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Appolicious - Dell (DELL) will start selling its first Android phone this week, while Amazon (AMZN) is looking to hire workers for its gadget lab. Also in today's App Industry Roundup, we have our suspicions as to why iPhone owners have more sex than Android buyers.

With their wispy and colorful creations, twin sisters Christine and Margaret Wertheim have turned the spotlight on threatened corals. See the sea simulacra for yourself at New York's Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

After almost half a century of courting undiscerning octogenarians with somnolent sedans, Buick is back with a revamped portfolio. We’d like to pay tribute to the storied marque's comeback by highlighting the cars that defined the brand for what it once was -- a leader in style and technology.

Three Americans take off in a balloon from Presque Isle, Maine. They will land in a field north of Paris 137 hours, 6 minutes later, the first people to cross the Atlantic in a balloon.

Reuters - Saudi Arabia on Tuesday ordered at least one Research In Motion's BlackBerry smartphone service to be blocked as of Friday, becoming the latest government to threaten to curb the device on security grounds.

Ben Patterson - Remember the ruckus that ensued after Apple acquired innovative music-streaming site Lala last year? Word at the time was that Apple could be close to launching an in-the-cloud version of iTunes, complete with a digital locker for all your music. Since then, however ... nothing, and the latest chatter has it that Apple’s streaming media plans are still circling the airport.

AP - Saudi Arabia is ordering its mobile operators to halt BlackBerry services throughout the kingdom this week, heightening tensions between device maker Research in Motion Ltd. and governments demanding greater access to data sent on the phones.

Reuters - A U.S. federal appeals court said on Tuesday AOL Inc cannot block Advertise.com Inc from using that name on the ground its similarity to its own Advertising.com mark will confuse Internet users.

AP - THE CHALLENGE: The BlackBerry's grip on the corporate phone market may be slipping, as users are tempted by the iPhone and Android phones.

Two key features of Android 2.2 -- tethering and hotspot -- will be missing in the Motorola Droid. Verizon says the device isn't capable of supporting these, but some Android developers say that's not true.

At 5:30 on Sunday morning, the Chinese government fired a Long March 3A rocket into orbit. It carried a navigation satellite — the fifth in a planned constellation of 30 or more Beidou orbiters that Beijing hopes will soon rival America's Global Positioning System.

AP - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. reported stronger results than it had forecast, boosted by solid sales of games such as "2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa," "Scrabble" for Apple Inc.'s iPad and add-on content for older titles.

Despite being federally protected, the California sea otter's numbers are going down again, and no one is sure why.

AP - BlackBerrys still fly off the shelves. They still convey the message that their owners mean business — that they're people who are important enough to need e-mail access all the time.

Microsoft's Bing Maps now offers an OpenStreetMap data layer. Bing users can download the new feature from the App Gallery that makes the maps from the popular open source project fully searchable in the browser.

Though older blue-footed booby nestlings relentlessly peck junior ones and snatch away the biggest share of food, a persecuted younger chick often succeeds in life as well as its tormentor does.

Reuters - A newly discovered vulnerability in the software that runs Apple Inc's iPad and iPhone could allow hackers to enslave the popular mobile devices, three security firms said on Tuesday.

Reuters - Entertainment mogul Simon Fuller's 19 Management said on Tuesday it signed up Universal Music Group as the label for artists in future seasons of its hit TV show, American Idol, unceremoniously dumping its Sony Music partner of the last nine seasons.

NewsFactor - Amazon.com says it's temporarily sold out of the new 3G and Wi-Fi-only models of the online retailer's new Kindle e-readers, which were announced just last week. Though the Kindle has been Amazon's best-selling item for two years running, the company wasn't prepared for the flood of orders for the new devices priced at $189 and $139.

AP - Computer hackers have begun targeting power plants and other critical operations around the world in bold new efforts to seize control of them, setting off a scramble to shore up aging, vulnerable systems.