Sales of peripherals could get a boost this year as the two primary technologies for connecting external devices to PCs get turbocharged. PC makers in recent months have begun installing a high-speed ...

For a moment in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the future looked uncertain for the Universal Serial Bus (USB). At the time, it was IEEE 1394 (better known by the Apple trademark FireWire) that ...

I have a Sony HD Camcorder that only connects via Firewire. Problem is my new PC has no firewire ports and I don't really want to open it up to install a stand alone firewire card unless I absolutely ...

While Apple Computer was happy to take home an Emmy for its FireWire technology, the company must be even more pleased that the high-speed connection is moving closer to a bigger goal--becoming ...

As competition looms, FireWire backers have finalized a plan to initially double the speed--and eventually offer eight times the speed--of the connection used to link PCs to camcorders and other ...

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.

We look at the latest technology gadgets and consumer tech toys and what they can offer to business IT. In the tech sector, computer interfaces come and go in the name of progress. RS232 was ...

Orange Micro Inc. announced plans to release its OrangeCombo Notebook Card. The new laptop expansion card — compatible with the PC Card slots on PowerBooks and Windows laptops — supports both FireWire ...

A colleague has just bought a shiny new Canon MV450i camcorder. Unfortunately, his laptop doesn't have a FireWire port. I figure he should buy a PCMCIA adapter to give him FireWire ports, but is it ...

If you’ve ever traveled with your iPod and your laptop, you know that if you want to charge and sync your player, you need to pack yet another cable. MacAlly’s new Link360 line of adapters aims to fix ...