The headlines filled the airwaves and the daily newspapers. A serious SSL bug present in OS X Mavericks, iOS 6, and iOS 7 could result in Internet criminals eavesdropping or hijacking your account. To make matters worse, some suggested this bug provided an open door for the NSA to keep taps on you, although I […]

I suppose I could make correcting false or particularly ignorant stories about Apple a full-time job, and I’d still have to work overtime. So I just do it when I think it’s most appropriate. Between Daniel Eran Dilger at AppleInsider, and Macworld’s Macalope, the job is already getting done quite nicely thank you. But that […]

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 […]

From the site that brings you “The Microsoft Death Watch,” I suppose some of you might wonder just what the Night Owl is pulling? Is that title meant strictly as link or hit bait, or are there some real facts to consider? Well, let me put my cards on the table: Yes, I do see […]