Jesmyn Ward's 'Salvage' wins National Book Award (AP)

NEW YORK ? Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the Bones," a bleak but determined novel about a community devastated by Hurricane Katrina, has won the National Book Award for fiction.

Ward's acceptance, the culmination of a night of emotional speeches and tributes to those who had been silenced, noted that the death of her younger brother had inspired her to become a writer. She realized that life was a "feeble, unpredictable thing," but that books were a testament of strength before a punishing world.

"I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South," said Ward, whose brother was hit by a drunk driver the year she graduated from college. Earlier in the week, she told The Associated Press that writing was a way to "ease the looming fact of death."

Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve," a dramatic account of the Renaissance era rediscovery of the Latin poet Lucretius, won for nonfiction Wednesday night. The poetry prize went to Nikki Finney's "Head Off & Split," an impassioned summation of African-American history, while Thanhhai Lai's "Inside Out & Back Again," the story of a Vietnamese family in Alabama, won for young people's literature.

Winners each receive $10,000.

Actor-author John Lithgow hosted the ceremony, declaring himself humbled before the "great thoughts," "quicksilver wit" and "eloquent locution" among the writers, editors, publishers and others gathered. After Finney's remarks, a mini-recapulation of the injustices and triumphs set to verse in her book, he expressed pity for the winners who had to follow. Greenblatt, tearful in victory, noted the miracle of words, how an ancient poet such as Lucretius could matter so greatly centuries later.

"My book is about the power of books to cross boundaries, to speak to you impossibly across space and time and distance, to have someone long dead in the room with you, speaking in your ear," said Greenblatt, a Harvard professor also known for his Shakespeare biography "Will in the World."

Honorary prizes were given to Florida-based bookseller Mitch Kaplan, who looked back warmly on a 30-year career/calling in a business he found more fulfilling than law school, and poet John Ashbery, who called writing a "pleasure I can almost taste." In a self-deprecating speech, he acknowledged that even intelligent people find what he writes "makes no sense" and "near root canal" as an experience to read.

"I never meant for it to be (difficult)," he said. "I wanted the difficulty to reflect the difficulty of reading, any kind of reading, which is both a pleasant and painful experience since we are temporarily giving ourselves over to something that may change us."

The 62nd annual National Book Awards were held in the gilded, columned confines of Cipriani Wall Street, not far from the economic protests of the past two months.

"I thought I should point out, since nobody else has," said poet Ann Lauterbach, who introduced Ashbery, "that we are occupying Wall Street."

The biggest controversy happened weeks ago, after the nominees were first announced. The list for young people's literature initially included "Shine," by the popular author Lauren Myracle. But the National Book Foundation, which sponsors the awards, quickly acknowledged that "Shine" had been inadvertently chosen over Franny Billingsley's "Chime." Nominees are read over the phone by the judging committee to the foundation and one title was mistaken for the other. In an embarrassing see-saw of decisions, Myracle was removed, reinstated, then pushed into withdrawing.

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3D Printing Startup Shapeways Raises $5.1 Million, Plans NYC Production Facility

shapewayslogoOf all the cool things going on in technology, one of my favorites is 3D printing. It's got such a futuristic quality to it: input a digital schematic, and you get a physical product custom cut to your exact specifications. You can print bike parts if you want to. How amazing is that? Sorry, still wrapping my head around it. In any case, I'm not the only one who's excited: Shapeways ??a company looking to bring 3D printing to the masses ??just raised an additional $5.1 million from existing investors Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures, and it's also gotten a loan commitment of $1.2 million from NYC Investment Fund. The company previously raised $5 million last fall. And there's also some great news for Shapeways customers: the firm is planning to launch printing facilities in New York City in 2012. Historically goods ordered (and then printed) through Shapeways have been manufactured either through contracted third-parties, or through the company's own facility in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

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Turn Stars and Galaxies into Music with an iPhone App and More from TreeHugger [EcoModo]

This week on TreeHugger, gorgeous OLED light looks like a mobile, computer-planter hybrid makes for an interesting office space, cycle while at your desk with the FitDesk and more. More »


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U.S. military better prepared for cyber warfare: General (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? The U.S. military now has a legal framework to cover offensive operations in cyberspace, the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command said Wednesday, less than a month after terming this a work in progress.

"I do not believe that we need new explicit authorities to conduct offensive operations of any kind," Air Force General Robert Kehler said in the latest sign of quickening U.S. military preparations for possible cyber warfare.

But he said the military was still working its way through cyber warfare rules of engagement that lie beyond "area of hostilities," or battle zones, for which they have been approved.

The Strategic Command is responsible for U.S. operations in space and cyberspace. The U.S. Cyber Command, a sub-command, began operating in May 2010 as military doctrine, since legal authorities and rules of engagement were still being worked out for what the military calls the newest potential battle "domain."

The Defense Department, in a report made public Tuesday, ratcheted up its warnings, saying the United States reserves the right to retaliate with military force against a cyber attack and is boosting its ability to pinpoint network intruders.

"When warranted, we will respond to hostile attacks in cyberspace as we would to any other threat to our country," the Pentagon said in a report mandated by Congress.

"We reserve the right to use all necessary means - diplomatic, informational, military and economic - to defend our nation, our allies, our partners and our interests."

PRESIDENT MUST ORDER CYBER OFFENSIVE

Kehler, in Wednesday's teleconference, equated offensive action in cyberspace with operations on the ground, air, sea and space in that any offensive action would be carried out under orders of the president as commander-in-chief.

As recently as October 18, Kehler had told reporters that the military was still looking at "what kinds of options would we want to be able to offer" policymakers for cyber warfare.

Deliberations on military doctrine and legal framework are "ongoing," Kehler said at the time. "I would say it's not completed."

On Wednesday, he said the military was learning daily from its operations in cyberspace.

"I think we all wish we were going faster, but we have made progress, we have a number of rules of engagement in place," he said from Omaha, Nebraska, where Strategic Command was hosting a cyber and space conference.

The Pentagon's advanced research arm said earlier this month that it is stepping up efforts to build a cyber arsenal for "more and better options" to meet computer-driven threats to a growing range of industrial and other systems that are vulnerable to cyber penetration.

The Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, a U.S. intelligence arm, said in a report to Congress last month that China and Russia are using cyber espionage to steal U.S. trade and technology secrets and that they will remain "aggressive" in these efforts.

It defined cyberspace as including the Internet, telecommunications networks, computer systems and embedded processors and controllers in "critical industries."

The Pentagon, in the report to Congress made public Tuesday, said it was seeking to deter aggression in cyberspace by building stronger defenses and by finding ways to make attackers pay a price.

"Should the 'deny objectives' element of deterrence not prove adequate," the report said, "DoD (Department of Defense) maintains, and is further developing, the ability to respond militarily in cyberspace and in other domains."

(Editing by Bob Burgdorfer)

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Branson's Virgin to buy bailed-out Northern Rock (AP)

LONDON ? The British government is selling mortgage lender Northern Rock, the country's first victim of the credit crisis, to Richard Branson's Virgin Money.

Virgin Money, which is part of the wider Virgin Group, is paying 747 million pounds ($1.2 billion) on closing but there are provisions for the government to receive up to 1 billion pounds in total, the Treasury said Thursday. Virgin Money has promised that it will not lay off any more employees and will maintain the full branch network for at least three years.

"It was clear to us that this was the best deal for the British taxpayer, we were getting more money back than any other deal on the table," said Treasury chief George Osborne.

He said the sale would also increase competition in the British banking sector, which is dominated by four large banks.

The deal drew some criticism, however, because the sale price was less than the 1.4 billion pounds that taxpayers had invested in the bank.

"I'm very concerned about whether we are getting really good value for the taxpayer," said Mark Field, a lawmaker in the Conservative Party, which is Osborne's party too.

Ed Miliband, the leader of the opposition Labour Party, also said there will be "serious questions asked about the deal done to sell Northern Rock today, and in particular about the losses to the taxpayer."

Northern Rock's funding crisis in late 2007 gave Britain shocking images of desperate depositors lining up to withdraw their money from the company. The previous government nationalized the bank in February 2008 in the face of opposition from Osborne, and guaranteed the security of savings deposits.

The sale includes 75 branches and 2,100 staff, 1 million customers, retail deposits of 16 billion pounds and a mortgage book of 14 billion pounds.

Virgin Money was founded in 1995 and has around three million customers. The purchase of Northern Rock is funded by a consortium led by Virgin Group and W.L. Ross & Co., a turnaround specialist.

"Banking in the U.K. needs some fresh ideas and an injection of new competition," Branson said. "I'm delighted we will get the chance to work with the loyal staff of Northern Rock to create a new force in the market."

Before the bank was nationalized, Virgin Money had made an offer in 2008 to take over Northern Rock but it was rejected by the then government as too risky and too expensive.

The sale includes provisions for an addition 50 million pounds cash to be paid to the government six months after completion, and up to 230 million pounds if there is a profitable flotation or sale within five years.

The government last year split Northern Rock into two businesses: Northern Rock PLC, which Virgin Money is buying, and Northern Rock (Asset Management) PLC which holds a portfolio of the riskiest loans.

The government plans to wind down the asset management unit over time to repay 50 billion pounds advanced by the Treasury.

Northern Rock proved to be just a small part of the sums paid out by government to save the banking sector from collapse. Taxpayers still hold 83 percent of Royal Bank of Scotland and about 40 percent of Lloyds Banking Group.

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Betty Wright and the Roots revive '70s soul (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? If you love the classic era of baby-making music -- which could mean that you're just a year or two past the point of having to worry about your music tastes resulting in actual babies -- you'll love "Betty Wright: The Movie," the new album by the 57-year-old soul singer and her storied backup band, the Roots.

Wright even addresses that particular legacy in a spoken-word introduction to "Tonight Again," the sexiest of her new songs (and one obviously intended as a sequel to her 1975 single, "Tonight is the Night").

"OK, grown folks' music bein' played right now," she announces. "Put children to bed. This song goes out to all of you that blame every child you ever had on me! I know, because I meet all these little kids named Betty Wright after 'Tonight is the Night.'"

The Roots are just a little too old to claim their births have any connection to that oldie, although drummer Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson was born the same year that Wright had her first and only top 10 hit, "Clean Up Woman," in 1971.

Now, he's co-producing her new album as well as enlisting the Roots in a collaborative enough fashion that they're co-billed with her on the project.

You'd think the Roots would be busy enough with their Jimmy Fallon gig, where the Philly hip-hop crew prove remarkably chameleonic on a nightly basis.

But Questlove can't help moonlighting on his moonlighting, so he's also got a great side career going in soul-music reclamation. Three years ago, he proved just what a sharp time traveler he is when he worked on Al Green's much-loved comeback, "Lay It Down."

With Green, Questlove was slavish to a tee to the old signature sound. He's almost as deferential to the urban styles of the 1970s on "Betty Wright: The Movie."

But since Wright isn't quite so identified with a specific sonic signature as Reverend Al, Questlove isn't afraid to add a few subtle modern touches here and there -- or not-so-subtle ones, if we're talking about the guest raps by Lil Wayne and Snoop Dogg.

Despite the presence of Weezy, this is an album that's going to be accused, if anything, of being too much in throw to the throwback aspects of wah-wah guitar, proto-disco strings, and other specific touchstones of the era.

If so, Wright and Questlove certainly wouldn't be convicted by a jury of their "they don't make 'em like that anymore" peers.

In fighting off a nostalgia charge, it helps that Wright is returning to the mid-'70s as if she were a 57-year-old woman in 1974, with themes that reflect whatever wisening she's been through since then.

In "Real Woman," where she's advising men to "stop playing with girls," it almost sounds like she's advocating cougar-dom -- except for the parts where it's explicitly clear that she's telling her nephews to grow up in their dating-and-mating choices, not jealous of the action younger gals are getting.

The presence of Snoop as a guest star on "Real Woman" might seem counterintuitive, with the lyrics arguing for maturity and Snoop practically a poster child for arrested development.

But the rapper adds some nice touches and doesn't dominate the track -- as could be said of Lil Wayne's minimalist contributions to "Grapes on a Vine." (Favors are being traded, since the oft-sampled Wright appeared on a "Tha Carter III" number of Wayne's a few years back).

A more perfectly suited guest is found in Joss Stone, whose first two albums were co-produced by Wright. She shows up to duet on the disco ballad "Whisper in the Wind," and it's a measure of just how successful Wright's mentoring was that picking their two voices apart isn't always an instantaneous matter.

In the opening "Old Songs," Wright tries to bridge the generation gap by admonishing, "I must admit, your beats got fatter/But add subject matter on subjects that matter."

She makes good on that herself with "Hollywould," a lament about a single mother who spends her nights in the clubs, and "Go!" a live track that adds musical rawness to the tender subject matter of domestic abuse.

But for the most part, even with its added layers of age-appropriate consciousness and sass, "Betty Wright: The Movie" is an album that is going to go down very, very well in the boudoirs of classic R&B fans who don't find current urban music setting quite the right mood.

And if the presence and co-billing of the Roots helps nudge her demographics down a bit, "Betty" could be re-popularized as a baby name after all.

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Rutgers-Camden researcher examines how the brain perceives shades of gray

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CAMDEN How the brain perceives color is one of its more impressive tricks. It is able to keep a stable perception of an object's color as lighting conditions change.

Sarah Allred, an assistant professor of psychology at RutgersCamden, has teamed up with psychologists from the University of Pennsylvania on groundbreaking research that provides new insight into how this works.

Allred conducted the research with Alan L. Gilchrist, a professor of psychology at RutgersNewark, and professor David H. Brainard and post-doctoral fellow Ana Radonjic, both of the University of Pennsylvania. Their research will be published in the journal Current Biology.

"Although we recognize easily the colors of objects in many different environments, this is a difficult problem for the brain," Allred says. "For example, consider just the gray scale that goes from black to white. A white piece of paper in bright sunlight reflects thousands of times more light to the eye than a white piece of paper indoors, but both pieces of paper look white. How does the brain do this?"

The process of seeing an object begins when light reflected off that object hits the light-sensitive structures in the eye. The perception of an object's lightness (in terms of color shade) depends on the object's reflectance. Objects that appear lighter reflect a larger percentage of light than those that appear darker.

Allred says the brain processes perceptual differences between black and white objects even when illumination of the object changes. If the brain did not do this, it would fail to distinguish color shade in different light.

In general, white objects reflect about 90 percent of the light that hits them, and black objects reflect about three percent, a ratio of 30-to-1, she explains.

"However, if you look at the intensities of light that enter the eye from a typical scene, like a field of lilies, that ratio is much higher, usually somewhere between 10,000-to-1 and a million-to-1," Allred says.

This happens because in addition to having objects with different reflectance, real "scenes" also have different levels of illumination. One example might be a shadowed area under a tree. Allred and her research colleagues wanted to determine how the brain maps a large range of light intensity onto a much smaller reflectance range.

One long-time hypothesis is that the brain segments scenes into different regions of illumination and then uses ratio coding to decide what looks white.

To test if this hypothesis was true, the researchers conducted an experiment where participants viewed images that had a very large range of light intensities. Participants were asked to look at a 5x5 checkerboard composed of grayscale squares with random intensities spanning the 10,000-to-1 range. They were asked to report what shades of gray a target square looked like by selecting a match from a standardized gray scale.

If the visual system relied only on ratios to determine surface lightness, then the ratio of checkerboard intensities the participants reported should have had the same ratio as that of the black and white samples on the reflectance scale, about 100-to-1.

Instead, the researchers found that this ratio could be as much as 50 times higher, more than 5,000-to-1.

"This research is important because we have falsified the ratio hypothesis, which is currently the most widely invoked explanation of how we perceive lightness," Allred says. "We also were able to reject several similar models of lightness. We were able to do this because we measured lightness in such high-range and relatively complex images."

She continues, "In addition, even though we used behavioral rather than physiological measures, our results provide insight into the neural mechanisms that must underlie the behavioral results."

A Philadelphia resident, Allred received her undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University and her graduate degree from the University of Washington. She is also conducting research on color memory and perception through a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

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856-225-6759
Rutgers University

CAMDEN How the brain perceives color is one of its more impressive tricks. It is able to keep a stable perception of an object's color as lighting conditions change.

Sarah Allred, an assistant professor of psychology at RutgersCamden, has teamed up with psychologists from the University of Pennsylvania on groundbreaking research that provides new insight into how this works.

Allred conducted the research with Alan L. Gilchrist, a professor of psychology at RutgersNewark, and professor David H. Brainard and post-doctoral fellow Ana Radonjic, both of the University of Pennsylvania. Their research will be published in the journal Current Biology.

"Although we recognize easily the colors of objects in many different environments, this is a difficult problem for the brain," Allred says. "For example, consider just the gray scale that goes from black to white. A white piece of paper in bright sunlight reflects thousands of times more light to the eye than a white piece of paper indoors, but both pieces of paper look white. How does the brain do this?"

The process of seeing an object begins when light reflected off that object hits the light-sensitive structures in the eye. The perception of an object's lightness (in terms of color shade) depends on the object's reflectance. Objects that appear lighter reflect a larger percentage of light than those that appear darker.

Allred says the brain processes perceptual differences between black and white objects even when illumination of the object changes. If the brain did not do this, it would fail to distinguish color shade in different light.

In general, white objects reflect about 90 percent of the light that hits them, and black objects reflect about three percent, a ratio of 30-to-1, she explains.

"However, if you look at the intensities of light that enter the eye from a typical scene, like a field of lilies, that ratio is much higher, usually somewhere between 10,000-to-1 and a million-to-1," Allred says.

This happens because in addition to having objects with different reflectance, real "scenes" also have different levels of illumination. One example might be a shadowed area under a tree. Allred and her research colleagues wanted to determine how the brain maps a large range of light intensity onto a much smaller reflectance range.

One long-time hypothesis is that the brain segments scenes into different regions of illumination and then uses ratio coding to decide what looks white.

To test if this hypothesis was true, the researchers conducted an experiment where participants viewed images that had a very large range of light intensities. Participants were asked to look at a 5x5 checkerboard composed of grayscale squares with random intensities spanning the 10,000-to-1 range. They were asked to report what shades of gray a target square looked like by selecting a match from a standardized gray scale.

If the visual system relied only on ratios to determine surface lightness, then the ratio of checkerboard intensities the participants reported should have had the same ratio as that of the black and white samples on the reflectance scale, about 100-to-1.

Instead, the researchers found that this ratio could be as much as 50 times higher, more than 5,000-to-1.

"This research is important because we have falsified the ratio hypothesis, which is currently the most widely invoked explanation of how we perceive lightness," Allred says. "We also were able to reject several similar models of lightness. We were able to do this because we measured lightness in such high-range and relatively complex images."

She continues, "In addition, even though we used behavioral rather than physiological measures, our results provide insight into the neural mechanisms that must underlie the behavioral results."

A Philadelphia resident, Allred received her undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University and her graduate degree from the University of Washington. She is also conducting research on color memory and perception through a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

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Norway gunman Breivik makes first public appearance since twin terror attacks

Today's court appearance by Anders Behring Breivik, the Norway gunman charged in a July bombing and shooting spree that killed 77 people, was the first chance for press and victims' relatives to hear him speak.

Several hundred people packed Oslo District Court to hear Anders Behring Breivik, the?Norwegian gunman charged in twin terror attacks on July 22, speak before press and victims for the first time since the attacks, which killed 77 people.

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The country is still haunted by the national tragedy that shocked the normally quiet Nordic nation, which was hoping that today's public hearing would give some insight into what kind of man could commit such violence.

The 32-year-old Breivik appeared composed, dressed in a dark suit with light blue tie, for his open court custody hearing. He sat face to face with about 80 members of the press and 50 survivors, victims' relatives, and victims rights? attorneys.

Breivik stared somberly toward the prosecution?for most of the 25-minute hearing. He pleaded not guilty to the terror charges but only after being cut off by justice Torkjel Nesheim as he launched into one of several diatribes during the court proceedings.

?I am a military commander in the Norwegian military resistance movement? and a Knight Templar,? Breivik replied, when asked his plea. ?[The court has] a mandate from those that support multiculturalism.?

The judge granted the prosecution?s request to extend his custody by 12 weeks, but relaxed the current ban on letters and visits, which will now be allowed but monitored, for the next eight weeks. He extended the ban on access to media by four more weeks.

Breivik has been in custody for 16 weeks, essentially in solitary confinement. He is awaiting trial, expected in April, for bombing a government building and carrying out a mass shooting spree on a political youth camp being held on the island of Ut?ya.

The two attacks are Norway?s worst national tragedy since World War II.

Herman Heggertveit, a ?relieved? 18-year old Labor Party youth member who survived the Ut?ya attack, says it was ?therapy? for him to see Breivik in court. He says he was not surprised when, at the end of the heating, Breivik asked permission to directly address the victims present, a request that was quickly rejected by the judge.

?He is arrogant, self-assured, and without any form for apologies and lives in his own bubble,? says Heggertveit.

Breivik?s public appearance was the first in this high-profile case; hearings have so far been closed to the press. Breivik was originally expected to appear via video link from Ila prison until his attorney, Geir Lippestad, last Friday persuaded the Norwegian Supreme Court to suspend the original decision to make him appear via video.

Mr. Lippestad argued that it was important for his client to show up at his own hearing to ensure ?court justice? and in light of his long isolation period. The decision came as a shock to victims? families.?

?There is a broad consensus that we do not want Breivik to have the possibility to profile himself and his ideas,? said Arne Okkenhaug, on behalf of the victims? families support group that gathered over the weekend, in a press statement. Mr. Okkenhaug is?one of the fathers of the 69 killed at Ut?ya Island.

?We fear the further increased attention this will give him?. The open court hearing can give him a speaker platform for spreading his viewpoints which we will experience as an extra burden.??

Breivik?s case is still awaiting the results from an evaluation by court-appointed psychologists as to whether he is fit to stand trial. Their decision has been postponed to Nov. 30.

If found guilty, he faces a maximum sentence of 21 years. However, he could sit in prison for the rest of his life if, as expected, he is still deemed a danger to society at the end of his current sentence and his sentence is repeatedly rolled over. There is no death penalty or life sentence in the Norwegian justice system. He could be the first in Norwegian history to have successive rollovers of his sentence.

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Cain accuser's ex-boyfriend corroborates story (AP)

SHREVEPORT, La. ? A Louisiana pediatrician says he and his ex-girlfriend spent time with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain more than a decade ago.

The account Monday by Victor Jay Zuckerman is a direct contradiction to Cain's assertions that had never met accuser Sharon Bialek or had never heard her name until recently.

Bialek told reporters last week that Cain made unwanted sexual advances while he was CEO of the National Restaurant Association in Washington, D.C.

At least three other women have alleged that Cain engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior. Cain has denied the accusations.

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Android 4.0 code released as OS takeover continues (Appolicious)

As promised, Google has released Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to the open source community. And as a bonus, the code encompasses the complete source code history tree, which includes Honeycomb?s line up as well. To be more specific, this is the source code for version 4.0.1 of Android, which is the version to ship on the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Nexus. This is the first time both ICS and Honeycomb have been opened to developers, and the move reiterates Chairman Eric Schmidt?s statements during his tour of Asia this month that Android would remain an open, free platform.

Android only continues to enlarge its footprint, making its way to more than half of all smartphones sold in the third quarter of 2011. According to a recent Gartner report, Google Android accounted for 52.5 percent of smartphone sales, more than doubling its share from last year. The success can partially be attributed to Samsung as well, which had significant sales for its Android-powered devices in Q3. ?Android benefited from more mass-market offerings, a weaker competitive environment, and the lack of exciting new products on alternative operating systems,? Roberta Cozza, an analyst in Gartner?s European unit based in Egham, England, said in the report.

The ubiquity of Android

The environment is also ripe for Amazon?s Kindle Fire, which finally hits stores today. This dual-core Android tablet, priced under $200, is a highly anticipated consumer gadget that could, in some ways, rival the iPad. But it only comes with a couple thousand apps in the Amazon Appstore, leaving out the majority of the quarter-million apps found in the official Android Market. That doesn?t have to stop you, though. PC Magazine details how the Kindle Fire can install any app in the standard APK format, enabling you to load more than just the select apps Amazon?s pre-selected on your behalf.

But if it?s the non-Android Siri app you really desire, you may be able to get the popular iPhone app on your Android handset as well. Developer Applidium has reported that the security protocol enabling Siri to communicate with Apple servers and return information through speech recognition has been cracked. That means Android apps can be written using the actual Siri technology. While Apple could shut down any such Android app pretty quickly, the hack reveals the complex process behind Siri?s interactions, from its codex to its TCP connections. At the very least, we can all learn a little more about the AI platform that?s won the hearts of consumers and investors around the world.

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