Washington, November 4 : A University of Maryland researcher has come up with several recommendations that can enable voters to minimize the chance of election machine-related errors.

Paul S. Herrnson, the University of Maryland political scientist, has revealed that his team’s recommendations are based on a comprehensive study of the problems voters may face while using touch screen and paper-based machines.

"In our experiments, even with the simplest ballot design and the most user-friendly machines, we found voters still cast their ballots for the wrong candidate about three percent of the time," Herrnson says.

Bangalore, Nov 4 : Chandrayaan-1, India''s spacecraft mission to moon has entered the Lunar Transfer Trajectory after the fifth and final orbit raising manoeuvre was carried out on Tuesday morning

According to ISRO spokesperson S Satish, "Chandrayaan-1 has entered the lunar transfer trajectory and is heading to an apogee of 3,80,000 KM, expected to happen on Saturday evening, the time at which the lunar orbit insertion manoeuvres are planned to be carried out."

During this manoeuvre the spacecraft''s 440 Newton liquid engine was fired for 145 seconds.

To join the league of search giants Google and Yahoo, Software giant Microsoft India has rolled out its map services, named Live Search Maps for India.

The latest offering by Microsoft consists of detailed listings and street maps for nine (9) cities, business listings across 29 cities and access to highway networks to 20,000 cities and towns.

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.