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Announcing the User Experience Advocates Project
By Canonical, 10 June 2010
After working on paper cuts for a year, I realized how disorganized many open source projects affecting Ubuntu are when it comes to improving user experience....
Canonical renews the Ubuntu certification programme
By Canonical, 8 June 2010
June 8, Taipei: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announced today that it has extended and revised its Hardware Certification Programme for Original...
Well worth ten minutes of your time…
By Canonical, 8 June 2010
An illustration supporting a talk by Dan Pink about the hidden truths behind what really motivates us.
Canonical gives businesses the Ubuntu Advantage
By Canonical, 8 June 2010
Canonical over the last four years or so has brought businesses a growing range of services and software tools to help them make better use of the Ubuntu...
New Canonical services help businesses get ahead with Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Desktop
By Canonical, 7 June 2010
“Ubuntu Advantage” provides configurable support services to businesses LONDON, June 7, 2010 — Canonical today introduced Ubuntu Advantage – a comprehensive...
Last week in London and Brussels
By Canonical, 31 May 2010
I spent the first part of last week in a small room in London with Andrea Cimitan, Daniel Foré and Otto Greenslade working on the amazing Murrine theme engine...
The keyboard menu
By Matthew Paul Thomas, 27 May 2010
A new keyboard menu will replace both the keyboard layout toggle from Ubuntu’s doomed notification area, and the IBus menu for choosing a keyboard input method.
New Ubuntu and Canonical sites
By Alejandra Obregon, 26 May 2010
The new Ubuntu and Canonical sites went live today. As well as the visual refresh to include the new brand, the objective was to bring the sites up-to-date...
Landscape 1.5 Released with new Enterprise Features
By Canonical, 26 May 2010
The number of subscribers to the Landscape Systems Management application has grown dramatically over the past year with much of this growth coming from...
The challenge of understanding icons
By Canonical, 26 May 2010
Icons are very peculiar images. They are both pictorial and functional. An icon is literally a picture, e.g., of a magnifying glass, and at the same time it...
Canonical adds advanced enterprise features to latest version of systems management tool
By Canonical, 25 May 2010
New 'Landscape' supports Ubuntu 10.04 LTS migration and cloud deployments for enterprises Canonical today announced the latest version of its Ubuntu-dedicated...