Samsung Strikes Deal With Fellow Apple Patent Foe

Samsung, longtime patent foe of Apple, will partner with Swiss Federal Railways, another -- unlikely -- patent foe of Apple. While the deal itself may not be groundbreaking -- Samsung will supply the state-owned rail company with 30,000 mobile devices -- it is interesting given the litigious background that both parties have with Apple. Samsung's court battles with Apple have been documented ad nauseum -- in part because the battles themselves seem to carry on ad nauseum, in Europe and Australia and the U.S. -- and again in the U.S.