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OpenStack in a Snap

by Corey Bryant on 6 July 2017

OpenStack is complex and many OpenStack community members are working hard to make the deployment and operation of OpenStack easier. Much of this time is...

Canonical announcements

Canonical supports Ubuntu Core on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3

by Canonical on 27 June 2017

London UK, 27th June 2017: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announces that its IoT OS, Ubuntu Core, is available on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module...

Internet of Things

Amazon Greengrass launches as a snap on Ubuntu

by Canonical on 13 June 2017

Last week, Amazon launched Greengrass, their new IoT platform allowing developers to create intelligent edge software. Amazon is collaborating with a variety...

Internet of Things

The Turtlebot 3 has launched

by Kyle Fazzari on 31 May 2017

If you’re familiar with ROS (Robot Operating System), chances are you’re also familiar with the Turtlebot. The first version of the Turtlebot was created back...

Internet of Things

Ubuntu ranked as 2nd most used IoT OS by Eclipse Foundation survey

by Sarah Dickinson on 17 May 2017

Last week we posted a blog on programming languages following the Eclipse Foundation 2017 IoT survey results. This week we look at the findings from a...

Internet of Things

Canonical joins EdgeX Foundry to help unify IoT edge computing

by Sarah Dickinson on 24 April 2017

Fragmentation is the nature of the beast in the IoT space with a variety of non-interoperable protocols, devices and vendors which are the natural results of...

Internet of Things

ROS production: our prototype as a snap [3/5]

by Kyle Fazzari on 21 April 2017

This is the third blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we came up with a simple ROS prototype. In this post we’ll package that...

Internet of Things

Making snap packages of photogrammetry software

by Guest on 29 March 2017

This is a guest post by Alberto Mardegan, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...

Internet of Things

The Orange Pi community gets a snap store

by Canonical on 16 March 2017

Shenzhen Xunlong Software partners with Canonical to build the Orange Pi App Store Developers can distribute their applications packaged as snaps to Orange Pi...

Internet of Things

NXP and Canonical to demo Ubuntu Core on the LS1043A at Embedded World

by Canonical on 14 March 2017

The LS1043A, NXP’s quad-core ARM 64bit-powered SoC, is built for embedded networking and IoT Gateways with high throughput needs. Ubuntu Core is a versatile...

Internet of Things

The cheapest and smartest mobile and IoT base station of MWC17

by Maarten Ectors on 11 March 2017

How to solve the top telecom industry problems (declining revenues, spiralling costs, slow time to market) and revolutionise the wireless industry? Open...

Internet of Things

The $1M/month revenue generating fountain each smart city should have

by Maarten Ectors on 9 March 2017

What if smart cities can have fountains generating revenue instead of costing money? App Stores on Fountains, one of the many crazy ideas we demoed on MWC,...