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Canonical, the company leading the Ubuntu Touch project, is taking a five pronged approach to ensure the success of the platform.

Canonical CEO, Mark Shuttleworth, discusses Ubuntu for Android and the full Ubuntu Phone OS convergence experience.

Has Ubuntu got what it takes to enter the mobile operating system meat-grinder?

South African entrepreneur and self-appointed benevolent dictator for life of the Ubuntu project, Mark Shuttleworth, has revealed that the next version of the Ubuntu operating system will be code-named Raring Ringtail.

Which Linux distros have received the most attention over the last year?

The South African highschool IT curriculum is outdated and not adequately preparing students

Mint releases new desktop OS into already murky Linux desktop waters.

Mozilla keeps up relentless development pace.

Shuttleworth continues on his mission to reshape the desktop

When it comes to open source software, the question that needs to be asked today is not which businesses are using open source – but rather which businesses are not.

Ubuntu Precise Pangolin will make its debut in 2012. This is what you can expect.

Give 2012 a productivity boost with these Android apps. With Android devices on the rise it’s time to consider how best to put your smartphones and tablet PCs to work. Here is a selection of ten Android productivity apps that could give your work a serious boost.

The April release of Ubuntu is all about quality

Windows 8 has learned a lot of cool things from a number of other operating systems but is Microsoft moving backwards where it counts?

Google continues its assault on the browser market with the release of Chrome 14

It’s been coming for years but the operating system as we know it could heading for virtual extinction

It has been 20 years since Linus Torvalds first announced his new operating system. At the time he said that Linux was not much to get excited about, just a hobby that might appeal to a few like-minded developers. As it turned out Linux became a lot more than Torvalds could ever have imagined and far from being a hobby for a handful, Linux is now at the heart of most of the world’s IT.

In the constant battle for performance and lower power consumption some OS makers are preparing for ARM-based server clusters

Amazon’s HTML5 strategy shows the way forward for web publishing. Earlier this month Amazon released a browser-based version of its Kindle reading software. Called the Kindle Cloud reader, the software allows anyone to read their Kindle books in almost any browser.

New releases of two of the world’s most popular browsers hit user desktops. It’s been a busy couple of months for the Mozilla Foundation and Google. Both organizations this week release new versions of their popular browsers. Firefox 6 is the latest release from Mozilla while a Chrome 14 beta shows off some of Google’s plans.