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The European Commission has approved a merger between France Telecom's Orange UK and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile UK. Read the full story here.

Nokia plans to release the C5, a stainless steel handset running Symbian software and the first device from the company's new C-series portfolio, in the second quarter for $180.

Apple has filed lawsuits against HTC, the Taiwan-based maker of Google's Nexus One smartphone, accusing it of infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone.

Nokia today announced its new Cseries of phones, the first of which is the affordable Symbian S60 3rd Edition powered C5. The Cseries will focus on social networking tasks. Read the full story here.

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has revoked a law allowing authorities to hold on to email and telephone conversations for up to six months Read the full story here.

Apple has filed complaints with the International Trade Commission and the U.S. District Court in Delaware against HTC. Steve Jobs claims HTC has stolen Apple's patented inventions. Read the full story here.

In Germany today, Cisco announced a new virtual private network (VPN) solution called AnyConnect Secure Mobility Solution that is available for PC, Mac OSX, Linux, and a host of smartphone platforms. Read the full story here.

Virgin Mobile will shut off its postpaid service, which it bought from Helio in 2008, on May 25th. The company told MobileCrunch that "no customer will be automatically migrated to Sprint's postpaid service," but that "current postpaid customers are being given $50 towards the purchase of a Sprint postpaid handset with a new two-year agreement." Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile will be the cornerstone of Sprint's prepaid strategy in 2010, according to a Sprint spokesperson. Read the full story here.