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BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 out Now in Italy

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

The Pirate Bay Appeals Ban Decision

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

The Pirate Bay Gets Banned

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

Ericsson and 3 Can Provide 5.8 Mbps HSPA Upload Speeds in Italy

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

Samsung Omnia Out on July 22, Free Xbox 360 Console Included

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

MD-3 from MomoDesign Is Full of Mobile TV

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

Ducati Phone Made by Sony Ericsson, Coming Soon

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

Pisa Tower Safe for the Next Three Centuries

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

Google to Launch Street View in Europe

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

If You're Seeing Gooogle, You're Infected

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

More About Sex with Lohan

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

Hackers Launch Major Attack in Four Countries

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

Free New Eurochocolate PS3 Consoles Surface in Italy

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

Unlimited Storage Email Comes in Europe

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

Lasagna Aficionados Arrested in Italy Due to Phishing Attacks

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

Police Involved In Pirated Software Distribution

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

PopCap Launches the Dampness-Filled Canals of Venice onto the PC

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

Apple: Parlate Italiano?

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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