Aiming to spur adoption of FireWire in consumer electronics, Apple Computer said Wednesday that it will give away software that helps device makers add the high-speed port to their products. Apple's ...

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 ...

FireWire, or its more technical name, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 1394, works similarly to a universal serial bus: It enables plug-and-play devices to connect to a computer with ...

For several years, Apple Computer's FireWire has been the leading means of providing high-speed connections between computers and digital devices, but fresh competition is forcing the company and ...

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 ...

If you’re still rocking a first-generation iPod or, like me, are holding on to an old FireWire external drive for dear life, this one might hit hard: the first developer beta of macOS 26 Tahoe appears ...

While Apple Computer was happy to take home an Emmy for its FireWire technology, the company must be even more pleased that the high-speed connection is moving closer to a bigger goal--becoming ...

As our first look at Apple’s new laptops suggests, there’s plenty to talk about with the new laptops introduced this week. But it’s what’s not there in the revamped MacBook product line that has ...

The rise and fall of FireWire—IEEE 1394, an interface standard boasting high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer—is one of the most tragic tales in the history of computer ...