by Hugo Ottolenghi | Jun 4, 2010 | AppsLawBlog
The explosion in smart phone apps and growing number of users has created an opportunity for criminals to write apps that steal IDs, bank accounts and the like. When they succeed in getting unsuspecting users to download their malicious software, who should pay the...
by Hugo Ottolenghi | May 4, 2010 | AppsLawBlog
That’s the question floated when addressing the company’s ban of Flash for iPhone and iPad apps. CEO Steve Jobs says that Flash poses a security risk, closed and inappropriate for use on mobile devices. Adobe says that Jobs is being too controlling. The...
by Joel Rothman | Mar 22, 2010 | AppsLawBlog
It seems as though almost every day a new suit is filed by or against the largest cell phone makers. The Mac Observer reports that in the first week of March 2010, a patent infringement lawsuit was filed by a rather small company, SmartPhone Technologies LLC, against...
by Joel Rothman | Mar 15, 2010 | AppsLawBlog
Facebook will soon add a not-so-surprising feature: location updates. While not a novel service, it has generated controversy over its potential for abuse. The New York Times reports that Facebook plans to unveil updates at next month’s F8, the Facebook...
by Joel Rothman | Mar 14, 2010 | AppsLawBlog
The New York Times Sunday Business Section on March 14, 2010, chronicles the epic battle of Apple vs. Google for dominance of the mobile applications market. The previous week, Apple filed a lawsuit against HTC, claiming the Taiwan-based phone maker infringed on 20...
