Internet of Things archives
12 posts from January 2017
Industrial IoT revolution with Raspberry Pi compute module 3
By Maarten Ectors, 31 January 2017
The Raspberry Pi Foundation released a long awaited version of their Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3. The great news is that you get 4GB storage, 1GB memory and...
48% of people unaware their IoT devices pose a security threat
By Canonical, 30 January 2017
LONDON, U.K. – 30 January, 2017 – Nearly half (48%) of citizens remain unaware that their connected devices could be infiltrated and used to conduct a cyber...
Ubuntu Core – how to enable aliases for your snaps commands
By David Callé, 28 January 2017
We are happy to announce that a new version of Ubuntu Core, based on snapd 2.21, has been released to the stable snaps channel yesterday. As with any stable...
Award-winning drone technology with Ubuntu
By Amrisha Prashar, 27 January 2017
The market for drones is exploding as businesses and individuals embrace them. The global market for commercial applications of drone technology will balloon...
ROS on arm64 with Ubuntu Core
By Kyle Fazzari, 27 January 2017
Previous Robot Operating System (ROS) releases only supported i386, amd64, and armhf. I even tried building ROS Indigo from source for arm64 about a year ago,...
Using the ubuntu-app-platform content interface in app snaps
By Guest, 26 January 2017
This is a guest post by Olivier Tilloy, Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com...
tutorials.ubuntu.com goes live!
By didrocks, 20 January 2017
We are really proud to announce that Tutorials Ubuntu went live this week! What are ubuntu tutorials? Ubuntu tutorials are a topic-specific walkthroughs,...
Winners of #UbuntuAtMWC
By Amrisha Prashar, 19 January 2017
A couple weeks ago we held a competition to invite you to join us at MWC by telling us what you wanted to see from #UbuntuAtMWC across Cloud, Devices or IoT!...
5 Cool things Canonical does with Go
By didrocks, 18 January 2017
We had the recent news that Google’s Go was awarded programming language of 2016 by TIOBE! One of the main reasons for winning is the ease of learning and...
How to snap: introducing classic confinement
By David Callé, 9 January 2017
Last Thursday, January 5, the snapd team was delighted to announce a new release of snapd (2.20), the daemon that enables systems to work with snaps and...
IoT predictions for 2017
By Amrisha Prashar, 5 January 2017
Big movements took place in the space of IoT last year from voice-controlled home assistants to block chain solutions. As we enter 2017, Maarten Ectors has...
10 desktop snaps written in December
By Amrisha Prashar, 5 January 2017
It’s that time of the month! Evan Dandrea put together a selection of top ten snaps written in December. To recap for those of you that may not know, snaps...