The world has become smaller. The connections established by e-mail and websites have significantly shortened the distances between people. We can live in London and shop in Johannesburg; we can be based in Brussels and run a business out of Bombay. … more

European governments are not doing enough to improve online security - leaving the entire continent vulnerable to cyberattack, according to a new parliamentary investigation. … more

As a student of the Yale Law School more than 40 years ago, I audited a course in conflicts of laws taught by the Israeli academic Avigdor Levontin. His course began with the 1808 English case of Buchanan v Rucker, in which the plaintiff sued a nonresident of Tobago in Tobago courts by posting a summons near the Tobago court house door. … more

Tencent, the world’s third-largest internet company by market capitalisation, said China’s crackdown on mobile text messaging was starting to hurt its business. … more

The National Broadband Plan that the Federal Communications Commission released Tuesday is ambitious in the right way, staking out such immodest national goals as building the most innovative and fastest wireless networks on the planet and vastly improving the wired infrastructure within a decade. But the commission moved so cautiously toward those goals, it’s hard to see at this point how it’s going to reach them. … more

Google and a group of telecommunications companies are about ready to turn on a fast Internet cable running under the Pacific Ocean from the U.S. to Japan, increasing bandwidth by about 20 percent and giving Google its own connection to Asia. … more

A spate of suicides at France Télécom has left the telecommunications company facing legal action after a prosecutor opened a manslaughter investigation in connection with the death of a technician in eastern France. … more

The growth of illegal file-sharing could cost European countries 1.2m jobs and €240bn (£215bn) by 2015, an industry report claims. … more

iiNet has lodged a “notice of contention” with the Federal Court in the hope of clarifying two of its defences that were rejected by Federal Court Judge Dennis Cowdroy in its recent legal battle against the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT). … more

Google and Intel have teamed with Sony to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes. … more