Moscow  - President Dmitry Medvedev has announced a comprehensive modernization of Russia's armed forces and its nuclear weapons, Russian media reported Saturday.

By 2020, there would be complete overhaul of the nuclear deterrent, Medvedev said at the conclusion of military exercises in the Urals.

The plans include a new generation of nuclear submarines and cruise missiles, as well as better coordination of the country's missile defence system with reconnaissance satellites in space.

Beijing  - China's first spacewalk got under way Saturday as astronaut Zhai Zhigang slipped out of the Shenzhou VII spacecraft and said, "I feel well."

Zhai, the commander of the three-man mission, waved to cameras broadcasting the event live in China as he left the craft's orbital module at 4:39 pm (0839 GMT).

"I am here greeting the Chinese people and people of the whole world," the astronaut told mission control in Beijing.

London, Sept 27: Florian Seiche, HTC (High Tech Computers) chief, the designers of Google's G1 phone, has claimed that with its high-tech features, the new phone could make the personal computer obsolete.

Florian Seiche, whose company designed Google's answer to the iPhone, believes the personal computer will soon join the ‘dodo’.

Seiche insisted that the phone is set to transform the way we think about the internet, and could even kill off the PC.

Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched the G1 phone amid a frenzy of excitement in New York this week.

London, Sept. 27 : The personal details of 50,000 current and former RAF servicemen have been stolen from a military base.

It has been quite sometime, since two giants, Samsung and Armani have been working together to create unique gadgets. Earlier they worked together to create an LCD TV and a mobile phone. And recently, the two informed about their joint venture, under which they have created the M75500 mobile phone, also called the Night Effect. 

This handset holds a very slim candy bar like appearance and is engraved with Emporio Armani’s name with blue, red and green enlightening light to attract everybody’s attention at night. 

New Delhi, Sept 26 : Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) today celebrated its 66th Foundation Day with great enthusiasm.

Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Kapil Sibal gave away the CSIR Young Scientist Awards 2008 and the CSIR Technology Awards 2008 at a function organized in New Delhi today to mark the occasion.

In his address, the Minister called upon the scientific community to bring science out of laboratories in the form of solutions to the day-to-day problems of the people.