help you ‘organise anything’, enabling companies to digitise all of their business processes in a single app. It’s innovative approach to presenting data has since garnered worldwide attention, and high demand for desktop ...

Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2018

Ora as a snap: ensuring users are benefiting from the latest version

Desktop Article

Ora is a user-friendly task management service with integrated time-tracking, reports, list view, git integrations and many other features. Often referred to by users as ‘the sweet spot between Trello and Jira’, Ora provides almost a complete match of Jira’s feature set but in a new and more accessible way. Last month, Ora launched their ...

Jamie Bennett
18 April 2018

Eclipse 2018 survey: The IoT landscape, what it empirically looks like

Internet of Things Article

Every year the Eclipse Foundation along with other sponsors conduct an online survey of the IoT market looking at what technologies are being used and how. The 2018 edition of that survey has just been made available and I thought it would be a great idea to look at some of the overarching trends.  The Internet ...

Sarah Dickinson
16 April 2018

BotsAndUs build a social robot on Ubuntu

Internet of Things Article

As robotics become increasingly prevalent in all sectors and expand outside the manufacturing industry, it is no surprise that IDC predicts worldwide spending on robotics to reach $103bn in 2018. A UK based startup, BotsAndUs, are looking to capitalise on this opportunity and have created an advanced social robot – Bo – primarily for use ...

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