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A cyber cold war waged over the world's computers threatens to become one of the biggest threats to security in the next decade.

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday oversupply of memory chips used in personal computers was expected to ease in 2008 as growing demand for portable gadgets prompts a shift in production to flash chips.

T-Mobile's parent company in Germany has appealed a court ruling that would forbid tying customers into a two-year contract when they by one of Apple's iPhones, according to a report.

Shares in Malaysian state-controlled carmaker Proton sank to a near seven-year-low on Wednesday, a day after the government ended talks with Germany's Volkswagen over a possible alliance.

Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile will allow customers in Germany to buy Apple's iPhone without having to sign a T-Mobile contract after rival Vodafone obtained a court injunction against it.

Deutsche Telekom's mobile unit T-Mobile is coming under fire from competitors over its exclusive sales deal for Apple's iPhone in Germany.

Stock futures fell on Monday after Goldman Sachs added Citigroup Inc to its sell list, citing prospects for more credit losses at the No. 1 U.S. bank.

German sports car maker Porsche and Volkswagen may cooperate further, German newspaper Automobilwoche reported on Saturday.

When movie director Roger Spottiswoode ventured to China two years ago to scout locations for The Bitter Sea, a drama set in the 1930s, he was surprised at the lack of suitable buildings from the period.

A Dutch court dismissed Nokia's patent-licensing case against mobile technology provider Qualcomm Inc on Wednesday, saying its jurisdiction was limited and that Nokia's complaint was too broad to give a reasoned decision.

UniCredit, Italy's biggest bank, said on Wednesday third-quarter net profit rose an underlying 19 percent to 1.122 billion euros ($1.6 billion), although its investment banking profits were hit by the credit markets crisis.

Tom Cruise's Lambs got slaughtered at the worldwide box office.

The European Commission will propose a shake-up of European telecoms rules on Tuesday that would give both Brussels and national regulators greater powers over the sector.

Sanctions are not the way to resolve the deepening international confrontation over Iran's nuclear ambitions, China said on Tuesday, while also urging Tehran to be more compromising.

The European Union's top diplomat and Iran's chief nuclear negotiator agreed on Sunday to hold a new round of talks on Tehran's disputed atomic ambitions by the end of this month, Iranian news agencies said on Sunday.

Hundreds of German Apple fans braved rain and wind before dawn to be among the first in Europe to get their hands on an iPhone but the arrival of the year's hottest consumer gadget passed most Germans by.

The U.S. trade deficit narrowed unexpectedly in September to its lowest since May 2005 as exports set a record, according to U.S. Commerce Department data on Friday.

Ballard Power Systems, the Vancouver producer of hydrogen fuel cells, said it agreed to sell its automotive-fuel-cell business to Daimler AG of Germany and Ford Motor Co. of Dearborn, Mich. As payment, Ballard will receive the 34.3 million of its shares that Daimler and Ford hold.

Dutch financial group ING will buy a 25.2 percent stake in Thailand's TMB Bank, TMB officials said on Wednesday after the money-losing Thai bank rejected a last-minute rival bid.

At least seven people died when a gunman opened fire at a school in southern Finland on Wednesday, hours after a video was posted on YouTube predicting a school massacre.

General Motors Corp said on Tuesday it would book a $39 billion non-cash charge in the third quarter, reflecting the risk of a slower turnaround that could keep it from claiming expected future tax credits in key markets.