Washington, Nov 4 : Researchers have used two million pounds of scrap iron to detoxify pollutants in industrial wastewater in Shanghai, China.

The research was led by Wei-xian Zhang, a professor of civil and environmental engineering from Tongji University in Shanghai.

The project, carried out in Shanghai, was the largest in history to use iron in an environmental application.

The iron, called zero valent iron (ZVI) because it is not oxidized, was obtained in the form of shavings or turnings from local metal-processing shops for less than 15 cents a pound.

Nokia Oyj has made announcement about the launching of seven new phones in addition to Internet services for rising markets.

The new phones include the Nokia 1202, a follow-up to Nokia’s hot model 1200, which will sell for around 25 euros and two models with e-mail support priced at 40 euros.

Growing market areas are a stronghold for the world’s major cellphone manufacturer, but it has lately seen increasing rivalry from vendors including China ZTE and Samsung Electronics.

Washington, November 4 : Computer scientists in Germany have written a piece of software that can one day enable cars to coordinate maneuvers together in dangerous situations, such as the falling over of a road construction or a sudden emergence of a child in front of the vehicle.

Thomas Batz, who developed the software together with his colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing IITB in Karlsruhe and at Karlsruhe University, says that applying the brakes or swerving the car to avoid such a situation generally proves difficult because of the presence of heavy traffic on the neighboring lanes.

New Delhi, Nov. 4 : Union Minister of State for Science and Technology and Ocean Development Kapil Sibal has said the country needs an Information Communication and Technology (ICT) revolution if it has to move forward.

Speaking at the 55th Convocation Day of the Institution of Electronics and

Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) here over the weekend, Sibal said that ICT should be recognized as the vehicle of success and growth of the nation and initiatives should be taken at political level.

This is the second time in two months that Sony’s name has been linked with overheating problems that has initiated recall on more than 100,000 batteries found in Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba and Dell Notebook Computers. “The lithium-ion batteries can overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard to consumers,” reported the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The Samsung Delve phone has been launched in US by Samsung Delve Phone Alltel Wireless. Apart from being stylish and vibrant, the phone also supports an intuitive interface. A virtual QWERTY keyboard and TouchWiz interface that supports widgets, adds to its other exciting features.

The integrated drag-and-drop widgets on the screen provided by the Samsung Delve let the users to instantly access their favorite functions directly from the screen. Other than this, the users can also change the main display screen according to the icons of the application.