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Tag Archives: ubuntuontv
Portuguese Store Worten Reveal Promo Ad for New Ubuntu Netbook
A video advert for Ubuntu has been added to the YouTube channel of Portugal’s most well known electronics retailer Worten.
Click on inside to view the advert and learn more about the device it promotes…
Ubuntu 11.04 Gets Positive Review On Indian News Station CNN-IBN
Ubuntu bagged itself some mainstream media exposure this weekend when it was reviewed on Indian news channel ‘CNN-IBN’.
Review (in english) can be found by clicking on in…
Samsung Remove Ubuntu Logo From Galaxy Ad [Updated with video]
Seeing the Ubuntu logo sailing alongside hundreds of Android App icons in a TV spot for Samsung’s Galaxy S II was a strange, but not unwarranted, sight to begin with.
But Uncle Sammy appear to have had a change of heart; a ‘new’ version of the same advert is running in India with one small difference: no more Ubuntu logo.
Disney to Produce Penguin Film… Called ‘Tux’.
Deadline.com are reporting that Disney have hired Night At The Museum writer Robert Ben Garant to pen an animated feature about a talking Penguin called, you guessed it, ‘Tux’.
The Girl Who Didn’t Want Ubuntu [Video]
Alligators in sewers, lucky escapes from hook-handed serial killers and the unpalatable notion that we all eat 8 spiders a year whilst snoozing: all are Urban myths.
Until recently I assumed that the well-known story of a girl from Wisconsin USA, whose inadvertent purchase of a Dell laptop running Ubuntu saw her dropping out of her online college classes, was like all of the example above, a load of hot-air.
Turns out it actually happened.
Ubuntu Logo Appears in Samsung Galaxy S II Ad
The Ubuntu logo can be clearly seen on screen in the latest promotional spot for Samsung’s Galaxy S II Android phone.
Just what is Linux mascot Tux doing in a TV cereal commercial? [Video]
Reader Dexter S. was watching TV when a commercial for ‘Fruit Loops’ cereal flashed up on his screen with a rather familiar face in tow…
Ubuntu rocks up in Google science fair video
Google recently-announced an online science fair for 13-18 year-olds, tasked with finding the next ‘Sergey Brin’. Or something similar. But eagle eyed readers watching the video show reel to promote the event may just spot a familiar guest lurking in the background… (Tip: Skip to 1:00) Thanks to Cordell
Linux on TV: ‘The Glades’ – detectives run GNOME on a Windows-branded PC
Benedict ‘the.abyzz’ Mueller dropped off news of the following in the OMG! Ubuntu! inbox, so thanks to him! The Glades, a new A&E Network drama television series that is apparently ‘a bit like CSi’, was flying the flag for FOSS in its premiere episode. The detectives, no doubt eager to solve their case, save money [...]
Ubuntu on TV: The IT Crowd
Some of the more-hip readers amongst you have tweeted my attention towards this little beauty: -You can clearly see an Ubuntu logo on the the back of one of the characters’ monitor from Channel 4’s geek comedy ‘The IT Crowd’ (which has just started a new series o’er here.) Nice spot! Article originally appeared on [...]
Daily Digest: Windicator Mock-ups, QuickShot Plans & Ubuntu On TV
Winidicator Mock-ups Over on the increasingly-dense-to-navigate Ayatana mailing list Daniel Planas posted some wonderful mock-ups of his take on the “Windicators†pencilled in to feature in Ubuntu 10.10. Aside from stirring some discussion the mock-ups also caught the attention of the Mark Shuttleworth himself who seemed quite taken with them! QuickShot The QuickShot team have [...]
Ubuntu Used In Doctor Who
It seems the Naismith’s work on The “Immortality†gate in Doctor Whos’ festive finale ‘The End Of Time’ was done using computers running none-other than our very own awesome OS Ubuntu!Take a closer peek… Whilst it isn’t Karmic Koala running (karmic has a centred logo) it’s still a version Ubuntu through-and-through! Super props to Popey [...]