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 ...

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 ...

When I was growing up in the '90s I always read about this mythical connection called FireWire. It was a connection mainly found on Macs, and I had never even seen a Mac in person until I was an adult ...

The 1394 Trade Association is touting the success of FireWire ports , saying that the technology has reached the 2 billion ports mark. But that puts it far behind its competitor, USB. Don Reisinger ...

If you used a Mac in the late 1990s or early 2000s, chances are you plugged something into your computer with a FireWire cable at some point. The port looked nothing like the USB connectors most ...

I bought a Panasonic PV-GS19 miniDV camcorder this morning at Sears (it replaces a POS Sony TRV-280 that went back) and I noticed that both it and the Sony outputted 320x240 resolution DV clips when ...

Most modern Macs—except for the MacBook Air and some MacBook models—offer both FireWire and USB connections. When shopping for an external hard drive, then, you have many options for something that ...

PC Magazine has posted an extensive comparison of FireWire and USB 2.0, two peripheral connectivity technologies vying for the attention of PC users. The results are ...

Wow, I didn’t even know this would be possible (although I’m far from a cable signaling expert) — Japanese peripheral manufacturer Pixela has released a new FireWire to USB 2.0 cable that allows raw ...

Apple's new MacBook and MacBook Pro models contain more innovation than just their case design, graphics, and the improved accessibility of their internals. Here's a look at other details related to ...