iPhone Websites in Italy
Well, Italians now have iPhones, but how has the Italian web reacted to the every growing thirst for information about Apple’s latest cult product?
Yes, this week Blog from Italy is focusing on Italy’s summer hit - the Apple iPhone.
In this post, I’ll show you which iPhone websites turn up on the first page of search results when someone does a search for ‘iphone‘ on Google.it - Google Italy. The results are potentially a little worrying, as you will find out. Read more
Italian iPhone Fever
The inimitable Apple iPhone was officially launched in Italy by TIM (Telecom Italian Mobile) and Vodafone yesterday.
The Milanese, at least, decided that this object was the apple of their eyes, and formed long queues outside mobile phone shops in a attempt to obtain what has become the latest technological must-have fashion accessory.
All this enthusiasm comes despite high priced mobile phone service plans, and the sluggish Italian economy. To be fair though, Milan’s own economy is far from sluggish, which means the well heeled Milanese can afford to splash out and make the iPhone ‘MyPhone’, so to speak.
Was I in the queues? No. I’m probably going to end up with a Blackberry, sooner or later, at least once I’ve paid off the dear old Italian tax man.
Silvio Must Be Fuming!
Mr B, Italy’s charismatic prime minister is probably not a very happy chappy. A recent article in Italian news magazine L’Espresso concerned, amongst other things, telephone conversations which took place between Italy’s current prime minister and a RAI TV executive last year.
Apparently, these conversations involve, it is alleged, Berlusconi, who wanted to help out some of his TV friends, and who, it is claimed, offered to support the business interests of one Agostino Saccà. Saccà, who is currently under suspension, is/was RAI’s head of fiction.
In another tapped conversation with one Giancarlo Innocenzi, a member of Italy’s Communications Regulatory Authority (Agcom), was overhead chatting with Berlusco about valuable contracts for certain Mediaset producers. As the Italian newspapers are pointing out, this would appear to indicate that Mr B has not, as he has himself claimed, taken a back seat with regard to the management of his very own Mediset TV empire.
Wait for fresh allegations of confilicts of linterest to be levelled at Italy’s current head of parliament.
Around 9,000 (yes, nine thousand) calls have been deposited with the authorities in Naples who are investigating further allegations of corruption against good old Silvio.
Despite Berlusco’s attempts to whizz through anti-telephone tapping legislation, he does not appear to have moved fast enough to have blocked the recent publication of transcripts. Berlusconi’s lawyer is also unhappy and making noises to the effect that this current episode clearly justifies the anti-telephone tapping legislation proposals.
One thing, OK, two things, are clear, either Berlusconi never bought one of these, or, he did, but they don’t work!
Good News!
I nearly forgot about this.
The other day, an Italian reader wrote to the E-Polis free newspaper to, in a way, stand up for immigrants in Italy.
This reader had lost his mobile phone, but then, luckily, the police called him to say that it had been handed in to them. When this person asked who had brought the phone to the police, he was told that it was someone of Indian origin.
Impressed by the honesty the person who found his phone, the owner of the phone decided to write in to the newspaper and tell them about it. The writer also highlighted the fact that it was one of Italy’s currently much maligned immigrants who did the right thing, as if to say ‘Don’t tar everyone with the same brush’.
It’s good to read little stories like this, and to know that reasonable balanced people exist.
Just recalling this story has cheered me up a little.
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