SEW reports that MSN Reporter has gone live in Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway and states that it attracts a lot of visitors with some articles receiving up to 10,000 votes…

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

With the Internet growing so rapidly do you ever wonder if you are missing a new trend or technology that could boost your bottom line?

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.

Jeff Gillis just posted the feedback request in the Analytics Blog.

Ethan Zuckerman asks “what do India, Pakistan, China, and Ethiopia have in common?”

Microsoft has said it will carry out 18 technology projects in Portugal as a way of boosting the country’s lagging economy.

In my previous article, I raised the issue that proper keyword research must take into account countries. The reason for that was that the demand for keywords can vary between countries. I gave examples of that fact using the Overture keyword tool.

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

My online friend Uri Levanon called me today from Israel. He called to my SkypeIn number.

That’s in itself isn’t remarkable. What is, perhaps, is that he called that number – which is a normal landline number in London – from his internet phone service. Not Skype this time. Uri was calling from The VoipBuster. For free.

HSBC Holdings’ annual profit went up 35%, thanks to an improved Hong Kong economy, and U.S. operations.

Agricultural commodity prices threatens the food security of hundreds of millions of people in some of the world’s poorest countries.

Last April, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, and the US-based Global Health Council held a 3-days workshop about “Pricing and Financing of Essential Drugs” in poor countries. Not surprisingly, the conclusion was:

Eleven new countries – territories now have their own version of Google. Google now has over 100 country or region specific Google’s.

Sophos released today the results of its research on the top twelve spam producing countries.