LONDON, April 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — – Research Reveals Business Uptake, Benefits and Barriers – Iconnyx Urges Industry to Share Best Practice Examples Small businesses are using cloud predominantly for storage (67%) and web site hosting (56%) according to a recent survey by Iconnyx, the managed IT and web hosting company. Research of over 300 small business leaders conducted over two events in the past month shows these to be the typical SMB applications, followed by business continuity and CRM (both 39%). The majority of SMBs who had implemented a cloud infrastructure reported spending 10-30 percent of their working day in the cloud (44%)

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An image from the controversial copyright-focused COICA bill (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a post made this week , the Electronic Freedom Foundation ( www.eff.org ) denounced MasterCard’s support for the passage of the currently-in-the-works Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, which it refers to – presumably glibly – as the “Internet Censorship and Copyright Bill.” While the news of MasterCard’s support for the bill – which could require the credit card company to suspend its services to certain websites considered within the bill’s parameters to be threats for copyright infringement – was first reported in early December, the opinion published this week is based in part on the WikiLeaks saga in late 2010, which saw many service providers shutting down services to the whistle blowing website as a kind of pre-emptive measure.

An image from the controversial copyright-focused COICA bill (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a post made this week , the Electronic Freedom Foundation ( www.eff.org ) denounced MasterCard’s support for the passage of the currently-in-the-works Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, which it refers to – presumably glibly – as the “Internet Censorship and Copyright Bill.” While the news of MasterCard’s support for the bill – which could require the credit card company to suspend its services to certain websites considered within the bill’s parameters to be threats for copyright infringement – was first reported in early December, the opinion published this week is based in part on the WikiLeaks saga in late 2010, which saw many service providers shutting down services to the whistle blowing website as a kind of pre-emptive measure. The EFF post calls out other service providers, including web hosts and domain registrars

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