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Leave your doors unlocked please, the data police are coming.

Rafael Laguna on Oct 14, 2014

Depending on who you listen to, encrypting your data can be a good thing, or it can be a bad thing.

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Migration – Cover your bases!

Maurice Hofmann on Oct 2, 2014

During my talk at #OXS14 (here is the video) I spoke about how user migration presents an opportunity to engage with your user base. I talked a lot about the psychology and the emotional aspects that we need to f...

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Introducing Hostpoint Cloud Office. More than just email.

guest on Sep 2, 2014

Web hosting for everyone!’ was our motto when Hostpoint first switched on our servers back in 2001, and thirteen years later, this is truer than ever. Besides some of the biggest businesses in Switzerland includi...

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How has the IaaS market changed and how does it impact hosters?

guest on Aug 19, 2014

The competitive IaaS landscape continues to change and this has had an indelible impact on the hosting market. We take a look at the recent movements and discuss the key trends that are currently in motion and se...

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Why Open APIs are a business and marketing issue and not just a technical o...

Maurice Hofmann on Aug 12, 2014

OX App Suite in its latest version features even more openness and a greater integration potential for external products than previous releases. Sales, professional services and pretty much anyone else at OX will...

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Happy Birthday, America. Germany Might Understand Freedom Better than You

Chris Latterell on Jul 8, 2014

You know what? John Oliver was right: “Apple could put the entire text of Mein Kampf in the iTunes user agreement and you would just be, like, ‘– uh, um: agree – agree’.”

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Have you got the message yet? The modern messaging landscape still includes...

Chris Latterell on Jul 1, 2014

Email, as we know it today, is just over 20 years old – and has only been in widespread use for considerably less than that. But there has been no shortage of those wishing to tell us that as a medium it is dead ...

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Breaking down the Internet’s walled gardens

Rafael Laguna on Jun 30, 2014

It’s no secret to those of us in the open source community how open technology brings a necessary visibility and transparency that creates countless opportunities to improve and enhance technology. Yet, despite t...

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Open-Xchange adds reseller deployment model; opex, time to market

guest on Jun 25, 2014

Summary: Open-Xchange introduced a new deployment model for the App Suite messaging and collaboration platform called OX-as-a-Service.

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Can WebRTC defeat the OTT?

Rafael Laguna on Jun 23, 2014

Fixed line telecom and cable providers have been faced with the problem of being a ‘dumb pipe’ for some time now, while mobile carriers have seen profit margins grow. But in an age of 4G LTE connections, mobile o...

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