Stories by Philip Willan

Article | 18/04/2005 Vatican battles eavesdroppers
The security and privacy of papal elections has been of concern since cardinals were first locked up in conclave ("cum clave" is Latin for "with a key...
Article | 18/01/2005 Chip giant Intel squares off against PC flyweight
The two contestants are definitely not in the same weight category but their trademark dispute is due to be adjudicated by a civil court in Naples and...
Article | 25/07/2003 Italian Senate taps MIDI to update century-old stenography
The Italian Senate has updated the mechanical shorthand technology it has been using since the 19th century and integrated it with MIDI (Musical Instr...
Article | 22/05/2003 Italian terror group's PDA highlights encryption controversy
Italian police have seized at least two Psion PLC PDAs (personal digital assistants) from members of the Red Brigades terrorist organization but the m...
Article | 3/02/2003 Gates addresses Italian Senate amid protest
Bill Gates outlined his optimistic vision of the coming digital decade in a speech to the Italian Senate Friday as open source advocates in penguin su...
Article | 16/01/2002 Italian police track down hacker group
Italian police have identified six members of a hacker group charged with attacking thousands of Web sites in 62 countries, replacing official home pa...
Article | 15/01/2002 Italian carriers launch stolen mobile phone registry
Italy's four mobile phone companies have agreed to introduce a joint register of stolen phones in order to prevent thieves from reusing the handsets, ...
Article | 17/12/2001 Machine translation dents Italian govt image
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has promised to modernize his country's creaking bureaucracy and propel the nation to the forefront of techno...
Article | 11/12/2001 Windows XP arouses presidential ire
New software programs are always likely to encounter teething problems, but it's better if they don't happen to your most high profile customers.
Article | 20/11/2001 In a first, Vatican delivers papal text by Net
Pope John Paul II is preparing to publish an official document over Internet for the first time, underlining the Catholic Church's commitment to moder...
Article | 21/08/2001 Italy's business bible clamps down on erotic imitator
Until recently, some Internet navigators who thought they were heading for Italy's business bible, Il Sole 24 Ore, would get a rude shock when they la...
Article | 7/06/2001 Vatican to rule out online confessions
While businesses fight to keep commercially sensitive information from leaking across the Internet, the Catholic church is preparing to ban traffic in...
Article | 21/03/2001 Italy issues first electronic identity card
Interior Minister Enzo Bianco on Saturday issued Italy's first electronic identity card, making the Mediterranean nation the world's second country, a...
Article | 5/03/2001 Bishops order mobile phone masts down
Church towers should be reserved for communications between God and the faithful and cannot be used to host mobile-telephone masts, according to a rul...
Article | 12/02/2001 Love Bug serenades Italian Net customers
An Italian version of the Love Bug computer virus has affected a small number of European companies but unlike its predecessor appears to have only an...

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