Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay $21 million to settle a lawsuit filed by California customers upset with the company's early termination fees. Early termination fees, charged when a wireless subscriber breaks a contract before it ends, have been in » Full text »
U.S. Air Force analyses show the F-35 Lightning II is at least 400 percent more effective in air-to-air combat capability than the best fighters currently available in the international market.The Air Force's standard air-to-air engagement analysis model, also used by
Department of Interior officials allegedly engaged in sexual relationships with workers at energy companies they were overseeing and took improper gifts.
MOSCOW, September 22 (RIA Novosti) - A London-based diamond mining company, Gem Diamonds, announced Monday it had discovered a rough diamond weighing 478 carats at its mine in Lesotho. The company said the stone was the 20th-largest diamond found anywhere
The rich harvest this year will help to ease inflationary pressures in the country as soaring food prices were the main driver of consumer inflation since the second half of 2007. At the same time, while consumers...
WEST PALM BEACH: Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a United Technologies Corp. company, is a step closer to flight testing the world's first hypersonic hydrocarbon-fueled and -cooled scramjet engine. The X-51A Scramjet Engine Demonstrator-WaveRider (SED-WR) successfully demonstrated key flight clearance objectives
Analysts prognose that the high growth of Oman real estate market, which begun more than two years ago, will continue. By 2010, the volume of demand (the volume of properties customers will be able to buy) will be equal to
Thales Suisse has unveiled a bi-sensor reconnaissance sub-system on the tactical vehicle EAGLE IV by General Dynamics / Mowag. The recce sub-system includes a tactical radar as well as an optical camera on a 10 meter mast. This sub-system will
In today's time-based and cost-conscious global business environment, tight project deadlines and stringent expectations are the norm. With sales of more than 115,000 copies, Fundamentals of Project Management has helped a lot of business people meet or exceed those standards.
According to Investment Portugal Market Review report from CB Richard Ellis consulting agency, global credit crunch led to the fall of the investment volume in all sectors of the country's property market.
On Friday, South Korean Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs announced its plans of building 5 milllion new homes until 2018 to to meet rising demand and stabilize property prices.
According to analysts of Unicredit Aton, the "bubble" in the real estate market of Russia will burst. First of all within next half year prices on the real estate in Russia will fall down at least by 10%. The reason
YAKUTSK (Russia's Far East), September 7 (RIA Novosti) - Gazprom is planning to receive licenses for the development of seven strategic gas fields in Russia by the end of September, the Russian energy giant said on Sunday. On September 2,
MOSCOW, September 18 (RIA Novosti) - A new round of consultations on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization will start on November 3, the country's top negotiator said Thursday. Russia started WTO accession talks in 1995. The latest round