Especially For Egypt, Twitter access from Google Without Internet Connection

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. finally launched a special service that allows people in Egypt to send Twitter messages (tweets) them with contact telephone numbers and voice message broadcasting. Until now access the Internet continues to cut in the country, amid anti-government protests.

"Like many people, we have been struggling to broadcast news in Egypt and think about what we can do to help people on the ground,"read a message sent on the company's official blog on Monday (31 / 1).

Services that, according to Google, developed by engineers from Twitter, enabling people to a single telephone number and voice message broadcasting.

Voice messages are automatically translated into a message sent on Twitter by using the identifier # egypt, Google said.

Google said in a posting on his blog, entitled "Some weekend work That will of (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be Heard", that there is no need Internet connection to utilize these services.

Google lists three special phone numbers for those who wish to contact to take advantage of that service. Internet social networking services like Twitter and Facebook has become an important communication tool for protesters in Egypt.

After Tunisia and Egypt, Yemen's Turn Now that "rocked"

SANAA - After Tunisia and Egypt, the anger against the regime now also spread to Yemen. About 15 thousand protesters took to the streets in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, demanding that President Ali Abdullah Saleh down from office. "People want a change of regime and the president down," said one activist.

They use a uniform pink headband, a symbol of freedom. Most of the demonstrators were students, opposition party members and supporters, as well as workers and unemployment. They are divided in four locations and led an opposition party.

The issue was widely raised in the protest that is the problem of poverty and high unemployment.

"We demand that the president and his government to improve living conditions, combating corruption, and political reform. We want a brighter future for our children," said the Islamist Islah Party activist.

"We do not need to be violent, we do not allow anything to happen, which is detrimental to residents and insulting democracy," said the Yemeni Interior Minister, Rashad al-Masri Mutaher, told reporters.