When Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced today that the team behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system would be dropping the Unity desktop environment and going back to GNOME starting ...

After a lot of hopes, dreams, and rumors about a smartphone running the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system, Canonical has just handed over a number of Ubuntu phones to select insiders at a special ...

Canonical on Wednesday announced its next moves on the way to market with a Linux-powered phone. By the end of this month Canonical plans to equip its employees with early versions of its widely hyped ...

The Ubuntu Edge smartphone campaign never reached its lofty $32m goal , but the more than $12m in pledges it received was record-breaking—and Canonical hasn’t given up. Ubuntu Touch for phones just ...

Ubuntu is now a full-fledged smartphone operating system, featuring a host of platform-specific features and an innovative new interface, Canonical announced today. EARLIER: Rumors swirl as Ubuntu ...

Canonical is taking its innovative smartphone design directly to potential customers. The company has launched a crowdfunding campaign to build the original batch of its planned Ubuntu Edge devices.

These days there is more competition in the mobile space than there ever has been, between Android and iOS with the Lion’s share of the market and Microsoft and RIM fighting for third place, there ...

In a world dominated by iOS and junk-food-inspired Android operating systems, Canonical, developers of Ubuntu, feel there's room for a mobile version of its user-friendly Linux distribution. However, ...

Mark Shuttleworth, the multi-millionaire space tourist who bankrolls the Ubuntu effort to take Linux to the mass market, says that the company is now targeting "a broader range of form factors … from ...