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.

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 ...

Some USB and FireWire devices can cause problems with Mac OS X startup when connected prior to or during the boot process. As mentioned in our tutorial "Startup fails (particularly after a system or ...

NitroAV on Wedensday introduced two new additions to their SATAStar Series PCI-Express host adapter expansion cards. The cards have been tested to work on Power Mac G5s equipped with PCI-Express slots ...

Some (all?) DV camcorders transfer the raw DV data over Firewire but recompress the video when tranferring over USB. DV camcorders are really meant to be used with Firewire.

I haven't had an external drive since I stopped using my SCSI tower about five years ago. Since then I've tolerated the acceptable speeds of IDE for the tradeoff in large amounts of storage. As my box ...

AkumenOnline Inc. announced on Thursday its “SuperCard,” a PCI card that offers both FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 ports. This card sports three FireWire 800 ports — two external and one internal — and ...

The 1394 Trade Association announced a new standard of firewire with speed quadruples current spec of 800Mbit/s to 3.2Gbit/s . It wouldn't be named alphabetic order like they have for 1394a, 1394b to ...

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 ...

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, ...

ThinkGeek is now carrying the Firepod, an in-car cigarette adapter with both a USB and FireWire port for charging your iPod (or anything else that can be charged over FireWire or USB). Looks plenty ...

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 ...