The border dispute on the Thai-Cambodian border at Preah Vihear temple reignites, with 6 dead over the past two days. This is the same place which almost exactly a year ago was the focus of Google Earth's border depiction.

Using Google Earth to calculate an upper bound on the crowd numbers in Cairo's Tahrir Square. (Hint: looks like it can't fit more than 250,000 people)

Now you can specify spots on Google Earth for which you get an email update every time the area gets an imagery update.

US export restrictions have been eased on Iran. As long as you are not downloading on behalf of the Iranian government, Google Earth, Chrome and Picasa are now available to Iranian IP addresses.

Google Earth's John Hanke moves to a new job inside Google — creating an entrepreneurial lab for what sounds like the next generation of mobile augmented reality products.

'"We will wait to see what the Court says. We have always been respectful of what the court orders and we will be respectful of their decision", said Ortega in a public event to mark the beginning of his fifth and final year in office.'

"The ICJ on Tuesday started hearing three days' of arguments in Costa Rica's request for urgent provisional measures pending the judges' ultimate ruling in the territorial dispute, which can take years."

China CCTV ratchets up the paranoia in this report re domestic neogeographic activity, including using GPS devices. "Foreigners" do such things in order to later lob cruise missiles at China, obviously. It's in Chinese, but you'll get the gist. (Note the stealth appearance of Google Earth in flight simulator mode.)

More interesting than the title: There have now been 800 million Google Earth activations, according to Google's Michael Jones, as quoted in the Indian media.