[MyAppleMenu] Dec 29, 2010

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**** App Store Features “New Year, New You” Titles <http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/12/app-store-features-year-titles/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AppAdvice+%28AppAdvice%29>
Bryan Wolfe, AppAdvice

**** Interval Re-files Lawsuit Against Apple, Facebook, Google <http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/12/28/interval.resubmits.dismissed.lawsuit/>
Electronista

Interval Licensing took a second shot at its dismissed lawsuit with an updated filing. The Paul Allen-owned company's new complaint still accuses Apple, Facebook, Google, Netflix and others of infringing on e-commerce patents but now includes specific, claimed examples of how the companies allegedly copied Interval's technology.

**** iPhone’s Group Messaging In iOS 4 <http://shawnblanc.net/2010/12/iphone-group-messaging/>
Shawn Blanc

**** Share Your Favorite iTunes Playlists <http://www.macworld.com/article/156612/2010/12/itunes_playlist_share.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

**** TUAW's Daily App: Foodspotting <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/29/tuaws-daily-app-foodspotting/>
Mike Schramm, TUAW

You can browse pictures of various foods near your location, and then from one of those, follow the user who took the picture, find out about the restaurant it was taken at, or look for other examples of the same dish from other restaurants. The interface is fast and slick, and especially if you're in a place where there are plenty of restaurants to try (I'm right in the middle of Los Angeles), odds are that you'll find something good to go taste.



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**** Sofia Coppola <http://www.slate.com/id/2278628/>
Nathan Heller, Slate

You either love her or hate her. Here's why.

**** Silverchest <http://www.slate.com/id/2279277/>
Carl Phillips, Slate

**** How To Name A Dinosaur <http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=how-to-name-a-dinosaur-2010-12-27>
David Orr, Scientific American

The name a dinosaur is given is subjected to the same scrutiny as the description of its skeletal remains. It's a minefield, and there are many ways the unwary can go astray.

**** Escape Route <http://boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/12/26/escape_route/?page=full>
Avi Steinberg, Boston Globe

The issue of reading is only one dimension of the question, and not necessarily the salient one. The crucial point of a prison library may not be its book catalog: The point is that it is a library.



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**** Should ISPs Reveal Their Average Broadband Speed? <http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/12/29/should-isps-reveal-their-average-broadband-speed/>
Xavier Lur, Yahoo!

On paper, they advertise maximum broadband speeds. But in reality, we are getting half of that — at best. And when the government recently suggested that ISPs come clean about true average download speeds, they chose not to scrap their original way of advertising broadband speeds.

**** Development Without Democracy? <http://www.cipe.org/blog/?p=7162>
CIPE

History shows that such good “managers” are hard to find when given unchecked political power – it’s much more likely that unchecked power will lead to corruption, cronyism, and economic stagnation rather than economic growth and development. The more relevant story to watch from China and Singapore is that economic liberalization and a high level of integration with the world economy can be catalysts for broader change.

**** Singapore Workers’ Nominal Wages For Q3 2010 Dropped 12.9% <http://theshentontimes.com/2010/12/29/singapore-workers-nominal-wages-for-q3-2010-dropped-12-9/>
The Shenton Times

If our workers are being forced to scrimp and save for more rainy days ahead, will we end up seeing slower economic growth in the coming year?

**** Singapore Casino To Launch World's First ArtScience Museum <http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL3E6NT08J20101229>
Nopporn Wong-Anan, Reuters

Singapore's Marina Bay Sands will open the world's first ArtScience museum in February, the latest attraction at its $5.5 billion gambling complex built by U.S. casino giant Las Vegas Sands.

**** Electricity Tariffs To Go Up Next Year <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1101719/1/.html>
Mustafa Shafawi, Channel NewsAsia

After falling this quarter, electricity tariffs for households will go up by 3.3 per cent for the first three months of next year.

**** ICA To Implement Double-barrelled Race Options <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1101720/1/.html>
Mustafa Shafawi, Channel NewsAsia


>From Saturday, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) will implement the registration of double-barrelled race options for Singaporean children born to parents of different races.


It gives parents who are of different races further flexibility and choice to decide how their child's race should be recorded.

**** MOM Warns Maid Agencies <http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20101229-255317.html>
AsiaOne

14 employment agencies have been warned by the Manpower Ministry (MOM) for flouting the rule and bringing in underage maids to work in Singapore. Four of the agencies were also issued demerit points, which put them at risk of losing their licence.