Apple Computer has almost single-handedly succeeded in turning USB into an accepted interface standard. Sony, Apple, and others are currently making FireWire into the industry standard for multimedia.

Intel demonstrated a working version of USB 3.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. Here's why it will make eSATA and FireWire obsolete. When USB 3.0 is expected to hit the market ...

Various FireWire and USB devices can cause indefinite stalls in the Mac OS X startup routine when connected prior to or during the the boot process. In many cases the stalls can be obviated by simply ...

I've been using USB 2.0 to my external Seagate HDD and a buddy said I'm all wet - that Firewire is way faster. <BR><BR>Speed is good. Is firewire worth the cost of a cable to save time for regular ...

The Mac Pro is about due for another update, and while Steve Jobs has pretty explicitly ruled out Blu-Ray support in any foreseeable Mac refreshes, the sometimes-reliable French rumor site Hard Mac ...

The D-Link High Speed USB 2.0 and FireWire Combo PCI Adapter accomplishes several things at once. First, it adds both USB 2.0 and FireWire ports to the motherboard. Second, because it's a combo card, ...

I have an external hard drive onto which I would like to install linux. I also have a laptop with a broken ide controller which has no hard drive. I would like to boot from a floppy disk or cdrom, and ...

1394 Trade Association (TA) will develop a low-cost high-performance standard called VersaPHY, which promises to spur use of the connectivity technology in a new generation of simplified applications.

A new combination USB 2.0/FireWire hub from D-Link with four USB 2.0 ports and three FireWire ports. It’s not clear from the press release where on the PC the DFB-H7 hub connects to, but we’re ...

The OXUF924DSa and DSb from Oxford Semiconductor provide external storage designers with a bridge between SATA disks and USB2.0, FireWire400, FireWire800 and External SATA ports. These integrated ...

Sonnet Technologies has announced a FireWire/USB Express/34 card for Windows notebook computers that will also be compatible with MacBooks when Mac OS X v10.5 “Leopard” ships in October. It costs ...

These slim Apricorn Aegis 1.8-inch drives are both USB and Firewire compatible, making them suitable for Macs and PCs. They’ve got a shock mounting system and only weigh 3.5 ounces, so taking it on ...