06.Life at your fingertips - Ubuntu Phone

  Ubuntu reinvents the way you interact with your smartphone. Everything you need in your day is now at your fingertips.

A Scope for every moment

Ubuntu offers a revolutionary way of interacting with your smartphone thanks to the new concept of Scopes. Scopes are individual quick start screens that give you access to everything you need: music, videos, social networks, etc. without having to go from one application to another.

NearBy

When you´re out and about, NearBy will find you the best restaurant, a gig for tonight and even which bus you can catch.

News

The News Scope offers you the latest news feeds selected from a long list of providers. Create your own digital newspaper to your liking.

Music

Listen to music from your smartphone or stream it via SoundCloud and Grooveshark. Download it from 7digital or get your tickets on Songkick. You can do all this without even leaving your Music Scope!

Today

Go back to the Home screen at any time and see the most important interactions on one screen, personalise it and decide what matters most.

Source:

http://www.bq.com/gb/ubuntu.html#aquaris-e4-5

Canonical partners with Amazon, Microsoft, and others on Internet of Things

Maybe Microsoft does love Linux! Canonical, the company behindUbuntu Linux, announced this week that both Microsoft and Amazon have agreed to publish their Internet of Things (IoT) application programming interfaces (APIs) on Ubuntu Core.
Canonical wants Ubuntu Core to become the operating system for the IoT. Ubuntu Core, like CoreOS and Red Hat's Project Atomic, uses a lightweight Linux server to support containers. Unlike the others, which are pointed exclusively for the data-center and the cloud, Canonical also sees Ubuntu Core as being ideal for devices as well. As Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical and Ubuntu's founder put it, "Snappy is much better than package dependencies for robust, distributed devices."

It's Canonical's position that Ubuntu Core provides the security needed for critical infrastructure with fast, automated, reliable updates for the machines that drive networking and industrial systems. This, the company states, is especially important since "Critical infrastructure systems are now an attack vector for espionage and disruption. Canonical and partners are working to deliver certified Ubuntu Core devices that are automatically updated to address systemic vulnerabilities fast. Ubuntu Core also provides best-in-class application isolation based on kernel containers, minimizing the impact of errors and vulnerabilities in third-party applications."

Of course, that's easy to say, but without support from other vendors it doesn't mean much. But, Canonical now has IoT partnerships not just with Amazon and Microsoft, but with major silicon providers whose processors and platforms power mission critical device and OEMs building the next generation of secure, software-defined network equipment.


Source:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-partners-with-amazon-microsoft-and-others-on-internet-of-things/

IBM and Top Linux Distros Team Up to Drag x86 Workloads Onto Power

IBM, a long-time supporter of Linux, has been working with major distributions of the popular open source operating system, to make it easier for users to port their applications written for x86 servers onto IBM Power Systems.

IBM got out of the x86 server business just last year, after itsold its System x unit to China’s Lenovo for $2.3 billion. The company has since been placing a lot of focus on growing its business around the Power processor architecture and servers built on it.

The way IBM and the big Linux distros – Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) Red Hat, and SUSE – are tackling the portability problem has to do with the way server platforms treat data stored in memory. Most Linux software is written for the x86 architecture, which uses the “little endian” approach to storing bytes in memory. The alternative is “big endian,” which has traditionally been used by mainframes and IBM’s Power architecture. (Detailed explanation of the difference here)




Source:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-project-zero-reveals-three-apple-os-x-zero-day-vulnerabilities/