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It would appear that Italian people have a thing for constructing their cities inside or very close to active or dormant volcanoes. This is known for Vesuvius, the mountain that buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, which is located six miles (nine kilometers) away from Naples. Nearly three million peop... |
10 November 2009
05:56 GMT |
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Four Google executives from Italy are facing jail time as a lawsuit brought against the company gets underway in Milan. The issue at heart is a video of four students bullying a colleague with Down's Syndrome posted on Google Video, which stayed on the site for several months before being taken down. The prosecu... |
1 October 2009
09:46 GMT |
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With the increasing pressure from competitors and various organizations it was bound to happen eventually so now Google is getting investigated by competition authorities. But, while most of the attention has been focused on the US, it’s the Italians that made the first move after several newspapers complained ... |
28 August 2009
02:52 GMT |
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Italian archaeologists have recently unearthed the fossilized skeletal remains of a 4,500-year-old warrior on a beach just South of the capital city of Rome. The man, who experts believe was killed by an arrow strike to the chest, was found by an aerial police patrol, of all things. As the authorities surveyed the ar... |
3 August 2009
15:11 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay has never lacked the media's attention, but, lately, it looks like something new is happening every day at the soon-to-be sold site. Recently sued by several US movie studios, again, and ordered to shut down operations in The Netherlands, the site is getting hit with yet another lawsuit, this time... |
1 August 2009
05:49 GMT |
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Samsung Galaxy i7500 is the first Android phone to come from another mobile phone maker than the Taiwan-based HTC, and it seems that the device is able to impress a lot, as the hype around its recent launch in France and Germany was quite high. According to the latest news around the Web, the phone is also heading to... |
13 July 2009
03:42 GMT |
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It seems that the latest iteration of the iPhone will not be so cheap upon arriving to Europe, or at least to some of the countries on the continent. According to a leaked document on Vodafone's roadmap, mobile phone users in Italy will be able to buy the iPhone 3G S for a whopping €619 ($860) for the 16GB ... |
17 June 2009
04:05 GMT |
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Assassin's Creed was one of the most innovative games of 2007, showcasing a unique type of stealth gameplay in which you played an ancient assassin during the Crusades at the beginning of the 1100s in the Middle East. But, sadly, what it gained with scenery and innovation it lost with the repetitive missions and... |
17 April 2009
15:21 GMT |
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After all the rumors we heard last week that Samsung i8910 Omnia HD would lose its moniker and be known only by the model name, we also heard that the Korean mobile phone maker intended to make the device available in some markets under the Omnia HD title, and it seems that Italy will be one of the countries to recei... |
13 April 2009
08:43 GMT |
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Mobile phone users in Italy can now enjoy the first Android-based mobile phone thanks to the cell phone carrier TIM. The HTC Dream (also known as G1) has made it into the country and is now available for purchase with the operator, which offers it with two options, one of them being free of contract. Unlike the G1 t... |
24 March 2009
03:37 GMT |
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Since Antiquity, the leaders of the land that is now Italy had the ambition to connect the country's mainland to the neighboring island of Sicily via a bridge of some sort, regardless of the design. Over the past few decades, discussions about actually building the thing spurred, and a project was finally approv... |
7 March 2009
06:42 GMT |
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Assassin's Creed was one of the most innovative games of 2007, giving players a truly innovative freedom to move and to interact with other characters. In it, you played an assassin named Altair during one of the many crusades waged in the Middle East. Through ways traditional to killers and thieves you needed t... |
27 February 2009
15:21 GMT |
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The District Attorney Office in Como, Italy, is interested in hiring a 22-year old Romanian hacker who is serving a 3-year in prison sentence for electronic fraud, to help it catch online criminals. The hacker has deeply impressed the Italian media and the professors at the Polytechnic University of Milano (Politecni... |
27 February 2009
04:42 GMT |
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Apparently, the Mafia's influence in Italy is as strong as ever, according to central authorities. Police and other law enforcement agencies are currently engaged in a massive crack-down on all the major Sicilian families, who have been planning, over the last months, to make sure that the contract for a new maj... |
19 February 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Intego, a self-touted Mac security specialist, has recently announced its teaming up with Vicenza-based Attiva S.p.A. for a distribution agreement that would ensure the availability of all of Intego's products to Attiva customers in Italy and San Marino. Attiva, founded in 1990, is the leading Italian authorized... |
19 February 2009
09:44 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore is reporting that two new Apple retail stores are set to open in Europe soon. Both Germany and Italy are getting their second stores, with indication that Apple is already hiring staff for Italy's store. Also reported by the source dealing exclusively with Apple retail news is that a fresh Washingt... |
6 February 2009
10:03 GMT |
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The results of the latest study performed by the market research company Synovate reveal that the top three “most beautiful countries,” at least in what men are concerned, are Italy, USA, and Russia. The voters, namely around 10,000 men and women coming from 12 different countries, were asked to nominate ... |
8 December 2008
08:42 GMT |
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It looks like T-Mobile USA is not the world's first mobile carrier to sell RIM's new BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220, as previously announced. That's because Italy's largest operator, namely TIM, has already begun selling the smartphone. This appears on the Italian carrier's official website, offe... |
4 October 2008
05:41 GMT |
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A couple of weeks ago, we reported that the Pirate Bay, the infamous torrent tracker, had been banned in Italy. The first reaction on part of one of the Pirate Bay's founders was a virulent post on the official blog of the tracker, where Italy was described as having a "really bad background, as one of the IFPIs... |
22 August 2008
11:17 GMT |
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Content and copyright owners are constantly fighting against piracy, either by starting organizations with the role of preventing the expansion of illicitly sourced content, or by filing lawsuits against major BitTorrent trackers. The Pirate Bay, one of the most popular communities for sharing and downloading of file... |
11 August 2008
06:15 GMT |
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Ericsson and 3 Italia (Italy's 3) recently announced they have established a cutting-edge 3.5G HSPA commercial network that allows data transfer speeds of up to 5.8 Mbps in uplink. This achievement is an important step towards the deployment of an HSPA Evolution network. With uplink transfer speeds of 5.8 Mbps, ... |
17 July 2008
12:05 GMT |
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Samsung announced that Italy was the first country where the new high-end Samsung i900 Omnia would be available, starting July 22. This comes shortly after Samsung said the Omnia would also be available in Germany, but only starting the 6th of August. The good news for Italian mobile users - besides the fact that ... |
17 July 2008
03:36 GMT |
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MomoDesign, an Italian design company, has recently launched its latest product, the MD-3, which comes as a fashionable handset with mobile TV capabilities. The new phone has a clamshell form factor and two displays, an internal and an external one, that users can turn to 180 degrees and change their places. The in... |
6 June 2008
04:43 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson has partnered with Ducati, the Italian motorcycle manufacturer, in order to soon release a Sony Ericsson Ducati mobile phone. The handset seems to be a special edition of the Z770 clamshell, first announced by the Swedish-Japanese company back in February and already available on the market. Coming to... |
29 May 2008
04:36 GMT |
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Along with the Colosseum in Rome, the leaning tower of Pisa is one of Italy's most recognizable symbols. It was built between 1174 and 1370 in an area with unstable ground, which has been steadily giving way under the 14,000 ton structure causing it to tilt from the original vertical position. In the 1990s, the ... |
28 May 2008
10:57 GMT |
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It seems like Google's Street View function is one of the hottest technologies inside Googleplex since the Mountain View-based company continuously improves the feature. Following the integration of Street View in Google Earth, it looks like Google wants more than that as the famous Street View car was spotted i... |
18 April 2008
09:30 GMT |
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Google has long been the target to many attacks and on the odd occasion it redirects to infected pages. This was the case noticed last week, of many Google Groups links that supposedly had pictures or movies of stars performing various actions (more into the pr0n area, none were giving money away to charity). That wa... |
5 February 2008
12:31 GMT |
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I think I'm having a crush on Lindsay Lohan. OK, that didn't come out right - let's try again: what I was trying (and failing, apparently) to say was that I'm beginning to like Lindsay Lohan. No, I'm not talking about her face, the way she dresses or the fact that she really enjoys exposing h... |
7 January 2008
06:07 GMT |
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I must admit that even if I heard of hundreds or maybe thousands of hack attacks, I've never saw such a powerful one that may affect everyone of us without even knowing. Security company SecureWorks today informed that a new variant of Zbot, an old and dangerous malware, is used by the hackers to compromise cons... |
13 December 2007
03:40 GMT |
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Finally "Go eat a PS3!" does not sound like an insult or an impossible task anymore thanks to the craftsmen at the Eurochocolate Festival in Perugia, Italy. They've created a full scale set of PS3 consoles made out of chocolate plus giant SIXAXIS controllers. We were surprised to find out that a couple of choco... |
16 October 2007
11:08 GMT |
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If there's a company which thinks it can compete with the Internet giants Google and Yahoo and which makes smart moves to challenge them, that's AOL. The famous web portal started the European expansion and it proudly released the Italian flavor of the service, offering the same functions as to the American... |
14 September 2007
04:04 GMT |
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The Italian authorities managed to stop a major phishing attempt that affected the postal service owned by the Government that works with residents' financial information. Just like any other phishing attempts, the attackers were trying to lure users to a fake website of Poste Italliene in order to require them ... |
17 July 2007
04:57 GMT |
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The Italian authorities managed to arrest no less than 35 persons due to Operation Crack, a special campaign started by the police in order to stop a criminal gang from distributing pirated software. According to IFPI, the shocking element of the investigation was revealed after the authorities arrested all the membe... |
5 July 2007
05:44 GMT |
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Why don't we leave aside "cold" and shallow titles lacking a great storyline and characters, and which focus mainly on violence and primary instincts, and talk about a more retro-action kind of game, set in the dampness-filled canals of Renaissance Italy's famed Venice. This PC title launched by PopCap Game... |
22 June 2007
10:10 GMT |
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Apple is currently one of the world's giants because it is known in the entire world for numerous products developed by the company such as Macs, iPods, iTunes and for the upcoming iPhone. At this time, more and more users are attracted to buy a Mac and let the old fashioned Windows PC away because the Apple pro... |
21 March 2007
07:55 GMT |
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