Toyota Japan told the BBC that it wants to minimise its "currency risk exposure", but has not set a date for the change-over yet.

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The Nintendo 3DS is not on the market yet, and Nintendo did not give details about its release date or price during a press conference in Los Angeles, California.

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The EU still thinks Turkey has further to go before formal accession negotiations can start, but even those member states least friendly to the Turks have been making conciliatory noises: on October 10th, the foreign minister of Greece, Turkey's traditional adversary, said he saw no reason why the EU should not set a date for accession talks with Turkey at its December summit in Copenhagen.

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He added that Samsung might try a similar approach in other European markets where Apple has successfully called for a sales ban on its products, though but he did not give an exact launch date or give details on how exactly they would be considered upgrades.

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What's more, DDS has not rested on its laurels in 2010, advancing more than 52% on a year-to-date basis.

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The group has now promised to accelerate a corporate-governance review that was announced last month, though bizarrely its completion date has not been brought forward from next year.

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After all its laboring and cajoling, the movement at the end resembled not a powerful juggernaut but a forlorn lover wondering why his date never showed up.

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