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Google is reportedly blocking use of it's Chrome browser (among other applications like Google Talk and Gmail Notifier)  in some countries with which the United States has economic sanctions and export controls with. "We are unable to permit the download of Google Chrome in Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan," says a Google Spokesperson.

The Summer Games often seem like a geography lesson.  People will ask each other "where's that?" during the opening ceremony, or maybe say "I forgot about them" following an upset.  So now's as good a time as any for Google AdSense to introduce a Western Union payment option in some smallish countries.

Google's interface for the iPhone has been floating around America for a while, but in what is sure to be a welcome development, the search giant is now making it available in over 30 different markets and 15 new languages.  A special iPhone-appropriate edition of Google News is spreading as well.

We're still waiting to hear what caused damage to several underwater Internet cables; it's likely to be either especially interesting (in an apocalyptic, WWIII sense) or completely mundane (think rusty old anchors).  But either way, affected nations are getting their access back.

The number of countries in the world depends, as you might expect, on your definition of “country.”  But for the purposes of this article, we’ll peg that number at 192, and point out that the latest expansion to Google Maps saw nearly 30 percent of them get encompassed.

Red Herring's Falguni Bhuta predicts "More (Open Source) momentum in developing countries":

The "One Laptop Per Child" project hopes to distribute $100 laptops to children in third world countries, and they are incrediby close to achieving that goal.

The United States and India signed an aviation agreement in which both countries can operate as many flights between each other as they like.