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Encryption For All – WhatsApp enables encryption by default

Neil Cook on Apr 6, 2015

At Open-Xchange we value the privacy and security of our customer’s data, and with the OX Guard product we have been promoting encrypted email for everyone (not just security professionals) for several years. In ...

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Ohhh nooo, They did it again! API not A-OK

Rafael Laguna on Mar 13, 2015

We hate to be the bearers of bad news. Recently, we had to inform customers that the subscription capability of the OX App Suite contacts module that pulled data from users’ Facebook accounts, had to be disabled ...

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Changing of the Guard

ReneOtto on Mar 5, 2015

Even Tim Cook has jumped on the email encryption and privacy bandwagon this week, telling the Daily Telegraph last week that privacy is a “human right” and that if Apple does not encrypt email data the people it ...

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Opening Up to Trusted Email Services

The Editorial Team on Feb 26, 2015

There has never been any doubt that email is the one digital medium that businesses and consumers alike depend on the most. It’s a highly versatile tool in terms of simplicity, flexibility and universality that h...

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Could a visit from Uncle Oscar move more people towards encrypted email?

Chris Latterell on Feb 20, 2015

Documentary films don’t normally get the same exposure as Hollywood blockbusters, but one night a year, an exceptional feature length documentary has a chance to access a new global audience and consciousness. Th...

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There is no internet of things: There is only the internet of data, stupid!

Chris Latterell on Feb 9, 2015

Fridges that reorder food when running low, ovens that have dinner ready, waiting as you get in from work- this is the utopic dream we are being sold with ‘The Internet of things.’ The illusion that the IoT can e...

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Setting the Standard

guest on Dec 19, 2014

By Carsten Dirks, COO, Open-Xchange Standards are perhaps one of the least thought about, but in some ways, most important aspects of modern life. It’s hard to imagine a life without widespread compatibility of p...

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The Google Apps Trap: Should your customers’ data be subject to Google’s te...

Chris Latterell on Oct 15, 2014

In 2014, there are more than five million businesses using Google Apps, a staggering figure for something that is essentially a consumer product with very few modifications for business use. Everyone knows that G...

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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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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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