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 ...

Over the last few years, Google and Android have increasingly dominated the mobile scene, with Microsoft relegated to bit-player status. Once-massive players like BlackBerry scarcely stir a ripple in ...

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 ...

Chinese phone maker Meizu had already announced plans to launch a smartphone running a version of the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Now Meizu and Canonical have signed an agreement to launch the ...

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 ...

It's been around two years since Canonical unveiled Ubuntu for mobile in a tangible capacity, and next week, the first Ubuntu phone will finally go on sale. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

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.

I found Ubuntu very exciting in the early days, but I quickly grew disillusioned with the distro's design choices. Canonical's explorations away from the desktop toward phones and TVs felt misguided.

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 ...

The first smartphones based on a mobile version of Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux operating system will be launched this year, the company’s CEO said Wednesday. BQ and Meizu, both Chinese phone makers, will ...