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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With macOS 26, Apple has quietly ended support for FireWire. For many, it’s a footnote in a changelog. But for those who lived through the late 90s and early 2000s, FireWire was the high-speed, ...