The second appearance of the LG VS750 handset at the GSM Global Certification Forum adds some further information regarding the handset.

It is rumoured to be a version of current LG GM750 at Verizon. The new listing shows that the LS750 will have support for Quad Band GSM networks as well as the 850MHz HSDPA band used by AT&T.

The same as the GM750, the VS750 is also expected to have Windows Mobile 6.5 and will have LG’s S-Class 3D interface. Customers will navigate with the 3 inch touchscreen and thee is also going to be a 5 megapixel camera.

3G, GPS, and Wi-Fi can also be looked forward to. The GM750 is being offered ion the UK for free, so long as users agrees to a contract that will cost the equivalent of roughly $41 per month. For more information please visit electronista.com

Turns out I can do that, Dave.

Aperion’s new HAL wireless audio dongle lets you stream any digital audio from your computer, iPod, or other device to a variety of audio equipment.

Even better, you can add additional receivers to distribute the audio to multiple systems.

All the info after the jump…

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Giving people living in nursing facilities vitamin D can reduce the rate of falls, according to a new Cochrane Review. This finding comes from a study of many different interventions used in different situations. In hospitals, multifactorial interventions and supervised exercise programs also showed benefit.

Current evidence suggests that using Doppler ultrasound in high-risk pregnancies to monitor a fetus’ health may reduce caesarean sections and the number of babies who die, according to a new Cochrane Systematic Review.

Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: Donors are gearing up to send solar-powered cell phones, streetlights and even audio Bibles to earthquake-hit Haiti.

The word is that Apple is in negotiations with Microsoft with a view to replacing Google on the iPhone will Microsoft’s Bing according to two people familiar with the situation reports an article over on business week.

Apparently the sources state that Apple and Microsoft have been in talks for several weeks. Although Apple and Google have worked well in the past, perhaps Google leap into supplying smartphones such as the Nexus One has cause Apple to become concerned.

The Nexus One is a direct rival to the iPhone after all, and as usual neither Apple nor Microsoft is offering any comment on the rumour.

Although apparently if the iPhone swaps Google for Bing, the iPhone will still use Google services such as Google Maps, Gmail, GTalk and the like, so the iPhone won’t be completely dumping Google.

This installment of Evolutionary
architecture and emergent design tackles a variety of topics related to evolutionary architecture, including the important distinction between design and architecture (and how to tell them apart), some issues that come up when you start doing architecture at the enterprise level, and the difference between static and dynamic typing in service-oriented architectures.

Baby Monitors

Apex is Monitor Audio’s new flagship line of compact speakers. It includes three models: the A10, the A40 and the AW-12.

The A10 is a stand or wall-mounted compact satellite that can be used as a mini-monitor, or with the A450 and AW-12 models in a multi-channel system.

All the info after the jump.

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Biophysicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), Germany, have published the results of single-molecule experiments that bring a higher-resolution tool to the study of protein folding. How proteins arrive at the three-dimensional shapes that determine their essential functions - or cause grave diseases when folding goes wrong - is considered one of the most important and least understood questions in the biological and medical sciences. Folding itself follows a path determined by its energy landscape, a complex property described in unprecedented detail by the TUM researchers.

Despite irrefutable proof that HIV treatments have proven benefits, AIDS denialists continue to deny their value. In a paper just published online in Springer’s journal AIDS and Behavior, Professor Myron Essex and Dr. Pride Chigwedere, from the Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative in the US, provide additional proof that withholding HIV treatments with proven benefits led to the death of 330,000 people in South Africa as the result of AIDS denialist policies. They also show that the harm has not been reversed and highlight that when denialism enters public health practice, as in South Africa, the consequences are disastrous.

The mobile world is mobilising to help out with the Haiti earthquake disaster from text donations to free calls to Haiti, and other aid and now recycling your old mobile phone can also help in the Haiti relief.

ReCellular is running a program where they will donate all proceeds from the recycling of mobile phones to the American Red Cross to aid in the Haiti relief.

ReCellular will accept all makes of mobile phone from Motorola handsets, to Samsung, from BlackBerry to the iPhone, any and all mobile phones and smartphones.

So get checking those drawers for that old mobile phone you chucked aside when purchasing a new one and recycle in aid of Haiti by visiting Phones For Haiti.

When less is more

Established just five years ago, NuVision has steadily expanded their line of premium flat panel HDTVs and are now offering this, their first LED-powered model, the 55-inch NVU55FX5LS (40- and 46-inch models are also available).

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A top scientist said Monday he had warned in 2006 that a prediction of catastrophic loss of Himalayan glaciers, published months later by the UN’s Nobel-winning climate panel, was badly wrong.

(PhysOrg.com) — Creepy, crawly spiders and bugs are just some of the unusual creatures in the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) invertebrate collections. While many find insects a nuisance, ARS scientists rely on these collections to study insect species and to find ways to protect U.S. crops and people from them.

RED TAPE: Fake fundraising efforts for the Haiti disaster are spreading like wildfire on Facebook. Dozens of fan pages have been set up, urging users to join and promising a $1 donation for each member.