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RIP Ubuntu Edge, but Ubuntu is still coming to smartphones in 2014
2013-08-22 17:00:59| Extremetech
The Ubuntu Edge, a smartphone that doubles up as as a desktop PC when docked, has unsurprisingly failed to meet its funding goal of $32 million. Canonical is fairly stoic about its failure, issuing a statement that $12.8 million is still the "biggest ever fixed crowdfunding campaign." Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth, speaking to the Guardian newspaper, says that carriers and OEMs are still "definitely interested" in making mid-range Ubuntu-powered smartphones. For now, though, the dream of an ultra-high-spec superphone like the Edge, which doubles up as a desktop PC, is dead.
California on edge as wildfires spread
2013-08-22 15:36:57| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: What was expected to be a bad fire season is turning out to be just that. Nearly a dozen major fires, some touched off by an unusual string of lightning storms, are burning across California wildlands parched by back-to-back dry winters. Twice as much of the state has burned this year as had gone up in flames at this point in 2012. One of the worst blazes is the Rim Fire, which raged out of control for a fifth day Wednesday in nearly inaccessible terrain west of Yosemite National Park. Hundreds...
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Ubuntu Edge smartphone misses crowdfunding goal by $19 million
2013-08-22 13:31:08| InfoWorld: Top News
Canonical raised only $12.8 million of the $32 million it wanted for the production of the Ubuntu-based Edge smartphone. Close to 20,000 people backed the project, which ran from July 22 to Aug. 21, but that wasn't enough to reach the ambitious goal. The final sum raised has still made the Edge fund-raiser the biggest fixed-target crowdfunding campaign, so far, according to Canonical.
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Ubuntu Edge smartphone probably not going to get funded
2013-08-21 18:39:03| InfoWorld: Top News
The Ubuntu Edge, an innovative smartphone concept that is designed to double as a dockable PC, appears unlikely to meet its $32 million funding goal by the IndieGoGo campaign deadline of 11:59 p.m. PST.
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DENMARK: Carlsberg H1 profits edge up, but Europe problems persist
2013-08-21 11:43:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Market share gains in Asia and Eastern Europe have helped Carlsberg post a rise in first-half profits but on-going challenges in Western Europe dragged on its performance.
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