Latinos comprise 14% of the U.S. adult population and about half of this growing group (56%) goes online. By comparison, 71% of non-Hispanic whites and 60% of non-Hispanic blacks use the internet. Several socio-economic characteristics that are often intertwined, such as low levels of education and limited English ability, largely explain the gap in internet use between Hispanics and non-Hispanics. Some Latinos who do not use the internet are connecting to the communications revolution in a different way--via cell phone. Six in ten Latino adults have a cell phone and half send or receive text messages. Latinos from Mexico are less likely than those from the rest of Latin America to use the internet. This analysis is based primarily upon the merging of data from two surveys--the 2006 National Survey of Latinos, and the 2006 Hispanic Religion Survey--both of which were conducted by International Communications Research on behalf of Pew Research Center projects during the same time period, using analogous methodologies. (Contains 9 figures.) [This report was also produced by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, an initiative of the Pew Research Center.]