Tag: ITALY

Google's been busy with its pedal-powered Street View trike, going where no Street View car can reach, bringing us some of the most impressive virtual tours of significant landmarks across the globe. Now Google has made available Street View imagery of some of the most historic and impressive places in both Italy and France. Have you ever wanted to take a look round the Colosseum in Rome ...

Four Google executives are in court in Italy today facing charges related to a video that was posted on the Italian version of Google Video in 2006. This isn't the first time that Google has faced pressure because of videos that were illegally uploaded to Google Video or YouTube. But this time we're not talking about copyrighted music videos or movies. The video in question shows four kids ...

The head of Toshiba's Italian division says the company is thinking about giving customers the option of ordering Tecra, Satellite, Portege and Qosmio notebooks with Linux preinstalled. Luigi Cattaeneo says the move would allow the company to sell notebooks in 500 Euro range, which could help Toshiba compete with European market leaders HP and Acer. The news comes at a time when Dell is preparing ...

If profit isn't your motive, then swapping pirated music, movies and software via P2P isn't illegal. That's what a high court in Italy ruled last month, marking yet another blow for enforcement efforts by the recording, software and motion picture industry trade groups. According to the Associated Press, "The court's decision [...] overturns earlier convictions against two former Turin ...