With Broadband, the PC's Siren Call Is Tough to Resist

Hubert B. Herring writes:  "... Just three short years ago — an eternity when you consider the explosive growth of the online juggernaut — regular Internet users already spent 25½ hours a month sitting at the computer, the Nielsen/NetRatings study says. By now that has shot up to 30½ hours — fully an hour a day. ...¶  Why so much time at the PC? Surely because, as Nielsen/NetRatings' figures also show, broadband use has exploded, to 68 percent of Web users today from 33 percent three years ago. ..."  Link:  New York Times.