Internet of Things archives
21 posts from March 2017
Snaps are now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS desktop and server
By David Callé, 30 March 2017
The snapd team recently announced a new release of snapd supporting Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty) for servers and desktop (i386, amd64). The snapd service is what...
Making snap packages of photogrammetry software
By Guest, 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...
Battlestar solution
By Guest, 28 March 2017
This is a guest post by Peter Kirwan, technology journalist. If you would like to contribute a post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Forecasts...
Putting Ubuntu in embedded
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 27 March 2017
This year Canonical joined Embedded World 2017 for the first time with a booth. And the initial reaction from anyone visiting the booth was one of surprise...
Out of date software leaves you vulnerable
By Canonical, 23 March 2017
Two weeks ago, Der Spiegel wrote an article highlighting that out of date software on private clouds was leaving government and political party information...
Distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps
By Kyle Fazzari, 22 March 2017
One of the key tenets of snaps is that they bundle their dependencies. The fact that they’re self-contained helps their transactional-ness: upgrading or...
When products and digital signage speak the same language
By Guest, 21 March 2017
This is a guest post by Dominique Guinard, Co-founder & CTO at EVRYTHNG. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...
Three flaws at the heart of IoT security
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 20 March 2017
This blog has been syndicated from SCMagazine UK, contributed by Thibaut Rouffineau – head of devices marketing. According to the latest estimates by Gartner,...
The Orange Pi community gets a snap store
By Canonical, 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...
NXP and Canonical to demo Ubuntu Core on the LS1043A at Embedded World
By Canonical, 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...
The smart multi-personality vending machine
By Maarten Ectors, 13 March 2017
This vending machine is unlike you have seen before. It is a telecom operator in a box. Minutes later it cures the chronic ill via an Uber for Doctors and...
This elevator catches intruders, saves lives, generates money, …
By Maarten Ectors, 13 March 2017
The world is becoming software defined and most people don’t realise what this means until software apps and app stores invade their day to day objects like...