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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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PRIVACY INSIGHT: Shoot the Messenger

Rafael Laguna on Apr 30, 2019

In March, Mark Zuckerberg published a blog post titled “A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking”, outlining Facebook’s latest goals and addressing the company’s plans to integrate Messenger, Instagram and ...

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HostingJournalist.com Interviews Open-Xchange Co-Founder Rafael Laguna at C...

Rafael Laguna on Mar 29, 2019

Over hundred of the world’s largest hosting and telecommunications companies including 1&1, GoDaddy, Rackspace, KPN, Liberty Global, Proximus, and Vodafone are using Open-Xchange (OX) software, but what makes...

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For the 5th consecutive year, OX is a “Top Player” in Radicati 2019 Market ...

John Broomfield on Mar 21, 2019

It’s been another busy year at Open-Xchange, with the team focusing on new product launches, championing our vision of open-source software, and communicating the benefits of open source to the global community. ...

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Can Chat Over IMAP Challenge WhatsApp and Slack?

Rafael Laguna on Mar 18, 2019

The headline in the local German press read, "The German Attack on WhatsApp.” German entrepreneur Rafael Laguna is looking to counter the dominance of Facebook's messaging services WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger...

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Can Facebook ‘clear’ its own ‘history’ with its new tool

Rafael Laguna on Mar 6, 2019

Last week, Facebook announced that it will soon launch its “clear history” tool. The function, which was first announced publicly at the peak of the Cambridge Analytica debacle, will reportedly allow users to see...

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Wie ein neuer Whatsapp-Konkurrent entstehen soll

Rafael Laguna on Feb 21, 2019

Kommunikation spielt eine wichtige Rolle im Netz. Einige wenige Player beherrschen jedoch den Markt. Der Software-Unternehmer Rafael Laguna möchte der Dominanz von Facebook und Whatsapp etwas entgegensetzen. Sein...

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