Ubuntu Edge Smartphone crowdfunding campaign

Today Ubuntu  are announcing the Ubuntu Edge campaign on Indigogo, for a fully converged, beautiful, sleek, phone that can run Ubuntu, Android, and boot a full desktop.

Today they have a special lower price of $600 - be sure to snap it up!! For more info and support the project click here.

SOL, The world first fully solar-powered laptop

It never needs to be plugged in, and of course powered by Ubuntu.

With a rugged design, durability and a solar array that allows you to work wherever you are you can take SOL with you to the most remote places on earth.

When you need to share your adventure, just "plug" into the sun. SOL is engineered for extreme energy efficiency. When the sun isn't there at night you can run it all night long with its powerful battery.

Read more about SOL here

Ubuntu in the media

In the second episode of the fourth season of Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman we could see Ubuntu running in a machine of the Free University of Brussels. They use Ubuntu to run a "small program that in some way behaves like a real person" to "measure what the Internet is doing". "Their goal is to find out whether is becoming a global brain" .

GNU/Linux is becoming more and more popular among the scientific community. You can find this in the minute 39 aprox.

Listen to online radio stations on Ubuntu

Great Little Radio Player (or GLRP) is an application that offers you the possibility to listen to a huge list; (over 300 stations) of online radio stations on Ubuntu and other distros without using a web browser.

It comes with a clean Qt interface and lots of features such as:

• Large collection of radio stations
• Notify-OSD desktop notifications
• App Indicator support
• Ability to add new radio stations
• Filter system (e.g. sort stations by country, genre ...)

To install GRP on Ubuntu, simply download the .deb and install it with Software Center, GDebi or terminal.

Copy, the new cloud storage service

Copy is a Dropbox style cloud storage service (synchronized folder on your PC). It works better on Linux than Dropbox. It offers 5 GB free account but if you register your new account through this link you will get 20 GB free finally. Highly recommended. After registering you can use your own link to invite other people and get 5 GB extra for you and your referred friend.

Jitsi is an open source alternative to Skype

Secure video calls, conferencing, chat, desktop sharing, file transfer, support for your favorite OS, and IM network. All this, and more, in Jitsi, the most complete and advanced open source communicator. Jitsi lets you connect to Facebook, GoogleTalk, XMPP, Windows Live, Yahoo!, AIM, and ICQ so that you can chat to all your friends in the simplest possible way.

News about Ubuntu Voice Recognition

Inside Palaver: Linux Speech Recognition that Taps Google's Voice Technology 

Linux.com has interviewed James McClain, creator of Palaver. You can also can find a videotutorial to install and try Palaver