The HTC Wildfire was already making big time news in the European markets and now it is coming ot the Indian markets as well. The phone is powered with the Android version 2.1 and contains a host of amazingfeatures. The phone is said to be a lighter version of the HTC Desire and borrows some of its design elements from the Google Nexus One. Also, similar to HTC HD mini Windows mobile handset, the Wildfire is a low cost alternative for the original handset.

HTC Wildfire incorporates 3.2-inch capacitive touch screen display with Multi-touch input method, Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate & HTC Sense UI. The phone flashes excellent body size of 106.8 x 60.4 x 12 mm. The camera quality of the phone is superb and features a 5 MP camera with Auto focus , tap to focus and LED flash. The phone features a 512MB ROM and 384MB RAM. The phone comes with a MicroSD card slot that is expandable up to 32 GB and serves as the secondary memory for the phone. The HTC Wildfire has integrated Google search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Gtalk, Picasa applications and Facebook, Flickr, Twitter applications to communicate with friends and real world.

HTC wildfire supports 3G and GSM networks in Europe and Asian countries. Other features of HTC Wildfire include 3. 5mm headphone jack, Micro USB port, Bluetooth with A2DP, WLAN, A-GPS, up-to 32GB support via card slot, multi-touch enabled web-photo browser, music player, FM radio, etc.

Don’t expect this Android phone to any serious 3D gaming but at least you get a speedy handset for normal day to day use. This is not suited for portable gaming but rather as a mobile internet device that will keep you connected to the web 24/7. Well to be very honest the phone is not the best available in the market and the 320 x 240 resolution is nothing short of disappointing however the price tag that comes along with the phone helps to cover up for the poor resolution and just about puts Wildfire in the budget smartphone division with 15000 on the board.

Launching the smartphone now seems to be a good move by the company as the success of the earlier HTC phones has settled pretty well in the country and the young successors of the country must be looking for something similar to what their elders have got. Just as the older crowd gets used to their nice, fancy new HTC handsets, their kids will be finishing the year at school, and eagerly waiting for their graduation presents. Seems excellent marketing strategy doesn’t it?

But the question still remains of acceptance how does the Indian consumer accept another smartphone from HTC whether the consumer likes he looks and form factor of the phone and most importantly can he connect it to the work that he does. Whatever be the case the company seems to be well prepared as they have even planned the release of the phone in Australia with the Telstra service provider and definitely has a backup option.

How the phone fares in the Indian market can only be guessed after the phone reaches the Indian mark. But before that happens you can get a feel of the phone in the photos given below:

With the ever increasing threats of malwares, worms and viruses on the web which are targeted for Windowsoperating system every year, it becomes nothing but a necessity to protect the system against such risks. Thus, similarly, the Windows 7 operating system needs to be protected against such threats and here is a list of the top five windows 7 anti-virus software for you to refer to in case of the necessity of such protection.

Avast Windows 7 Anti-Virus

This is considered to be one of the best anti-virus software available as it is balanced on the whole. The highly preferred attributes of this software include the ease of use, background working capability, least use of CPU resources and changeable skins.

Also incorporated with the anti-spyware protection, this software is available for free. On the dark side, this software might require manual update of virus definitions as sometimes automatic updates are not detected.

AVG Anti-Virus for Windows 7

One of the most used anti-virus software of the world, the AVG Anti-Virus software has an user interface which is both easy to use and navigate, and is provided with a lot of options as to how the anti-virus should behave when running in the background. Other important facets of this software include the anti-spyware, email scanner and a resident shield.

Even, the user is provided with the capability of tuning the speed of scanning, thus controlling the amount of CPU resources being used. One of the drawbacks of this software include the simultaneous running of two anti-spyware programs when using AVG, and this may prove to be quite heavy for the PC.

AVIRA Anti-Virus software

This is free anti-virus software and proves to be as efficient as the Avast or AVG, if not more. Some of the main attractions of this software include the smooth running in the background, automatic update works, and the user-friendly interface. The users are also given the capability of customizing the behavior of the anti-virus software while scanning, and the level of protection. A detailed report of the scans and updates are also given to the user.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

This anti-virus software is not a freeware and costs around 60 dollars, though a 30-day free trial is available. This software features to be a mixed-bag, providing both merits and demerits. The software lacks some of the valuable features compared to other contemporary anti-virus software and does not incorporate the use of anti-virus in the Safe Mode.

On the brighter side, the anti-virus engine provided is much better, and provides blazing speed when compared to the other free anti-virus software. The customers are also allowed to send their PC’s scans for analysis for better protection, with an additional cost of $20.

Norton Anti-Virus from Symantec

This is a good anti-virus but it does not come close in performance to AVG or Avast. Some of the attractions of this software include the sleek user-interface design, 24/7 virus definition updates, array of security tools and the free technical support provided to the users. An annual subscription fee is charged for this software.

If you are looking for anti-virus software then you must carefully analyze your requirements before concluding on the selected software, because ultimately it will reap results.

Although the Windows users are the most satisfied in and around the world but most of the tech frenzy always like to try out something different on their machines one such move these days has been running the Mac OS X on a windows machine. We today try to install the Mac OS X on a machine running aWindows 7 using an emulator called the Sun VirtualBox. VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, originally created by German software company Innotek GmbH, purchased by Sun Microsystems, and now developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products. It is installed on an existing host operating system; within this application, additional guest operating systems, each known as a Guest OS, can be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment.

Let us begin by accumulating the various products that are required to complete our installation. We will need the Mac OS X image, also we will need the Sun VirtualBox emulator which can be downloaded fromVmWare.com website and the Intel and AMD processor virtualization utility. Once we are done with the accumulation of the different utility we begin with the actual installation process.

1. The image uploaded with the above link is a WinRAR Zip file which has to be unzipped using the same program. Now, open VirtualBox. Create a new virtual machine with the operating system set as BSD having version – FreeBSD. Also, Mother Board Extended Features – Select Enable IO APIC, in Processor Extended Features -Select Enable PAE/NX

Note: if you are unable to see the acceleration tab on your screen this means that the motherboard BIOS is incapable of hardware virtualization If this is not available on your computer, then you can use same Mac OS X image with VMware Player 3 to run Leopard 10.5.5 on X 86 computers.

2. You need to allocate the memory of 1GB on your hard disk that will be used by the virtual machine and also you can keep the hard disk space at a minimum of 30 GB that will be used to store data that your virtual machine will work on. Here we go; we are ready to start Mac on VirtualBox. Don’t start the virtual machine, because it will not work now. After configured following settings, close VirtualBox application completely and change the XML file. Add the string mentioned in below step.

3. If Mac booting screen is stuck with Mac logo on VirtualBox for sure there is something wrong with hardware virtualization. However if you are able to get through that then the admin password with for Mac OS X Vmware image is Xelabo which will be required to login and start using the virtual machine.

This article explains how to install Mac OS X 10.5.5 Leopard on VirtualBox 3.1.4. No additional hardware or software needs to be purchased for this installation. However, this method is completely for testing purpose and not to use permanently or in production environment.

Indian mobile operator , Bharti Airtel, is looking to launch Apple’s iPhone 4 in India in September or October, Chief Executive Officer for India and South Asia Sanjay Kapoor said on Monday.

The Rupees symbol will not be available on keyboards for another two years. However, Foradian Technologies has developed a font called the Rupee font that users can download for free. The company basically made a vector image of the rupee symbol and mapped the key right above the tab button with it. The reason that key was chosen is because most users and programmers don’t use that key.

To download the font, go here.