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Business Poisons – What’s your tonic?

Rafael Laguna on Jan 20, 2016

At last year’s Open-Xchange Summit in Berlin we were privileged enough to enjoy an inspiring keynote from TEDx speaker Jonathan MacDonald. During his talk, entitled “Disrupting the Value-chain: Innovation at Scal...

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2016 – Our Mission Continues

Rafael Laguna on Jan 18, 2016

Dear Friends and Partners of Open-Xchange, 2015 was a phenomenal year at OX. As we look forward to 2016 we wanted to thank you again for your ongoing support and partnership. We’re tremendously happy with the suc...

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Hillary Clinton’s Encryption ‘Manhattan Project’ Idea is a Dud

Rafael Laguna on Dec 23, 2015

It’s sad that our politicians think that tech folks can wave a magic wand and somehow make it possible for the government to read everyones’ messages without that also being a way for the bad guys to get in.

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Paris Has Reopened the Encryption Debate – Here’s Why It Shouldn’t

Rafael Laguna on Dec 21, 2015

The wave of terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, over the past month have reignited familiar feelings of grief, fear and anxiety over new threats. And as we normally see whenever a new, dist...

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Exposing Google’s New Business Model of Data Mining Students

Rafael Laguna on Dec 9, 2015

The EFF’s discovery that Google is using the Chromebooks it provided to public schools to collect the search and browsing data of students unfortunately comes as no real surprise. Google is, after all, in the bus...

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2015: The Year Privacy Went Centre-stage…

Rafael Laguna on Dec 7, 2015

Never far from the front-pages of every newspaper, magazine, broadcast, Tweet or social media post globally, 2015 has been the defining year in propelling privacy and data issues into the public consciousness. Fi...

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Open-Xchange and Hostway: A Match made in Open Source

Chris Latterell on Nov 6, 2015

When it comes to open source, collaboration is the name of the game. That’s the whole point – that embracing an open, free and democratic Internet means sharing what you know to enrich the web-browsing, email-sen...

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Auf Wiedersehen Safe Harbor

Rafael Laguna on Oct 13, 2015

In its infancy, the ideas of privacy and open access were of little concern for the first computer scientists who used the collection of connected networks that would go on to become the Internet. But since then ...

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Regain Control of Your Messaging Environment with Cloudmark Security Platfo...

guest on Sep 23, 2015

Cloudmark Security Platform is a high performance messaging security solution that enables industry-leading protection against malicious threats such as, spam, phishing and malware, which result in user data thef...

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The Wild Wild West of Privacy and Data Laws

Chris Latterell on Sep 22, 2015

There’s a new sheriff in town when it comes to data protection in the Europe – EU Commissioner Věra Jourová. Her weapon of choice? The Umbrella Agreement.

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