Anti-virus for your mobiles

With downloads, 3G, Bluetooth, GPRS, GPS, third-party apps, etc on your mobile phones, they are becoming increasingly vulnerable to viruses from different media including your Bluetooth headsets that relay vital information from your mobiles to other snooping hardware.

Some tips to protect yourself from these viruses include putting your Bluetooth in Invisible mode (hidden or non-discoverable), using SMS Block and using anti-virus software.

Some of the important anti-virus for mobiles include Commander Mobile Anti-Virus for Symbian mobiles, Kaspersky Mobile Anti-Virus for your smartphones based on Symbian, Windows mobile and PocketPC. Also available are Bull Guard Mobile Anti-Virus for smartphones and PocketPCs, Virus Barrier X5 for your iPod and iPhones. More can be found at http://www.brothersoft.com/downloads/mobile-antivirus.html link.

Apple iPhone 3G India Launch

The much hyped Apple's iPhone 3G is set to launch in India on 22nd August, 2008 - a few days more for all those waiting with bated breadth for its India debut. With its huge fan following and record sales across the world, the iPhone has already captivated many a eye with its rollicking features and eye-catching apps.

In India, iPhone will be offered through service providers - Airtel and Vodafone. The price for the Indian market is expected to be around 20,000 to 30,000 INR. The iPhone is slated to be a 3-in-1 device - a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device (including email, web browsing and Wifi connectivity).

The iPhone will be available in 8 GB and 16 GB variants in India. Although the iPhone supports 3G speeds (upto 14.4 Mbps), the networks themselves are not equipped in India to provide faster rates. The iPhone users in India will have to be content with 2G networks. Added to that, all features may not be supported in the Indian version of the iPhone.

The Wiki page for the iPhone offers a lot of information (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone).

There are a host of other sites including the Indian blog for the iPhone which offers very useful information (http://iphoneindia.gyanin.com).

iPhone's official India web site - http://www.apple.co.in/iphone offers specific information relevant to our geography.