Headlines, Stories from Abroad

A cyberattack prevented the online transmission of results from last weekend's congressional elections in Colombia.

There will be more mobile Internet users in China than the entire population of the US by the end of this year.

It is time to stop thinking of cyberspace as a new medium or an agglomeration of new media. It is a new continent, rich in resources but in parts most perilous. It is being nationalized rapidly.

A look at Google's legal trouble in Italy.

For years, many of China's best and brightest left for the United States, where high-tech industry was more cutting-edge. But Mark Pinto is moving in the opposite direction.

The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attempting to tighten their control of the Net, but at the same time, increasingly inventive netizens demonstrate mutual solidarity by mobilizing when necessary.

The Chinese government on Tuesday appeared to set the foundation for Internet giant Google to pull out of the country, with one spokesman contending that the company's potential departure would be an "individual business act" and another warning Google to obey Chinese law whether it leaves China or not.

The Google-China duel represents perhaps the biggest showdown over Internet free speech, a growing priority in the Obama administration, as it brings to light not only China's tight controls on online information, but limitations on the Internet in many other countries, as well.

A letter demanding Google Inc. compensate advertising agents if it withdraws from China probably isn't genuine, said a sales official at one of the companies named as a signatory.

European public broadcasters are calling on lawmakers to make it easier to offer their programming over the Internet, saying cumbersome copyright practices restrict their ability to develop new digital services and prolong the fragmentation of the European television landscape.