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5 pillars of Ubuntu Touch success

Canonical, the company leading the Ubuntu Touch project, is taking a five pronged approach to ensure the success of the platform.

Mark Shuttleworth punts Ubuntu Phone OS at CES 2013

Canonical CEO, Mark Shuttleworth, discusses Ubuntu for Android and the full Ubuntu Phone OS convergence experience.

Ubuntu for Phones eyes-on

Has Ubuntu got what it takes to enter the mobile operating system meat-grinder?

Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal launch day

South African entrepreneur and self-appointed benevolent dictator for life of the Ubuntu project, Mark Shuttleworth, has revealed that the next version of the Ubuntu operating system will be code-named Raring Ringtail.

5 popular Linux distros

Which Linux distros have received the most attention over the last year?

Ubuntu in South African Schools

The South African highschool IT curriculum is outdated and not adequately preparing students

Linux Mint Cinnamon – A sweet alternative

Mint releases new desktop OS into already murky Linux desktop waters.

Firefox 11 readies to fly

Mozilla keeps up relentless development pace.

Heads-up Ubuntu fans

Shuttleworth continues on his mission to reshape the desktop

Open source: the default choice

When it comes to open source software, the question that needs to be asked today is not which businesses are using open source – but rather which businesses are not.

Ubuntu rolling out the new

Ubuntu Precise Pangolin will make its debut in 2012. This is what you can expect.

Ten best Android productivity apps

Give 2012 a productivity boost with these Android apps. With Android devices on the rise it’s time to consider how best to put your smartphones and tablet PCs to work. Here is a selection of ten Android productivity apps that could give your work a serious boost.

Ubuntu’s Pangolin polish

The April release of Ubuntu is all about quality

Windows 8: one step forward, two steps back

  • MyBroadband; By Andrew Craucamp (Posted by rpm007 on Sep 30, 2011 6:17 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Microsoft
Windows 8 has learned a lot of cool things from a number of other operating systems but is Microsoft moving backwards where it counts?

Chrome 14 ups Google’s browser game

Google continues its assault on the browser market with the release of Chrome 14

The end of the OS is nigh

It’s been coming for years but the operating system as we know it could heading for virtual extinction

Linux 20 years on

It has been 20 years since Linus Torvalds first announced his new operating system. At the time he said that Linux was not much to get excited about, just a hobby that might appeal to a few like-minded developers. As it turned out Linux became a lot more than Torvalds could ever have imagined and far from being a hobby for a handful, Linux is now at the heart of most of the world’s IT.

Ubuntu eyes ARM servers

In the constant battle for performance and lower power consumption some OS makers are preparing for ARM-based server clusters

Amazon and the future of the web

Amazon’s HTML5 strategy shows the way forward for web publishing. Earlier this month Amazon released a browser-based version of its Kindle reading software. Called the Kindle Cloud reader, the software allows anyone to read their Kindle books in almost any browser.

Firefox, Chrome spruce up

New releases of two of the world’s most popular browsers hit user desktops. It’s been a busy couple of months for the Mozilla Foundation and Google. Both organizations this week release new versions of their popular browsers. Firefox 6 is the latest release from Mozilla while a Chrome 14 beta shows off some of Google’s plans.

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