57 posts by Sarah Dickinson
Desktop
elementary on why snaps are right for their Linux distro
by Sarah Dickinson on 11 October 2017
elementary is the company behind the elementary OS Linux distribution and the associated app store. Celebrating their tenth anniversary this year, elementary...
Desktop
Heroku as a snap: talking security, Snapcraft & daily updates
by Sarah Dickinson on 4 October 2017
Created 10 years ago and now owned by Salesforce, Heroku is a hosted cloud platform as a service (PaaS) which makes it easy for developers to run apps and...
Internet of Things
How to pick a winning IoT business model – Infographic
by Sarah Dickinson on 31 July 2017
The potential for IoT is huge but many businesses are still grappling with how it can benefit their organisation and how exactly to get started. Canonical...
Internet of Things
TechnoSec and Ubuntu Core help DE.OL transition to a smart factory
by Sarah Dickinson on 12 July 2017
The industrial internet of things market (IIoT) is estimated to reach US$ 195.47bn by 2022 according to Markets and Markets. A number of companies in this...
Internet of Things
AZLOGICA use Ubuntu Core for customised IoT agricultural solutions
by Sarah Dickinson on 3 July 2017
Shrimps are now considered as the most lucrative seafood product with demand growing from consumers due to their high nutritional value. This is reflected in...
Internet of Things
How Ubuntu helped InnovaPOS revolutionise the vending machine industry
by Sarah Dickinson on 3 July 2017
The smart vending machines market is on the rise with estimates of 2.7 million to be sold by 2020 with Asia Pacific predicted to be the fastest growing region...
Internet of Things
Ubuntu ranked as 2nd most used IoT OS by Eclipse Foundation survey
by Sarah Dickinson on 17 May 2017
Last week we posted a blog on programming languages following the Eclipse Foundation 2017 IoT survey results. This week we look at the findings from a...
Internet of Things
Why language choices can be irrelevant when choosing the right IoT OS
by Sarah Dickinson on 10 May 2017
This is the first in a series of two blogs exploring the finding from the latest Eclipse Foundation IoT Developer Survey. A couple of months ago we posted a...
Internet of Things
Canonical joins EdgeX Foundry to help unify IoT edge computing
by Sarah Dickinson on 24 April 2017
Fragmentation is the nature of the beast in the IoT space with a variety of non-interoperable protocols, devices and vendors which are the natural results of...