Italian anti-mafia activists are alarmed by the presence of Facebook groups that are glorifying the behavior of jailed mafia bosses.

"Fan clubs" of jailed mafia bosses Bernardo Provenzano, arrested in 2006 after nearly 40 years on the run, and Toto Riina, arrested in 1993 after 24 years at large, have sprung up on the Italian pages of Facebook.

Central Europe loves Facebook.  Or parts of it do, anyway.  Although the social network didn’t really start releasing versions in different languages until March of this year, new reports put Facebook’s growth in two countries in the triple digits.

Google executives have been ordered by an Italian prosecutor to stand trial on charges related to a video of a child with Down syndrome being humiliated by other kids who then posted the video on Google Video Italia.

Old fans of "Everybody Loves Raymond" may remember a couple of episodes in which the Barone family visited Italy.  All of the usual squabbling stopped as the characters (and quite obviously, the cast) just enjoyed the experience.  Now, Google Street View will let its users share some of the same sights.

Seat Pagine Gialle (Seat PG) feels the impact of Google on its advertising business, suffering on the Italian stock market as a result.

In an effort to grow its global audience AOL has launched a dedicated portal for Italy, AOL.it.

Unfortunately, this spoofing has nothing to do with commedia dell’arte; in Italy, attackers are sending spam messages forged to appear to come from lawyers and directing recipients to download malware. There’s no reason to think it couldn’t happen here or elsewhere.

Now this is interesting. Italian prosecutors are investigating two Google Italy employees as part of an inquiry into how a violent video appeared on Google Video

A video of an autistic 17-year-old boy being bullied in a Turin classroom made it onto Google Video, and Italian authorities are furious that the content was not caught by Google staffers.

A deal between major World Cup sponsor Yahoo and mobile application developer Everypoint will provide real-time information about the competition this summer.

Google has added high-resolution imagery of Turin, Italy, to Google Earth and Google Local, so you can see lots of interesting terrain around the Olympic Games.

Last Friday evening, MSN took their search toolbar to the International community by releasing an updated version, which increases the amount of language support given to foreign countries.

Italy should stop using the euro and go back to having its own currency says Italy’s welfare minister Roberto Maroni. European Union leaders find this idea “absurd”.

Roberto Maroni, Italy’s welfare minister, believes that his country would be better off if it went back to having its own currency. The idea has been called absurd by leaders of the European Union.

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