Mobile Computing

5 NewsRack NewsRack has proven it’s worth as a RSS feeder. By connecting to my Google Reader account, all of my RSS feeds are available. The app caches the articles for an offline read. What’s great about the app is that you can enter a category and click the unread link at the top. This [...]

Remotely lock or wipe data on Your lost or stolen iPhone A new app launching for the iPhone this week lets you find lost iPod touches, iPads and iPhones and, should you so wish, wipe the data off them remotely. It is of course every Apple iPad or iPhone owners nightmare – to realise that [...]

Intel’s family of Core i7 chips, which are among today’s most powerful desktop processors, have as many as 774 million transistors, with channels just 100 silicon atoms across. The chips have four to six 64-bit computational cores that run at clock speeds of up to 3.3 gigahertz. In volume, one costs about $1,000; correcting for [...]