The Technology newsbucket: Mac App store, games ire, Nokia wins?, and more

Games developers see too much of this. Photo by indi.ca on Flickr. Some rights reserved
A quick burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team

The Mac App Store isn't for today's Mac developers >> Marco.org
I get a sense that the Mac App Store - which will let people buy apps to be downloaded directly onto their Macs, just like iPhone apps to iPhones - is a glimpse of the computer experience of the future. Think of how much safer Windows machines could be if that applied. Though, also, consider the antitrust headaches Microsoft would have in operating such a store. So who would operate it?

Games developers criticise David Cameron over tax breaks >> The Guardian
This was Thursday: "Video games developers criticised David Cameron today for failing to implement tax breaks that could create 3,500 jobs and bring the Treasury £200m over five years."

How a tax break could affect the UK gaming industry >> Wired
And this was in April: "Alistair Darling's announcement of a tax incentive for UK videogame developers came as a welcome surprise for the scores of British creatives, and was a victory for TIGA -- The Independent Games Developers Association -- which had been campaigning for such a tax break."

Facebook and adult social networking: A dream that's all wet >> ZDNet
Answer this honestly: "How many times have you been stuck in the rat's maze of Facebook profile settings and thought, 'This is such a turn-on. I can't believe that no one has made a porn version of Facebook, because surely this pleasure must be taken to the next level'?"

Super-fast broadband unlikely to reach all of East Lancashire >> Lancashire Telegraph
The reality of fibre rollout: it would cost £57m to get it to the whole of the county, but 16% of residents won't have it by 2015.

FTC Names Edward W. Felten as Agency's Chief Technologist >> Federal Trade Commission
What, Ed Felten as in Freedom To Tinker? Yes, him, chief technologist of the Fedetral Trade Commission, "protecting America's consumers". He explains: "My main role at the FTC will be to provide advice on technology policy issues."

Nokia has already won the developers battle >> PanicCode
By moving to Qt, since you ask: "There are a lot of things that could go wrong with this new strategy, but on paper it looks very good. Developers will have one SDK, working over Linux, Mac or Windows, to make desktop or mobile apps with a Javascript like language."

US Patent database up and running >> O'Reilly Radar
Rather than selling it, as before, the US government is now making it available for free download: "Google now has 20 tbytes available for download, Jon Orwant tells me he has another 50 tbytes on the way. The Patent Database is the only database explicitly called out by the founding fathers in the U.S. Constitution and it is good to see that database finally become available."

Who's suing who in mobile >> Interface Digital Labs
In Flash, see who's suing whom in the smartphone wars. This meme is getting better every day.

Data visualisation of mobile lawsuits >> Interface Digital Labs
The blogpost explaining how and why the above was done. Lovely.

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