Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has announced a new service that allows people in Egypt to stay-in-touch while the Internet has been blacked out there. Now anyone can send a tweet in Egypt by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers: +16504194196, +390662207294, or +97316199855. The service will tweet the message using the #egypt hashtag. [Speak2Tweet Twitter Account via Google Blog]

Facebook has conquered the world of social networking, photo sharing, instant messaging, video sharing, and even Hollywood through The Social Network movie. What’s next? They want to take over comments on blogs and other online publications. Facebook would be the comment management system and the engine that drives blog comments.

Instant messaging is the most sophisticated way to communicate over the Internet. Almost every social network has their own chatting programs built in and millions of people still stay in touch through AOL Instant Messenger since it came out in the 1990s. There are many different programs out there with instant messaging capabilities and sometimes it is difficult to choose one. Below is a list of 60+ instant messenger programs and software available for download.

T-Mobile will start selling the Dell Streak 7 for $199.99 with a 2-year contract and $50 mail-in rebate on February 2nd. The 7-inch Android 2.2 tablet is powered by the NVIDIA Tegra 2. Without a contract, the tablet goes for $450. [Engadget]

KIT digital is a cloud-based video asset management company that has acquired three social networking companies for $77.2 million – KickApps (social networking), Kewego (web video project management), and Kyte (mobile video platform). KickApps CEO Alex Blum will be the Global COO of KIT digital and KickApps CFO David Lapter will be the SVP of Finance and Administration at KIT. KIT digital chairman and CEO Kaleil Isaza Tuzman wrote:

President Barack Obama said in the State of the Union address last week that the U.S. needs to out-educate and out-innovate our competition to win the future. One of the biggest ways by doing so is by encouraging entrepreneurship. Today the President announced Startup America, a campaign to accelerate entrepreneurship and it will be headed by Steve Case. Carl Schramm, the President and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation, will be a founding board member of Startup America.

As Wikipedia’s celebrates its 10 years of existence, they have hit 3.5 million English articles in over 250 languages. Thousands of people are contributing the Wikipedia’s articles, but less than 15% of that number are women. A majority of the contributors are in their mid-20s.

The Sandy Bridge processors manufactured by Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has some flaws. Intel has halted their chipset shipments until a bug free version starts shipping out next month. “In some cases, the Serial-ATA (SATA) ports within the chipsets may degrade over time, potentially impacting the performance or functionality of SATA-linked devices such as hard disk drives and DVD-drives,” said Intel in a statement.