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 ...

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.

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 ...

Microsoft will not support a budding peripheral-connection standard in its forthcoming Windows XP operating system, instead favoring a technology developed by Apple Computer. The Redmond, Wash.-based ...

Western Digital Corp. on Monday announced availability of its external FireWire/USB 2.0 combo hard drives, with a 7,200-RPM Western Digital Caviar hard drive inside and with available capacities of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anyone know if firewire microphones are available? Or, if they don't exist, are there usb to firewire adapters, so that you could pipe a usb microphone (like the iMic, for instance) through a firewire ...

OWC’s Mercury On-The-Go FireWire 800/400 + USB 2.0 is a Mac-ready, fast, bus-powered portable hard drive that eschews style for substance. Equipped with USB, FireWire 800, and FireWire 400 connection ...

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 ...