Nokia unveils app plans; Apple and Samsung continue fight; Apple hacked

Eric Bianchi
July 4, 2011
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Nokia smart phonesAs they make the last preparations for their assault on the smart phone market, Nokia has announced its strategy regarding apps on its new Windows Phone devices. According to the Financial Times, the Finnish firm will work with locally based app developers and incorporate more targeted marketing into the phones being launched later this year. It’s some of the first definite information that the two have given out since tying the knot earlier on this year.

Meanwhile two of the leaders in the handset market are continuing their fight through the courts. Apple has filed another complaint against Samsung. This time Steve Jobs’ company has filed an injunction with the aim to ban Samsung from importing four devices to the US. According to FOSS Patents, Apple is claiming that four patent infringements apply to devices involved in the latest dispute – the Galaxy S 4G, Infuse 4G, Droid Charge and Galaxy Tab 10.1.

The injunction is quite a move by Apple. Depending on which way the decision goes, the company will either be in a much stronger position of have its law suit significantly weekend. One thing is for sure – they must be feeling very threatened by Samsung and/or Android to be going this far.

Apple has also become the latest victim of the Anonymous group of Hackers. @AnonymousIRC tweeted, “Not being so serious, but well (…) #Apple could be target, too. But don’t worry, we are busy elsewhere,” whilst adding a link to a file containing usernames and passwords that they had obtained from the Apple server they hacked. Not all a bed of roses over at Apple then!

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