Sometimes also called IEEE-1394, the FireWire standard allows for high-speed connections to external drives. FireWire 400 is roughly comparable to USB 2.0, and drives and ports using FireWire 800 are ...

The movie version could be titled "Showdown at the High-speed Corral." Whatever it's ultimately called, a drama is unfolding around high-speed standards for connecting computing devices, with an Intel ...

Sometimes devices -- particularly drives -- that offers both FireWire and USB 2.0 connectivity achieves a certain level of throughput when connected exclusively via FireWire, then achieves a lower ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...