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Disrupting the Data Economy: Innovation and technology-led bravery

Rafael Laguna on Jan 25, 2016

From both a political and a technological perspective, the landscape of Internet services in 2016 is one under massive strain and transformation. There is enormous pressure on companies to innovate and compete, w...

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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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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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Flying start for OX-as-a-Service

guest on Dec 18, 2015

By Joost Pisters, CEO LuxCloud LuxCloud, a leader in Cloud Service Brokerage enablement, has been enabling its Sales Partners to resell cloud services for the last 5 years. Within these years we have seen a lot o...

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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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How the FTC Made Customer Data a Liability for Companies – And How to Fix I...

Rafael Laguna on Nov 9, 2015

It goes without saying that the last few years have seen an enormous surge in data breach activity. Cyber criminals and identity thieves are becoming increasingly adept at penetrating the databases of nearly any ...

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Ethical Design: More than just decoration

Rafael Laguna on Nov 6, 2015

When you think of design greats you think of the likes of James Dyson, Dieter Rems or Jonathan Ive. Creators of beautiful products designed with the end user at heart. But design should be more than this. The tru...

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Snoopers Charter Part 2: Why backdoors won’t work

guest on Nov 4, 2015

Today the UK government will outline new legislation called the Investigatory Powers Bill. According to the Daily Telegraph, the bill doesn’t plan to ban encryption services in general, but it will demand that se...

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What the Safe Harbor Ruling means for Business and Consumers

Chris Latterell on Oct 30, 2015

With the ECJ’s Safe Harbor ruling and, more broadly, the practice of U.S. companies processing E.U. data has been finally recognized to be as unsafe as we’ve always thought.

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