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Houston, TX (PRWEB) January 18, 2012 CouponBuzz.com announced today their opposition to the SOPA and PIPA legislation that is currently before the House of Representatives and the Senate. They join their protest to that of more than 700,000 other internet sites against the anti-piracy legislation, among them such internet giants as Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, Craigslist and thousands of smaller entities like CouponBuzz.com. Wikipedia?s protest seems to be garnering the most media attention, stating on their homepage that "For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia.? Although Wikipedia?s response is perhaps the most dramatic and defiant, many of the websites protesting the legislation feature a short message on their homepage about the potential dam...

Leipzig, Germany (PRWEB) November 28, 2007 ipoque, provider of solutions for Internet traffic management, analyzed the Internet traffic in five regions of the world between August and September 2007. The results are being published in a study. With comprehensive statistics about user behavior, it provides a unique overview of the Internet's current state. While the emphasis of last year's ipoque survey was on peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, this year it also includes data about Internet telephony (VoIP), Skype, video streaming, instant messaging (IM), file hosting and encrypted P2P protocols. Three petabytes of anonymous data representing over one million users in Australia, Eastern Europe, Germany, the Middle East and Southern Europe have been analyzed. The results for these different regions vary considerably. High Proportion of P2P, Movies most Popular P2P file sharing still generates by far the most Internet traffic. Its average share varies between 49 percent in the M...

Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) September 14, 2010 Internet users curious about the speed of their broadband connection can now benefit from a time-limited offer from PC performance specialists, Uniblue. Uniblue is the developer of several award-winning PC utilities that can keep a computer functioning at optimal levels: ????RegistryBooster ? keeps a Windows registry clean and free from errors ????SpeedUpMyPC ? improves overall PC performance ????DriverScanner ? ensures all drivers are kept up to date ????PowerSuite ? all three of the above in one package Measuring Internet connection speed is an important part of system maintenance. The free tool available from testinternetspeed.org does this quickly and easily by measuring file upload and download times and then generates a report on the findings. From the results, it can be seen if Providers? connection speeds are as advertised ? if not, something could be amiss, and it could be worth contacting the broadba...