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The PRISM effect: how data privacy and location are challenging European ho...

guest on Nov 5, 2013

We have talked with hosting companies in Europe over the last six months or so to gauge their reactions to the revelations about alleged spying and data privacy breaches, and to see what effect these have had on ...

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Who should control how you and your friends´ personal information is used

The Editorial Team on Nov 1, 2013

Personal information about the people in our lives is typically kept in different places. These places can be one or more email accounts, one or more social/professional networks or one or more messaging/chat ser...

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You always meet twice – at OX Summit

Chris Latterell on Aug 8, 2013

OX Summit partner and German startup ProfitBricks was founded in 2010 by Achim Weiss and Andreas Gauger, industry veterans who built 1&1 Internet into one of the world’s top Web and application services provi...

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Locking in your data…how about the Future?!

Chris Latterell on Jul 5, 2013

As an American, I am always excited about this time of year as my country’s birthday examines the blood, sweat and years (now some 237 of them officially) it took to get this far. The future that my forefathers f...

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Email: not dead, evolving

Chris Latterell on Jul 1, 2013

Periodically people claim the death knell for email, citing new and emerging communication channels as the rightful successor. This pattern has only increased recently with the rise of social media, and in partic...

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Beyond Telecommunications: How to evolve a business model to a secure offer...

Rafael Laguna on Jun 4, 2013

Late last week we were greeted with the news that BT, the UK’s largest telecoms provider, is to drop Yahoo! as the provider of its email platform for over 6 million active email accounts. That’s a lot of users to...

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Join the Cloud Conversation and make an Impact!

Chris Latterell on May 2, 2013

Open-Xchange along with North Bridge and GigaOM Research are pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey!

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Why Yahoo integrates DropBox for email platform

guest on Apr 17, 2013

Guest Blog by Philbert Shih, Structure Research

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Engage with Open-Xchange at WorldHostingDay, Rust

Chris Latterell on Mar 25, 2013

No joke: WorldHostingDays global is less than a week away. I cannot believe how quickly Q114 has flown by, but here we are – on the brink of experiencing another WHD with over 5,000 partners and peers from the ho...

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The feasibility of the development of a European Network

Rafael Laguna on Mar 18, 2013

Neelie Kroes, responsible for the European Commission’s Digital Agenda, said at CeBIT last week in her speech to an audience which included Chancellor Merkel and Prime Minister David Cameron that after the Snowde...

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