Interesting! I’m researching the [tag-ice]online storage[/tag-ice] competition recently. Definitely a place that’s heating up. Swisscom seems to strive for a role as a significant player in this market. They just invested 2,3 million Euros in Diino, a Swedish online storage firm. Some time before they partnered with FAST LTA to host the promising Swiss online [tag-tec]storage[/tag-tec] service Fotobank.de.

I started a new business today. During the last 4 years I was contacted quite a lot of times from students that were let down by their supervisors at Universities and Fachhochschulen (Universities for Applied Sciences as the call themselves in English). Only recently I decided to help them with a structured information package that eases their pain.

Das ist der Grund warum Projekte wie Zimbra oder Etelos vor Google zu reihen sind: erstere können auf eigenen Servern oder vertrauenswürdigen ASPs gehostet werden.

futurezone.ORF.at IT-Chronik: “Als Grund wurde die Tatsache genannt, dass alle BlackBerry-Daten über Server in den USA und in Großbritannien laufen.”

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I spent the last 24 hours (subtract sleeping from that) with first watching very impressive Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg “unleashing” the facebook OS then aside from my daily business investigating into standards for e-portfolio applications (helpful node Scott Wilson). So what’s the connection you might ask. Well while I was browsing the specs from IMS yesterday Zuckerberg’s video popped up many times in front of my virtual eye

So what’s at stake in the e-portfolio business?