There's still time. The availability of HP TouchPads will become a reality as HP promised that a second wave of $99 table computers will be available for sale this week.
Fighting in Libya continues Wednesday, as forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi launch rockets at the rebel-controlled Tripoli International Airport.
New York survived an earthquake that shook buildings and rattled nerves on Tuesday. Now, America's largest city is bracing for assault from Hurricane Irene, taking dead aim at the metropolitan area. The latest forecast models show Irene could make landfall late Sunday at hurricane strength, packing winds of 80 miles per hour or more.
Hurricane Irene has grown stronger, and the storm is expected to further strengthen and strike the U.S. southeast coast by the weekend, possibly as a Category 3 or Category 4 storm. More than 60 million people from Florida to New York and Massachusetts could be impacted by the powerful storm.
Hurricane Irene gained strength Monday morning and is heading toward Florida after pounding Puerto Rico. Heavy rain, flooding and mudslides are possible in the Caribbean before the storm is forecast to track through parts of the Bahamas from late Tuesday night through early Friday morning. Then, the storm is likely to hit Florida, possibly impacting the state with heavy rains and damaging winds for a couple of days.
The Verizon strike is coming to an end, as 45,000 picketing landline workers end two weeks of holdouts and return to work beginning Monday night. They have not yet agreed to a new contract, but they have agreed to negotiate with the company, and the company says it will focus on the core issues at hand in talks -- which is a good thing, both parties say.
The Verizon strike is coming to an end, as 45,000 picketing landline workers end two weeks of holdouts and return to work beginning Monday night. They have not yet agreed to a new contact, but they've agreed to negotiate with the company, and the company says it will focus on the core issues at hand in talks -- and that's a good thing, both parties say.
The strike of 45,000 Verizon workers is nearing the end of two weeks. Workers haven't received paychecks and on Aug. 31 they will lose health benefits if they remain on strike.
A faction of the 45,000 Verizon employees on strike is planning on protesting a New York Department of Education meeting on Wednesday.
Verizon has threatened to pull the benefits of 45,000 striking workers on Aug. 31.
A spokeswoman for the Communications Workers of America, (CWA) representing 35,000 of a total 45,000 strikers, said the union "does not condone illegal action of any kind," as the nine-day-old strike continues to flare a number of emotions among union workers.
The strike of 45,000 Verizon land line employees continued onto its ninth day on Monday, as groups across the country picketed in front of Verizon stores. IBTimes was on the scene to capture a group of picketing Verizon workers in Lower Manhattan.
Hundreds of Verizon workers in red shirts interrupted a nine-day-old strike to place a wreath at a site in suburban New York on Monday morning, where a colleague was fatally injured on a picket line 22 years ago. The union workers began reportedly one of the biggest labor strikes in recent U.S. history on Aug. 7.
The Verizon strike of 45,000 landline employees has hit its ninth day and doesn't show any signs of stopping anytime soon, as the two sides continue to stand far apart on many issues.
The union says health care is not the issue in the Verizon strike. A local union president says Verizon is attempting union busting.
About 45,000 Verizon workers, represented by the CWA and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, have been on strike since last Sunday after talks for a new labor contract failed.
A mischief at Verizon went to an underground vault with keys and disconnected the police landline phone service. It is uncertain if the Tuesday incident was connected with the Verizon strike.
Tuesday morning, two cars of an NJ Transit derailed as it was leaving Penn Station in New York City. Commuters are experiencing extended delays, and are encouraged to take PATH trains from Hoboken to the city.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have taken high-resolution photographs of possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars, when dark, finger-like lines are seen on some Martian slopes. In the middle latitudes of the Planet's southern hemisphere.
Gabrielle Giffords returned to the House of Representatives to cast her vote on the historic debt-limit bill in Washington.
The updated version comes with a 3G-compatible Survival Mode.
Madeleine McCann, the British girl who has been missing for four years, was reportedly spotted in the northern Indian town of Leh. However, details of the spotting are unclear and the McCann family is not optimistic.
