Trying to raise $32 million via crowdfunding always looked overly ambitious. And indeed it has proved to be so. Canonical's Ubuntu Edge Indiegogo campaign to build a smartphone designed for converged
The Ubuntu Edge, the smartphone made by UK-based Canonical, has received a second price drop in its $32 million crowdfunding campaign. For the remaining 14 days of its audacious Indiegogo campaign, th
The Ubuntu Edge is an audacious attempt to crowdsource the next smartphone advancement. Canonical, the company behind the Edge and Ubuntu itself is seeking an exorbitant $32 million to make it happen,
Smartphone companies have it pretty rough -- they've got to sink millions into research and development every year, all in the hope of making their next shiny touchscreen gewgaw the fastest, slimmest,
The Ubuntu Edge is the amazing future space phone of your dreams, which is why UK-based Canonical feels it needs $32 million to make the thing. The Ubuntu creator made some good progress in the initia
Ubuntu Mobile isn't new; Canonical has already done much to promote its efforts to break into the smartphone mobile software space. But today the company is launching an Indiegogo campaign to fund the
Canonical announced via its blog yesterday that it will be building an Ubuntu-based open-source OS for China, in partnership with the Chinese government and members of the Chinese developer community.
Hot on the heels of the announcement of <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/02/canonical-brings-ubuntu-os-to-phones-official/">Ubuntu on phones</a> comes Canonical's latest announcement: Ubuntu on
After <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/02/canonical-brings-ubuntu-os-to-phones-official/">spotting it on video</a> and briefly <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/08/hands-on-with-ubuntu-ph
The odds are stacked against Canonical's <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/02/canonical-brings-ubuntu-os-to-phones-official/">late-comer Ubuntu phone OS</a>. But by seducing hardcore mobile user
Of course proponents will say that the mobile market is still in its infancy and there is a need for an open OS. While I agree, I am not convinced that Ubuntu will become a winner on the scale of Andr
Ubuntu isn’t exactly a stranger to the mobile space — it started showing off its <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/02/21/canonical-announces-ubuntu-for-android/">Ubuntu for Android</a> project
Free software leader <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman">Richard Stallman</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do">clai
Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth says parts of Ubuntu 13.04 will be kept a secret, out of the public eye until its unveiling.
The move, which he writes about on his<a target="_blank" href="http://w
Canonical isn't just the company behind the popular Linux distribution <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>, but with <a target="_blank" href="https://one.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu On
Ubuntu Linux, which started with the tagline "Linux for human beings," was originally an easy-to-use Linux distribution for desktop users. Canonical picked what they considered to be the best of breed
<a target="_blank" href="http://inktank.com">Inktank</a> has raised $1 million in the form of a convertible note from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.markshuttleworth.com/">Canonical Founder Mark
Is Dell becoming an open source company?
Yes, but it is not exactly being planned that way. It is bubbling up like most open source projects do. But in many respects the move to open source is also
Most days I have only three or four browser tabs open: GMail, Twitter, Google Reader, and whatever link I've clicked through from one of the previous three. I know folks, though, who regularly have tw
If you've been living under a rock for the last couple of years, you might be excused for not knowing about this <a target="_blank" href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/humble-bundle">Humble Bundle</a> th
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