Pre-order registration for the KDE Plasma Active tablet 'Spark' has been closed due to 'overwhelming demand'. "It has been so successful that we've reached our initial production capacity and have closed the pre-order program for now," writes Spark project lead Aaron Seigo on his blog.
Meet 'Ubuntu for Android' - a side-by-side pairing of the Android and Ubuntu OSes on a single phone, the latest part of Canonical's 'multi-device' future for Ubuntu.
Small indie game developer Cube Noir recently gave let us play with their forthcoming ‘text based adventure game’ Incursion. By their nature ‘text based’ games are considered old hat these days; in an era of […]
The results of the recent Ubuntu Sound Theme survey, which asked users to pick a new start up for Ubuntu 12.04 from a shortlist of 4 sounds, are in. Was your favourite chosen? Find out inside...
Vodafone have chosen to stock the Ubuntu One Files app in their custom Android app store "Vodafone AppSelect". The app store, which comes pre-loaded on Vodafone-branded Android mobiles across Europe, provides a range of applications that have gone through Vodafone's thorough app approval process.
The latest update to open-source media player VLC has been released, and brings with it multi-threaded decoding for a variety of popular formats. Read on for easy installation instructions for Ubuntu 11.10.
Unity 5.4 has landed in Ubuntu 12.04 'Precise Pangolin'. The update brings performance, stability and bug fixes, as well as a handful of minor visual changes and features.
Last.FM scrobbling, faster music library scanning and improved album art detection all feature in the latest release of music player Musique.
AIM have no plans to create a messaging client for Ubuntu, a company spokesman has said. The announcement comes after a call to support Ubuntu became the most popular suggestion on their 'User Voice' feedback service.
An auto-updating Twitter stream has been added to the Ubuntu 12.04 installer. The stream shows tweets containing the hashtag #ubuntu, and appears alongside a short blurb on Ask Ubuntu. The slide, titled 'Any Questions?', is the last item shown during installation of Ubuntu.
The fourth and final maintenance release of Ubuntu 10.04 is now available to download.
The developers behind puzzle game Bobby have made the title free to download and play. Whilst the game is devilishly simple in theory - you, as a jet-pack powered hero called Bobby, have to knock bouncing balls into the spiralling vortex - it's a lot (read: much) harder in practice.