In a survey of nearly 3,000 active Internet users across the country, ROMIR Monitoring found that 95% of RuNet users prefer making purchases in specialized stores vs. 23% who said they were customers of Internet stores.

Google has begun sharing advertising revenue with the makers of a popular video clip in a groundbreaking deal that could drive up the costs of competing in the fledgling video-sharing sector.

Up to 1,200 separated Australian parents, mainly wealthy fathers, risk being stopped at airport departure gates as they leave for overseas holidays unless they pay outstanding child support.

Slated to become the world’s tallest skyscraper and symbol of a city given to grandiose projects, "Burj Dubai," or Dubai Tower, is rising in parallel with the profits of its promoter, Emaar Properties.

When it comes to video games on mobile phones, simple is still best, according to a recent study from NPD Group. The study, conducted on behalf of the Mobile Marketing Association, found that fully 61% of all games downloaded to mobile phones by US mobile phone users in August 2006 were puzzle games.

The British Steam Car Challenge was conceived with the twofold aim of breaking the land speed record for steam powered vehicles as well as creating excitement in the arena of alternate fuels. It is hoped that the project will create interest among the next generation of engineers and designers to work toward cleaner and safer [...]

With the number of cell phones in use worldwide hitting 2.5 billion and rising, recycled phones are playing a growing role in the spread of wireless communications across the developing world, where land lines can be costly or unavailable.

At least one-third of British women believe so. Some 31 per cent of women who took part in a poll said that marriage was no longer relevant in modern society. More than 70 per cent said couples married too quickly without thinking carefully enough.