It's World War App out there as lawsuits and insults fly between mobile application stores and App developers, while anti-trust action looms and malware warnings abound.

South Africans have been caught up in attempts to take advantage of loopholes in the validation processes of mobile application stores to spread malware that results in phone data being quietly drained to generate advertising revenue...

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