IBT Staff Reporter

Senate Republicans emerged from a three-hour conference behind closed doors in New York's capital without comment on Monday.

Verizon is getting rid of unlimited data plans in favor of a usage based model.

Reggie Brown, whose prominence as a President Obama impersonator got a boost after a performance at a prominent GOP conference over the weekend, says he wants to star in whatever movie is eventually made about the Commander in Chief.

Affiliates of TerreStar Networks Inc say they do not owe Sprint Nextel Corp reimbursement for costs related to clearing spectrum bands because they were never licensees of the bandwidth.

NASA's supercomputer Pleiades is one of the fastest in the world ranking seventh overall in a list of 500.

Netflix Inc's online video subscribers have not had access to movies distributed by Sony Corp Pictures Entertainment for four days, due to a dispute between the studio and its pay-TV partner Starz Entertainment.

The U.S. Supreme Court threw out on Monday a massive class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the biggest ever such case, in a major victory for the world's largest retailer and for big business in general.

The St. Louis Cardinals said on Monday that All-Star first baseman Albert Pujols will be out 4 to 6 weeks after suffering a non-displaced fracture of his left radius, the forearm.

World Refugee Day is held to increase awareness of refugees globally. It is observed June 20 every year.

Alyssa Campanella, 21 years old, won the Miss USA 2011 pageant held in Las Vegas on Sunday. She was born in New Jersey and only moved to Los Angeles, California only 18 months ago.

Research In Motion lost a second marketing executive and its shares dropped 7 percent on Monday, part of a tide of bad news that has halved the BlackBerry maker's market value this year.

European planemaker Airbus bagged $14.4 billion of orders, outselling U.S. rival Boeing's $9.3 billion on the first day of a Paris Air Show where bullish sentiment reigned.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has lost its second marketing executive in four months, highlighting the difficulties RIM faces in keeping pace with innovative market leader Apple.

LightSquared is dramatically altering its plans for a high-speed wireless network because of interference problems with GPS services, in the latest setback for hedge fund manager Philip Falcone's telecom start-up.

AT&T Inc could greatly expand its network capacity for a fraction of the cost it plans to shell out to buy T-Mobile USA, Sprint Nextel said on Monday.

The Internet Center for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a plan to usher in one of the biggest changes in the history to the Internet's Domain Name System, announced on Monday. Concerns arise for the new domains' usefulness as well as security.

Anthony Weiner formally submitted his letter of resignation to Governor Andrew Cuomo Monday saying he was honored to serve the people of Queens and Brooklyn.

Rory McIlroy made some striking comments in his post-tournament press conference on neglecting to mention Tiger Woods, while mentioning other great golfers like Ben Hogan and Jack Nicklaus.

Hackers knocked offline a website run by the British police Serious Organized Crime Agency , which targets organized crime in Britain and overseas.

The two groups are teaming together to hack government institutions.

Apple products users that uses iOS operating platforms, namely the iPad and iPhone, are expected to have more Flash experience opportunity on their device which does not natively support Adobe Flash.

As Apple forges an iPhone5 capable of handling the might of Android phones from the Samsung and Motorola clan, there is another foe waiting in the corner, HTC with its lineup of superphones

An $8.4 billion lawsuit brought last week against Blackstone LP by creditors of the bankrupt Extended Stay hotel chain ranks as one of the largest ever filed over a failed leveraged buyout.

This Monday the Steps of City Hall New York staged the protest of hundred of cab drivers opposing the bill proposed by Mayor Bloomberg in Albany. The bill aims at the allowing livery car drivers to pick up passengers in certain parts of New York City, which is currently only legal for yellow cabs.

A jury took only 6-1/2 hours to convict former technology company consultant Winifred Jiau of insider trading charges on Monday after a trial that the panel's forewoman described as leaving her in despair about corruption at some hedge funds.

A federal appeals court handed a major defeat to Wall Street banks by ruling that an online news service did not misappropriate their stock research by publishing headlines about analyst upgrades and downgrades.

LightSquared, a telecom start-up backed by Philip Falcone's hedge fund Harbinger, is caving into demands from GPS providers and changing its plans to build a high-speed wireless network to avoid interference problems with GPS services.

Microchip heavyweights Micron and Hynix used their combined power to prevent Rambus' superior memory technology from becoming an industry standard, a Rambus lawyer said in court.

Good.food, learnto.salsa, glossy.lipstick -- people and companies will be able to set up a website with almost any address by the end of next year if they have a legitimate claim to the domain name and can pay a hefty fee.