Election Drove Record Internet Traffic

The Internet didn’t break yesterday, and if there was ever a day for that to happen it was Election Day 2008 in America. Akamai’s Net Usage Index for News recorded the highest number of website visitors per minute in history, placing Barack Obama’s historic win at the top at the chart.

Heaviest Internet Users Also Heavy TV Viewers

Nearly 31 percent of in-home Internet activity takes place while the user is watching television, which indicates there is a large amount of simultaneous Internet and television usage, according to a new report from Nielsen's TV/Internet Convergence Panel.

Google Groups Search Moves To Include More Forums

Internet forums can be invaluable resources; they're where experts on all sorts of subjects gather to discuss problems and new developments, or simply make friends.  So it's more than a little important that the Google Groups site now attempts to return search results from all over the Internet.

Apple And Microsoft Earnings Are Near Equal

A friend sent me this link comparing revenue, profit, and cash positions for Microsoft and Apple. I almost fell off my chair when reading this data from Microsoft’s and Apple’s most recent quarterly filing: