By K.C. Jones, Christmas Day brought a dramatic surge in online traffic to sites that offer music downloads. Hitwise, which monitors Internet traffic trends, reported a 413% increase in traffic ...

Reported by Antony Bruno, Denver.Akamai Technologies has launched a new service that tracks and benchmarks the global Web usage patterns of more than 40 digital music Web sites?including digital music retailers, music information sites and streaming Internet radio destinations. The Net Usage Index for Digital Music measures the global aggregate ...