Jono Bacon, Ubuntu community manager at Canonical Ltd, has shared some insight on a future option that will be implemented in Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal).
The current state of affairs for Canonical's Ubuntu 12.10 soon-to-be-launched operating system is not good.
Canonical will try to make Ubuntu 13.04 its best release so far and one of the ways to do that is by improving the Dash functionality and its online features. We all remember the storm that took Canonical by surprise when they first announced that Unity Dash searches will be done online, especially in the Home lens.... (read more)
A lot of people expressed security concerns about the integration of an Amazon lens into the Home lens in Ubuntu 12.10, but Canonical is making sure that users’ privacy will be respected.
Mark Shuttleworh, founder of Canonical, tried to address some of the problems that were mentioned by users, but the backlash of this new feature in Ubuntu 12.10 has caused quite a stir in the community.
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A couple of days ago, Mark Shuttleworth defended Canonical's decision of implementing an Amazon lens in Unity's Dash starting with Ubuntu 12.10, but he also shared an interesting view of the market. The backlash from the Amazon lens announcement has been considerable, especially because the lens is directly integrated into the Home lens that lists al... (read more)
Starting with Ubuntu 12.10, Unity Dash will also return answers from Amazon, according to the founder of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth.
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Mark Shuttleworth explains info entered in dash sent to Canonical servers and on to Facebook and Amazon.
So to clarify: even if you disable shopping lens, your data - through dash is recorded by Canonical and available for paying third parties. I mistakenly thought the personal data recording was local to the user, for searches on your own system.
As the Ubuntu 12.10 privacy blunder continues, more and more people find that integrating online searches into Unity Dash has a lot more ramifications than initially thought.
Etienne Perot, an Ubuntu fan with a little more experience than the average users has shown that Mark Shuttleworth statements about the p... (read more)
Ubuntu 12.10 includes a new shopping lens that shows Amazon search results in dash.
The Ubuntu Academic Lens is an Unity Lens that allows all students, teachers or any other end user to search for scientific information directly from Unity Dash.It searches the Google Scholar and Pubmed services and it also integrates with the Zotero bibliographic manager.To install the Unity Academic Lens plugin in your Ubuntu operating system, open a terminal window (hit the CTRL+ALT+T key combi
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