Japan's Toshiba Corp posted a 46 percent rise in quarterly profit on Friday, boosted by booming flash memory chip demand and improved PC operations, and signalled it might upgrade its full-year forecast. Toshiba, the world's

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Germany's Software AG beat analysts' expectations for licence sales and earnings in the third quarter, thanks to strong mainframe software sales and careful cost management, it said on Friday. Germany's second-biggest software maker after SAP

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Germany's Software AG beat analysts' expectations for licence sales and earnings in the third quarter, thanks to strong mainframe software sales and careful cost management, it said on Friday. Germany's second-biggest software maker after SAP

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IBM and Google Inc are collaborating to make it easier for office workers not only to search for local documents and personal e-mail but to delve deep into corporate databases, the companies said on Friday.

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The United States hopes to reach a deal on using Bulgarian military bases next year after it closes similar talks with the Balkan state's neighbour Romania, the US ambassador to Sofia said on Friday. Sofia

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A defence lawyer for ousted Iraq president Saddam Hussein wrote to UN chief Kofi Annan Friday calling for the court trying him on charges of crimes against humanity to be moved to The Hague and

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Poland's prime minister designate scrambled Friday to cobble together a conservative-liberal coalition government, trying to tempt the smaller Civic Platform party back to the negotiating table with new tax and health reforms. "I have a

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Australia could put terrorist suspects under surveillance and possible house arrest immediately after tough new counter-terrorism laws are passed, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said. Ruddock, speaking on public television late Thursday, refused to speculate on the

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Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in North Korea Friday and seemed to immediately win a pledge from his host, dictator Kim Jong-Il, for the secretive regime to attend upcoming nuclear talks. The next and fifth

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Police in Denmark said Friday they had arrested four youths of Middle Eastern origin on suspicion of planning a terror attack in Europe, linking them to a plot uncovered in Bosnia last week. "According to

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