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Sarah Dickinson

Sarah Dickinson

57 posts

Global Head of PR, IoT & Devices

Sarah manages IoT communications at Canonical. With a keen interest in technology, she has experience working in global B2B and B2C companies including Toshiba and Tektronix.

Sarah Dickinson
28 November 2018

Six reasons why developers choose Ubuntu Desktop

Desktop Article

Used in more than 240 countries, by governments, enterprises, and consumers alike, Ubuntu Desktop is the number one Linux operating system (OS) in the world. Ubuntu Desktop is used by leading technology companies in no small part down to the popularity amongst software developers for which it is an attractive platform for a diverse range ...

Sarah Dickinson
15 October 2018

Self-containing dependencies leads LogMeIn to publish their first Snap

Cloud and server Article

LogMeIn is one of the world’s top 10 public SaaS companies, and a market leader in communication & conferencing, identity & access, and customer engagement & support solutions, making well-known products such as GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, LogMeIn Central, LastPass, and Bold360. The company is headquartered in Boston, US, with additional lo ...

Sarah Dickinson
29 August 2018

Moving towards a software defined IoT business model

Internet of Things Article

Fig 1: The journey to a software-defined business model The opportunity to capitalise on the internet of things is significant for many companies, but that doesn’t mean that it is a straightforward journey to success. Companies need to analyse their current business practices and evaluate where benefits can be gained – and for some this ...

Sarah Dickinson
28 June 2018

Fing snaps up 30,000 customers with a secure, future-proof IoT device

Internet of Things Article

The number of IoT devices set to be in use worldwide is due to explode depending on the source over the next couple of years. According to Gartner, the figure is set to be as much as 20.4 bn devices by 2020 with consumer products representing 63% of this figure. Many of these will be low-cost ...

Sarah Dickinson
19 June 2018

Zenkit: The influence of developer communities in progressing snaps

Desktop Article

Last month, Zenkit published their project management tool as a snap. For those not familiar with Zenkit, they introduced themselves in a guest blog at the time the snap was published which can be read here. Since then, we caught up with Philipp Beck, Full Stack Developer at Zenkit, to discover his opinion on snaps ...

Sarah Dickinson
23 May 2018

Decreasing the complexity of IoT adoption with Edge as a Service model

Internet of Things Article

  Last week, much of the IoT industry descended on Santa Clara, California, for the annual IoT World trade show. One of the exhibitors present were Rigado who Canonical partnered with earlier this year to deploy Ubuntu Core on their IoT gateways primarily targeted at commercial applications such as smart lighting and asset tracking. Rigad ...

Sarah Dickinson
18 May 2018

Creating the world’s first robotic tennis ball collector with Ubuntu

Internet of Things Article

From manufacturing plants to homes, robots have become a staple in the modern world for making life easier. This ability to boost convenience is what the startup company, Tennibot, is looking to bring to tennis courts around the world. Tennibot is the world’s first robotic tennis ball collector, or alternatively, an autonomous ball boy.  ...

Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2018

Ora as a snap: ensuring users are benefiting from the latest version

Desktop Article

Ora is a user-friendly task management service with integrated time-tracking, reports, list view, git integrations and many other features. Often referred to by users as ‘the sweet spot between Trello and Jira’, Ora provides almost a complete match of Jira’s feature set but in a new and more accessible way. Last month, Ora launched their ...

Sarah Dickinson
16 April 2018

BotsAndUs build a social robot on Ubuntu

Internet of Things Article

As robotics become increasingly prevalent in all sectors and expand outside the manufacturing industry, it is no surprise that IDC predicts worldwide spending on robotics to reach $103bn in 2018. A UK based startup, BotsAndUs, are looking to capitalise on this opportunity and have created an advanced social robot – Bo – primarily for use ...

Sarah Dickinson
29 March 2018

Growing ONLYOFFICE through snaps and the Snap Store

Desktop Article

  ONLYOFFICE is a project developed by IT experts from the Latvian company Ascensio System SIA. WIth ONLYOFFICE business solutions, which are the primary product range, you can run a fast and secure cloud office that comprises powerful online document editors and multiple business tools (CRM, project management, mail etc). You are also ab ...

Sarah Dickinson
26 March 2018

CircleCI evangelist looks to snaps to bridge cross-distro divide

Desktop Article

CircleCI helps developers test software and deploy it quickly but at a high standard. It is a key element of many developer’s DevOps toolsets. Ricardo Feliciano wears two hats – one as an avid community advocate (under the guise of FelicianoTech) and the other as Developer Evangelist at CircleCI. Ricardo joined the Snapcraft Summit in ...

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