Google In The Dock: Execs Face Defamation Charges In Italy
Author: Patrick Smith

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives will answer charges of criminal defamation in a Milan court on Tuesday, stemming from a three-minute Google Video of a boy being bullied for having Down Syndrome.

The four execs are chief legal officer David Drummond, privacy chief Peter Fleischer (pictured), former CFO George Reyes (now retired) and senior product marketing manager Arvind Desikan (via FT.com). Each could face up to three years in jail if found guilty.

As it has done many times before, Google argues in a statement that it isn’t a media company and is “neutral” about the content it displays: “Seeking to hold neutral platforms liable for content posted on them is a direct attack on a free, open internet. We will continue to vigorously defend our employees in this prosecution.â€� Last week Google’s country manager, Massimiliano Magrini, left Google to begin his own Italian start-up fund.

Lance Armstrong Welcomes Baby Boy
He’s one of the most accomplished athletes in the world and Lance Armstrong has welcomed his fourth child into the world. The Tour de France dominator and his girlfriend Anna Hansen said hello to Max, who weighed 7 lbs 5 oz and was 20 inches long, earlier this week.Following his 12th place finish in the Giro d’Italia grand tour in Rome, Italy on Sunday, Armstrong hopped on a plane and headed back to the States for the impending arrival. Filled with excitement, Lance tweeted, “Already at the a
Published: 2009-06-06 05:23:00

Chess Rhapsodies
Here's a little something from the lighter side of chess: A chess fan from Rome, Italy has put together some nice compilations of the many chess scenes from movies and...
Published: 2009-05-27 15:29:00

Heart Disease in Children - A New Gene Discovered
Heart disease is serious and affects children, as a percentage of born on 2500, is due to a severe cardiac malformation: The Noonan syndrome which leads, inexorably, to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, because very often death. The solution to this serious problem, which seriously attentive to the health of children, appears on the horizon and is represented by a gene isolated in Italy by Istituto Superiore di Sanità captaincy from Mark Tartaglia in collaboration with researchers from the Mount of Bruce Gelb Sinai School of Medicine in New York and published in the August issue of Nature Genetics.
Published: 2009-05-15 15:20:06

WSPRing across the Atlantic
Author: Eliot Phillips

Host of the Soldersmoke podcast, [Bill Meara], contributed this guest post.

WSPR is a new communications protocol written by radio amateur and Nobel Prize winner [Joe Taylor]. Like the very slow QRSS system described in a previous post, WSPR (Weak Signal Propagation Reporter) trades speed for bandwidth and allows for the reception of signals that are far below the level of radio noise. WSPR takes “low and slow” communications several important steps ahead, featuring strong error correction, high reliability, and (and this is really fun part) the automatic uploading (via the net) of reception reports — [Taylor]’s WSPR web page constantly gathers reports and produces near real-time Google maps of showing who is hearing who. The WSPR mode is very hack-able: [Bill Meara] is running a 20 milliwatt homebrew transmitter from Rome, Italy that features an audio amplifier from a defunct computer speaker pictured below. This contraption recently crossed the Atlantic and was picked up by the Princeton, New Jersey receiving station of WSPR’s esteemed creator, [Joe Taylor].

Published: 2009-05-07 17:29:27

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Cruise Ship Rome Tours
When your cruise ship arrives in Civitavecchia if you plan to visit Rome, you will soon learn that the trip is one hour away and you may not have much time to visit all the sights you desire before your ship departs. If you want to ensure that you can visit all the highlights of Rome, the best way is to plan your tour of Rome, with a guided tour guide that can provide you with a personal tour of the attractions. One thing to remember, in Italy a driver is a driver and a guide...
Published: 2009-03-20 13:57:51

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Italy Gay Bars
The big cities of Italy such as Rome are where you will find the most abundant Italy gay bars, though you will easily find them anywhere in the country. Here you will encounter a wealth of interesting experiences with the Italian gay community that is active and thriving.
Published: 2009-02-26 08:37:16

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