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Finland’s foreign minister is facing calls for his resignation after a tabloid newspaper published a suggestive text message he had sent to an erotic dancer.

COMMANDER Communications has sold ICT firm Nexon back to its founders just over a year after acquiring the company.

CIVIL servant Mark Thompson wants to turn the British Broadcasting Corporation into an empire on which the sun never sets.

Top Australian neurosurgeon says the world’s heavy reliance on mobile phones could be a greater threat to human health than smoking and even asbestos.

NATIONAL E-Health Transition Authority chief executive Ian Reinecke has quit his post amid speculation over the organisation’s future role in e-health developments.

Consulting and services provider Accenture yesterday announced its second-quarter results for the three months ended February 29. Net revenue was $5.61bn, up 18% in US dollars and up 11% in local currency. Operating income was $638.1m in local currency, up 14% on last year. Operating margin was 11.4%.

Fujitsu Australia has launched a one-button scanner for Apple Macs. Fujitsu said it is the first model in the Mac environment to create searchable PDF files from paper documents.

AT&T and Qualcomm subsidiary MediaFLO have announced a mobile television service featuring live programming to be launched in May 2008.

EMC has collaborated with IP Video Security provider Verint to launch new professional services for enterprises to improve on-site security by combining user authentication, backup, and content-management capabilities with IP video surveillance.

Open Source software company Red Hat has reported an increase of 8% in net profit to $22m for the fourth quarter 2008, on revenue up 27% at $141.5m. For the year, the company reported net profit of $76.7m compared to $59.9m for the year ended February 2007, on revenue up 31% at $523m.