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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

iTunes 1.1 comes with some important warnings in its Read Me file, for those using USB or FireWire CD-RW drives. In particular: You may not be able to use third-party ...

At the NAMM music show on Friday Yamaha began shipping two new mixers, one FireWire-based, the other USB. The first mixer, the FireWire-based N Series is equipped with Cubase Advanced Integration, ...

I just bought a ME-320 Firewire/USB 2.0 5.25" enclosure for a CD-RW of mine. I'm having a problem getting it to work with my iBook though. First off, my burner is unsupported but I'll hack around with ...

The Mac Pro is about due for another update, and while Steve Jobs has pretty explicitly ruled out Blu-Ray support in any foreseeable Mac refreshes, the sometimes-reliable French rumor site Hard Mac ...

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, ...

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 ...

These slim Apricorn Aegis 1.8-inch drives are both USB and Firewire compatible, making them suitable for Macs and PCs. They’ve got a shock mounting system and only weigh 3.5 ounces, so taking it on ...