Technology Industry

First Look: Gigabit Wi-Fi adapters

Low-cost 802.11ac USB adapters deliver an early taste of super-fast Wi-Fi

Intel eyes cloud servers with Broadwell server system-on-chip

The Broadwell-DE chip will be put directly on server motherboard and has some advantages and tradeoffs

Older Mac webcams can spy without activating warning light

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University created an application that can disable the LED on first-generation iSight cameras while in use

Apple’s dark tower Mac Pro ship date quickly slips to February 2014

Delay smacks of the iMac fiasco of 2012 when customers had to wait months for machines

Acer looks to cloud to revive business

Acer is focusing more on software and services with 'Build Your Own Cloud' products to revive its struggling PC business

OBAMA panel yanks NSA leash — Your MacBook’s CAMERA says ‘Hi’ — TARGET skunked by huge skim scam — LYFT growing faster than Uber

Microsoft warns customers to update to Windows 8.1 final or face ruin

June's Windows 8.1 Preview and Windows RT 8.1 Preview will die on Jan. 15, 2014

Frustrated users complain about SkyDrive problems after Windows 8.1 update

There are more than 120 active discussion threads on Microsoft's SkyDrive forum from users affected by problems with the cloud storage service

Oracle’s Q2 profits down 1 percent, revenue up 2 percent to $9.3 billion

Annual maintenance revenue rises 6 percent to $4.5 billion

Microsoft yanks second botched Surface update in as many months

Microsoft pulls the bad December firmware update for the Surface Pro 2 -- with no hint as to when a fix is coming or what afflicted customers should do