RIM has used the first day of the BlackBerry World 2011 event to announce two new BlackBerry Bold smartphones: the Bold 9900 and Bold 9930.
They're the first touch-screen BlackBerry Bold models and are also the first to run the BlackBerry 7 operating system. Both will be available from the summer.
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French telecoms company MobiWire - formerly Sagem Wireless - appears to have filed for insolvency.
Court documents show receivership ("redressement judiciaire") being pronounced on 28th April and papers being issued today, with a hearing set for 23rd June 2011.
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This year's Vodafone Mobile Clicks contest has been announced at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam, with a closing date for entries of 12th June 2011.
Almost any mobile-focussed start-up in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain or Turkey can compete for the €225,000 prize fund. The competition is open to companies that are less than three years old.
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Huawei has filed lawsuits in Germany, France and Hungary against ZTE Corporation for patent and trade mark infringement.
It claims that ZTE is infringing a number of Huawei's patents relating to data card and LTE technologies and also says ZTE has even used a Huawei-registered trademark on some of its data card products.
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Music discovery service Shazam has updated its free Android app with unlimited tagging, thanks to sponsorship from eBay.
The free Shazam app – which had previously come with five free 'tags' per month - will be unlimited until 1st January 2012.
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