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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...
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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...
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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...
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Why language choices can be irrelevant when choosing the right IoT OS
by Sarah Dickinson on 10 May 2017
This is the first in a series of two blogs exploring the finding from the latest Eclipse Foundation IoT Developer Survey. A couple of months ago we posted a...
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Webinar: Delivering the value of IoT in the retail industry
by Canonical on 9 May 2017
Register Now IoT is being embraced by an increasingly diverse set of sectors and one which is reaping the benefits is the retail sector, specifically...
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ROS production: create Ubuntu Core image with snap preinstalled [5/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 9 May 2017
This is the fifth (and final) blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we created a gadget snap to allow confined access to the...
Internet of Things
ROS production: obtaining confined access to the Turtlebot [4/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 27 April 2017
This is the fourth blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we created a snap of our prototype, and released it into the store. In...
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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...
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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...
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FTC and D-Link
by Guest on 19 April 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 Anyone who...
Canonical announcements
Ubuntu 17.04 supports widest range of container capabilities
by Canonical on 13 April 2017
Ubuntu 17.04 released today, supporting Kubernetes, Docker, LXD and Snaps. This is the 26th release of Ubuntu, the world’s most widely deployed Linux OS and...