When I first set up a Samsung Galaxy S4, I decided to run a set of benchmarks just to see how well it did. As already reported by the media, it scored more than twice as fast as its predecessor, the Galaxy S3. But it didn’t feel that much faster, if at all. It still […]

When Apple introduced the Siri voice assistant with the iPhone 4s in 2011, you may have felt it was a revolution. Up till then, voice recognition systems had been hit or miss, and often required intense training to become accustomed to your voice and speech patterns. You even had to use a special mic to […]

On Thursday, Apple released the first maintenance update for Mountain Lion, coming just over four weeks after the release of 10.8. This rapid schedule is pretty much par for the course. With every version of OS X, a fixer-upper has arrived a short time after the point-zero release. Now there have been several issues reported […]

As millions of Mac users continue to adopt OS 10.8 Mountain Lion, it’s clear most user experiences are really great. There’s, in fact, a perceptible performance boost, most probably to do more efficient graphics drivers. One test from Ars Technica indicated a modest performance increase that would reveal itself with snappier performance. That would explain […]