Shuttleworth sets sights on smartphones
Mark Shuttleworth, the South African billionaire who sold his young, Cape Town-based start-up Thawte Consulting to VeriSign for US$575m and who then went on to spearhead the creation of the open-source Ubuntu Linux operating system, has now set his sights on shaking up the global smartphone business. Shuttleworth
Linux on the desktop: what went wrong?
Linux, the free operating system that brought professional-grade computing to the lowly PC, has come a long way since doing something as simple as switching off meant performing secret handshakes or offering arcane prayers to the computer gods such as computername ~ # shutdown -h now. Today, practically all Linux distributions
TechCentral’s best-read stories of 2011
It’s almost the end of another busy year in SA’s technology industry. We know what our favourite stories were in 2011, but which articles did you, TechCentral’s readers, pore over the most? These are the pieces, in ascending order from 10 to one, that generated the most reads during the year
ZA Tech Show: Episode 183 – ‘Razor sharp’
Fresh in from Nokia World, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are joined by Ben Kelly to discuss Nokia’s new device line-up, Sony buying out Sony Ericsson, Motorola’s new RAZR Android device, bendy-screen gadgets, Ubuntu on smartphones and tablets, and much more
Ubuntu Linux coming to phones, tablets
Ubuntu Linux, the free and open-source operating system, will power tablet computers, cellular phones, TVs and smart screens in cars and elsewhere, Mark Shuttleworth, the South African behind the software announced in a blog post on Monday. The software will support
Vodafone Webbook review: cheap and cheerful Ubuntu netbook
Cellular network operator Vodacom recently launched a netbook, the Vodafone Webbook, that, at R1 499, it hopes will give South Africans an affordable entry into personal computing. TechCentral put the Webbook through its paces. The computer, which runs the
Mark Shuttleworth on patents, tablets and the future of Ubuntu
TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod caught up with Mark Shuttleworth, the man behind Ubuntu Linux, on Thursday and asked him about the future of Linux, patent battles in the software industry, his views on Apple and his future plans
Vodacom’s Linkbook Linux netbook reviewed
For years, Nicholas Negroponte, chairman emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, punted the idea of a US$100 laptop. His idea was that a low-cost machine, ruggedised for conditions in the developing world, would transform education in poorer countries by putting computing and information in the hands of millions of children for the [...]
Shuttleworth to step down as CEO of Ubuntu’s Canonical
SA’s Mark Shuttleworth has decided to step down as CEO of Canonical, the corporate sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Shuttleworth says in a post on his blog, published on Thursday, that chief operating officer Jane Silber will take over as CEO from March. Shuttleworth says he will continue to be actively involved with [...]
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