Leaked: pictures of Android 2.3 running on the Nexus S

Pictures of the next major version of Android, version 2.3 (codenamed Gingerbread), running on the Samsung Nexus S, have leaked to XDA Developers thanks to an anonymous source. The photos are quite blurry and don't really reveal many new features in Android 2.3, but it's still a significant leak. It means that the Nexus S, the successor to the Nexus One, is coming, and it's coming soon.

As far as specifications of the "thin and curved" device go, XDA Developers speculates the following:

  • ArmV7 CPU Could be Dual Core
  • Open GL ES Supported
  • 512 or 328MB Ram (Not 100% known)
  • 1GB or 2GB Internal Memory (Not 100% known)
  • 800480 Screen Resolution
  • 4? Screen Size
  • SuperAmoled2 Possibly
  • 720P HD Video

Google is expected to make the Nexus S official before the end of the year, meaning the company has five weeks left. Google's Nexus One set the standard for Android devices in 2010, and we're hoping the Nexus S will do the same for the platform in 2011.

Last month, Google put a Gingerbread figure up on campus, which joins other treats already there. The alphabetically ordered deserts in front of the Android building represent the operating system's codenames: version 1.5 (codenamed Cupcake), versions 2.0-2.1 (codenamed clair), and version 2.2 (codenamed Froyo, short for frozen yogurt). Previously, it was believed that version 3.0 was codenamed Gingerbread, version 3.5 was codenamed Honeycomb, and version 4.0 was codenamed Ice Cream. Gingerbread was slated for late 2010, Honeycomb was expected to arrive in early 2011, and Ice Cream was expected somewhere in mid-2011, if not later.

Now, it appears that codename Gingerbread is Android 2.3 and not version 3.0. This throws the whole speculated release schedule out of whack, but in either case, we just want Google to make the official Gingerbread announcement already.

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The Key Ingredient to Effective Cancer Treatments

About 50 percent of cancer patients have tumors that are resistant to radiation because of low levels of oxygen?a state known as hypoxia. A startup in San Francisco is developing proteins that could carry oxygen to tumors more effectively, increasing the odds that radiation therapy will help these patients.

Last month, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) gave that startup, Omniox, $3 million in funding. Omniox is collaborating with researchers at the NCI to test whether its oxygen-carrying compounds improve radiation therapy in animals with cancer.

Most tumors have hypoxic regions, and researchers believe they have a significant impact on treatment outcomes in about half of patients. Tumor cells proliferate with such abandon that they outstrip their blood supply, creating regions with very low levels of oxygen. This lack of oxygen drives tumor cells to generate more blood vessels, which metastatic cells use to travel elsewhere in the body and spread the cancer.

Radiation therapy depends on oxygen to work. When ionizing radiation strikes a tumor, it generates reactive chemicals called free radicals that damage tumor cells. Without oxygen, the free radicals are short-lived, and radiation therapy isn't effective. "Radiation treatment is given today on the assumption that tumors are oxygenated" and will be damaged by it, says Murali Cherukuri, chief of biophysics in the Center for Cancer Research at the NCI in Bethesda, Maryland. "Hypoxic regions survive treatment and repopulate the tumor."

Since the 1950s, researchers have tried many ways to get more oxygen into tumors, without success. Having patients breathe high levels of oxygen prior to radiation doesn't work, and developing an agent to carry oxygen through the blood to a tumor has proved very difficult. Artificial proteins that mimic the body's natural oxygen carrier, hemoglobin, can be dangerously reactive?destroying other important chemicals in the blood. And other oxygen carriers tend to either cling to oxygen too tightly or release it too soon, before it gets to the least oxygenated regions of the tumor.

"We're hoping that since most tumors are hypoxic, we could improve the effectiveness of radiation therapy in a large number of people," says Stephen Cary, cofounder and CEO of Omniox. The company has developed a range of proteins that are tailored to hold onto oxygen until they're inside hypoxic tissue. These proteins are not based on hemoglobin, so they don't have the same toxic effects.

The company's technology comes from the lab of Michael Marletta, a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. "Most blood substitutes have failed," says Marletta, because they were based on globin proteins, which includes hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is able to work in the body because it's encased in red blood cells. Unprotected, oxygenated globin proteins react with nitric oxide in the blood, destroying the oxygen, the nitric oxide, and the protein itself.

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White House Seeks Chinese Help With N. Korea

Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, urged China to act, calling Beijing ?absolutely critical? to the international effort to get North Korea to stop its military provocations. ?It?s very important for China to lead,? Admiral Mullen said Wednesday on the ABC program ?The View.? ?The one country that has influence in Pyongyang is China.?

President Obama was preparing to make a personal telephone plea to President Hu Jintao of China, White House officials said. They added that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is likely to call China?s foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, to follow up on similar calls from other senior American officials to their Chinese counterparts.

But few analysts expect China, wary of destabilizing the North, its unpredictable neighbor, to employ its economic and military leverage in any substantial way to try to alter its behavior. And in Seoul, the South Korean government was left struggling to find the right response, as President Lee Myung-bak found himself with no clear way to proceed despite his past vows to take a hard line against the North.

Mr. Lee spent Wednesday conferring with stern-faced generals and talking on the phone with world leaders like Mr. Obama, who offered him sympathy and support over the artillery attack on Tuesday on a South Korean island, the latest in a series of provocations by the North.

Mr. Lee?s government traded threats with the North, warning of heavy retaliation should it attack again, while the North warned against even the slightest incursions into its territory.

But despite the strong words, South Korea is showing few signs of planning a more forceful retaliation to the attack on Yeonpyeong Island, which killed two civilians and two marines. While it placed its armed forces on high alert and sent F-15 fighter jets to the area, South Korea?s only military response so far came during the attack itself, when marines on the island returned fire at North Korean positions.

On Thursday, the South?s government ordered the deployment of extra troops on islands near the disputed border with North Korea, Reuters reported

On Wednesday, during an emergency session of the National Assembly, South Korea?s legislature, right-wing lawmakers called for bolder military action in response to the shelling and criticized Mr. Lee for not retaliating with greater force right away.

?North Korea?s artillery stronghold should have been destroyed three minutes after the attack,? said one lawmaker, Song Kwang-ho. ?South Korea?s air force sallied forth but did not attack. The gong sounded, and it?s too late now. Where were our resolute measures??

The impasse underscored the quandary both countries face: neither the strengthened sanctions Mr. Obama and Mr. Lee pushed after a North Korean nuclear test last year, nor the resumed aid and diplomacy Mr. Lee tried just a few months ago, have persuaded the North to cooperate with the outside world.

For that reason, both have looked to China for crucial assistance. The reclusive government in North Korea is diplomatically isolated to begin with; its sole big supporter is China.

But while China has in the past tried to influence North Korea, it has been reluctant to do so in recent months. The reason in part, analysts say, is that Beijing does not want to destabilize the North when it is in the middle of a succession process brought on by the illness of its leader, Kim Jong-il, who is believed to be making way for one of his sons, Kim Jong-un, to take over.

?Beijing doesn?t want the collapse of the regime,? said Victor Cha, an Asia expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. China, said Mr. Cha, who worked at the National Security Council under President George W. Bush, has ?made the core strategic calculation that unification of the North and the South, with the United States as an ally, is not in Chinese interests.?

That puts the Obama administration and South Korea in the precarious position of trying to press Beijing to take a stand that China?s leaders do not believe to be in China?s best interests ? a tough job under any circumstances, but particularly now, during North Korea?s succession.

Mr. Obama?s decision to accelerate the deployment of an American aircraft carrier group to the region is intended to prod the Chinese. American officials hope that by presenting Beijing with an unpalatable result ? the expansion of American maneuvers off its shores ? China will decide that pressing North Korea is the lesser of two evils.

Pentagon officials said the joint exercise in waters west of the Korean Peninsula would run Sunday to Wednesday. Military officials said the carrier George Washington had been preparing to sail from its port in Japan to join the Japanese Navy in an exercise to begin Dec. 3. After the artillery exchange between the two Koreas, the carrier was ordered to drill with South Korea?s navy before joining the Japanese.

Helene Cooper reported from Washington, and Martin Fackler from Seoul, South Korea. Thom Shanker contributed reporting from Washington.

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U.S. to Drop Color-Coded Terror Alerts

There goes another punch line.

The Department of Homeland Security is planning to get rid of the color-coded terrorism alert system. Known officially as the Homeland Security Advisory System, the five-color scheme was introduced by the Bush administration in March 2002.

Red, the highest level, meant ?severe risk of terrorist attacks.? The lowest level, green, meant ?low risk of terrorist attacks.? Between those were blue (guarded risk), yellow (significant) and orange (high).

The nation has generally lived in the yellow and orange range. The threat level has never been green, or even blue.

In an interview on ?The Daily Show? last year, the homeland security chief, Janet Napolitano, said the department was ?revisiting the whole issue of color codes and schemes as to whether, you know, these things really communicate anything to the American people any more.?

The answer, apparently, is no.

The color-coded threat levels were doomed to fail because ?they don?t tell people what they can do ? they just make people afraid,? said Bruce Schneier, an author on security issues. He said the system was ?a relic of our panic after 9/11? that ?never served any security purpose.?

The Homeland Security Department said the colors would be replaced with a new system ? recommendations are still under review ? that should provide more clarity and guidance. The change was first reported by The Associated Press.

?The goal is to replace a system that communicates nothing,? the agency said, ?with a partnership approach with law enforcement, the private sector and the American public that provides specific, actionable information based on the latest intelligence.?

The department has already begun working toward the goal of providing more specific alerts.

After a Nigerian citizen, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was accused of trying to bring down a Detroit-bound plane last Christmas with explosives, the department issued new guidelines to airports and airlines without raising the threat level.

While the system may have had limited usefulness for the American people, it proved to be comedy gold for late-night shows.

Conan O?Brien joked, ?Champagne-fuchsia means we?re being attacked by Martha Stewart.? Jay Leno said, ?They added a plaid in case we were ever attacked by Scotland.?

Meanwhile, critics of the Bush administration argued that the system was a political tool.

And even Tom Ridge, the secretary of homeland security under President George W. Bush, has raised questions. In his memoir, ?The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege ... And How We Can Be Safe Again,? Mr. Ridge said Attorney General John Ashcroft and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, pushed for an elevated terrorism level in October 2004 after a threatening tape from Osama bin Laden was revealed.

Mr. Ridge wrote that after ?a vigorous, some might say dramatic, debate, I wondered, ?Is this about security, or politics?? ? While the security level ultimately was not raised, he said the incident helped him decide that it was time to leave the government in February 2005.

Amy Wax, president of the International Association of Color Consultants North America, said ? perhaps not surprisingly ? colors could be an effective part of a warning system if tied to specific action. ?How are we going to take those instructions and apply it to our lives?? she said. ?Are we going to go to the airport, or not go to the airport??

She said the agency?s use of ?childish? primary colors like red, yellow and blue might have diluted the impact. ?Purple, orange and magenta might create a sense of something that would get attention,? she said.

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White House Seeks Chinese Help With N. Korea

Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, urged China to act, calling Beijing ?absolutely critical? to the international effort to get North Korea to stop its military provocations. ?It?s very important for China to lead,? Admiral Mullen said Wednesday on the ABC program ?The View.? ?The one country that has influence in Pyongyang is China.?

President Obama was preparing to make a personal telephone plea to President Hu Jintao of China, White House officials said. They added that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is likely to call China?s foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, to follow up on similar calls from other senior American officials to their Chinese counterparts.

But few analysts expect China, wary of destabilizing the North, its unpredictable neighbor, to employ its economic and military leverage in any substantial way to try to alter its behavior. And in Seoul, the South Korean government was left struggling to find the right response, as President Lee Myung-bak found himself with no clear way to proceed despite his past vows to take a hard line against the North.

Mr. Lee spent Wednesday conferring with stern-faced generals and talking on the phone with world leaders like Mr. Obama, who offered him sympathy and support over the artillery attack on Tuesday on a South Korean island, the latest in a series of provocations by the North.

Mr. Lee?s government traded threats with the North, warning of heavy retaliation should it attack again, while the North warned against even the slightest incursions into its territory.

But despite the strong words, South Korea is showing few signs of planning a more forceful retaliation to the attack on Yeonpyeong Island, which killed two civilians and two marines. While it placed its armed forces on high alert and sent F-15 fighter jets to the area, South Korea?s only military response so far came during the attack itself, when marines on the island returned fire at North Korean positions.

On Thursday, the South?s government ordered the deployment of extra troops on islands near the disputed border with North Korea, Reuters reported

On Wednesday, during an emergency session of the National Assembly, South Korea?s legislature, right-wing lawmakers called for bolder military action in response to the shelling and criticized Mr. Lee for not retaliating with greater force right away.

?North Korea?s artillery stronghold should have been destroyed three minutes after the attack,? said one lawmaker, Song Kwang-ho. ?South Korea?s air force sallied forth but did not attack. The gong sounded, and it?s too late now. Where were our resolute measures??

The impasse underscored the quandary both countries face: neither the strengthened sanctions Mr. Obama and Mr. Lee pushed after a North Korean nuclear test last year, nor the resumed aid and diplomacy Mr. Lee tried just a few months ago, have persuaded the North to cooperate with the outside world.

For that reason, both have looked to China for crucial assistance. The reclusive government in North Korea is diplomatically isolated to begin with; its sole big supporter is China.

But while China has in the past tried to influence North Korea, it has been reluctant to do so in recent months. The reason in part, analysts say, is that Beijing does not want to destabilize the North when it is in the middle of a succession process brought on by the illness of its leader, Kim Jong-il, who is believed to be making way for one of his sons, Kim Jong-un, to take over.

?Beijing doesn?t want the collapse of the regime,? said Victor Cha, an Asia expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. China, said Mr. Cha, who worked at the National Security Council under President George W. Bush, has ?made the core strategic calculation that unification of the North and the South, with the United States as an ally, is not in Chinese interests.?

That puts the Obama administration and South Korea in the precarious position of trying to press Beijing to take a stand that China?s leaders do not believe to be in China?s best interests ? a tough job under any circumstances, but particularly now, during North Korea?s succession.

Mr. Obama?s decision to accelerate the deployment of an American aircraft carrier group to the region is intended to prod the Chinese. American officials hope that by presenting Beijing with an unpalatable result ? the expansion of American maneuvers off its shores ? China will decide that pressing North Korea is the lesser of two evils.

Pentagon officials said the joint exercise in waters west of the Korean Peninsula would run Sunday to Wednesday. Military officials said the carrier George Washington had been preparing to sail from its port in Japan to join the Japanese Navy in an exercise to begin Dec. 3. After the artillery exchange between the two Koreas, the carrier was ordered to drill with South Korea?s navy before joining the Japanese.

Helene Cooper reported from Washington, and Martin Fackler from Seoul, South Korea. Thom Shanker contributed reporting from Washington.

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Facebook completely removes Gmail contact importing

It appears that the Facebook-Google data reciprocity war has come to a close. Facebook has removed Gmail from its list of third party e-mail providers on the "Find Friends" page, meaning that the Friends section of your Facebook account will no longer let you add a friend from Gmail.

Google says that it didn't change anything on its side so this appears to be solely Facebook's move, and it looks like the final blow. The Gmail contact import button is also gone from Friendfeed, a Facebook property since last year.

This war all started earlier this month when Google banned Facebook from accessing Gmail contact data by tweaking its the Terms of Service for its Google Contacts Data API so that websites which access Google Contacts will need to offer access to their data too. Facebook has never allowed users to export their contact information.

The social networking giant still wanted its new users to find out whether their Gmail contacts also have Facebook accounts, so it implemented a workaround: the website told its users to use a Google feature that helped them download their own data, and then instructed them to upload the file back to Facebook. In attempt to convince you not to take your contacts to the social network, Google then fought back by showing a big warning message when Facebook users came to export their contact data from Gmail.

It appears that Facebook thought this would hurt its image, so not only has it removed the instructions and direct link downloads to Gmail contacts but the company has decided to remove support for Gmail completely. The war that Google started appears to have been finished by Facebook, but there doesn't appear to be a winner. Google's goal was to get access to Facebook's data, but it did not achieve this. Facebook, on the other hand, has made it very difficult for Gmail users to add their friends (read: they have to do it manually). As we've said before, while normally the user wins when two giants compete, this particular slew of bickering has led to a loss for everyone, including the consumer.

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Windows Phone 7 growing 12 times faster than Windows Mobile did [TNW Mobile]

The latest Distimo report is out, focusing on what?s moving and shaking in the various mobile marketplaces present on today?s smartphones. This month?s instalment gives us an insight into Microsoft?s new Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, a mobile operating system that launched just over a month ago.

In the lead-up to the release of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft spent a lot of time and money trying to attract developers to its new platform and for the most part it looks to have paid off. In just over a month, the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace has grown to double the size of the Windows Marketplace for Mobile in just one month, the latter has been open for just over a year. As of November 22, there were 2,674 applications available for Windows Phone 7 smartphones whereas its older counterpart has only amassed 1,350 applications to date.

Distimo has found that Windows Phone 7 users are significantly more into gaming than Windows Mobile users and that the price of applications on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace have stayed in line with pricing on other mobile application stores, not surprising considering many developers are now producing the same apps and games across all of the popular mobile operating systems.

It was found that 57% of the 100 most popular applications are priced below $2, with other stores between 51% and 67%, except for Windows Marketplace for Mobile where only 37% are priced lower than $2.

Windows Mobile 6.x applications are the most expensive of all apps on smartphone platforms, costing $6.27 but Microsoft?s newest OS is the cheapest of all stores with an average price of $1.95.

As Windows Phone 7 handset sales continue to grow, it will be interesting to see how the marketplace evolves as the platform tries to differentiate itself from other, more popular, operating systems. Microsoft markets its devices telling consumers that its handsets allow users to see information at-a-glance and return back to normal life, so we could see a new shift in how application developers are looking to display their apps on the platform.

You can download the full Distimo report here.

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