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New survey reveals UK consumers more likely to ditch Facebook services than...

The Editorial Team on Oct 17, 2019

Open-Xchange examines UK consumer trust in the technology sector 33% of Britons expressed a desire to stop using Facebook-owned services; 11% of UK consumers expressed a desire to stop using Huawei products 63% o...

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We can’t rely on venture capital to fuel moonshot innovation

Rafael Laguna on Sep 29, 2019

For investors, fighting climate change or disease will not have the immediate link to profitability that let’s say, urbanization had. When Western nations needed to alleviate rural poverty, urbanization was a sol...

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The "Sign-in with Facebook" problem and the open source solution

Vittorio Bertola on Sep 16, 2019

An effort has started to create an identity management platform that works just like those of the OTTs, but empowers the user rather than the provider, protects the user’s privacy and digital freedoms, and is bas...

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Sorry Facebook, you can’t claw back the public’s trust with a pop-up café

Rafael Laguna on Aug 16, 2019

Facebook has announced that it will be opening pop-up Facebook Cafés across the United Kingdom, in an apparent bid to improve its image in the wake of numerous privacy scandals. The Facebook Café will launch in L...

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A Giant Leap for Innovation: OX CEO joins SprinD as designated Founding Dir...

Rafael Laguna on Jul 17, 2019

Fifty years ago this month, humankind achieved arguably its greatest accomplishment to date and landed two earthlings on the Moon. As many people already know, I have also always been a space geek. And I consider...

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INTRODUCING COI: AN OPEN CHAT SYSTEM BASED ON EMAIL

Vittorio Bertola on Jul 1, 2019

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The Huawei situation: the legal and intellectual property implications for ...

Rafael Laguna on Jun 17, 2019

What are the legal and intellectual property implications of the Huawei ban — and is the ban based on genuine security concerns or political strategy? Will the US's ban of Huawei cause the biggest ever trade war ...

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Sicherheit privater Daten - den Nutzern egal?

Rafael Laguna on May 18, 2019

Das Datenanalyse-Unternehmen Cambridge Analytica erhielt von 2010 bis 2015 Zugang zu den Informationen von bis zu 87 Millionen Facebook-Nutzern , das wurde im März 2018 bekannt. Im Oktober 2018 beschafften sich H...

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Email firm runs millions of mailboxes with Scality object storage

Stephan Martin on May 14, 2019

Germany-based web mailbox provider Open Xchange has deployed around 13PB (petabytes) of Scality object storage to store more than 10 million mailboxes. Scality’s Ring object storage has replaced OpenStack Swift i...

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Despite this week’s quasi-competitive shift, Slack won’t replace email - he...

Rafael Laguna on May 9, 2019

Slack announced this week that it is adding email conversations and calendar integration functions to its app, including the option for non-Slack users to receive messages via email. Is this a game changer for th...

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